Thailand DTV (Destination Thailand Visa): The 5-Year Remote Work Visa
Digital nomad & remote work
Thailand
🇹🇭 Thailand
Who it’s for
Remote workers and freelancers (working for employers or clients outside Thailand), and people joining recognised activities such as Muay Thai, Thai cooking or medical treatment.
Validity
5 years, multiple entry (not renewable — apply again afterwards)
Each stay
Up to 180 days, extendable once by 180 days in Thailand
Savings
500,000 baht (about US$14,500), ideally held for around 3 months
Fee
10,000 baht, paid in local currency at the embassy handling your application
Checklist
Requirements
- Age 20 or over
- Remote work for an employer or clients outside Thailand (contract or freelance portfolio), or enrolment in an approved activity
- Savings of at least 500,000 baht in your own name
- Apply online from outside Thailand (thaievisa.go.th) — paper applications ended in January 2025
Costs
- 10,000 baht visa fee per person
- Skylite Visa service fee — confirmed after your free eligibility check
Timeline
Online applications are typically decided within a few weeks; embassies can ask for more documents.
How Skylite Visa helps
We handle it
We check you qualify, prepare your documents and submit the application, then track it to a decision.
Straight answers
Questions
- Can I apply from Pakistan?
- Applications are made online through Thailand’s e-visa system, handled by the Thai mission covering where you live. We prepare and file it with you.
Official source: Thailand e-Visa (Ministry of Foreign Affairs) · last checked 9 October 2026. Rules change — we re-confirm before you apply.
We don’t sell jobs, “work permits” or quota places — and nobody legitimately can.
A real work visa starts with a real employer. In Pakistan, only Overseas Employment Promoters licensed by the Bureau of Emigration & Overseas Employment (BE&OE) may recruit for jobs abroad — check any agent at beoe.gov.pk, and register with the Protector of Emigrants before you travel for work. Be wary of anyone asking for large payments for a visa “guarantee”, a quota place, or turning a visit visa into a work visa.
Prefer to talk it through?
Pick a time that suits you for a video consultation with Skylite Visa. You will get a calendar invitation straight away.
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Tell us about yourself and we’ll tell you honestly whether this route fits — before you pay anything.
We use your details only to answer your enquiry. Skylite Visa is not a government website, does not recruit for jobs abroad and never guarantees a visa.