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Starting to hear a lot of odd things about this Destination Thailand Visa. I am very curious as to what the state of play is going to be with this in quarter one and quarter two of 2025. That being said, I recently received an email from a viewer, quoting directly: "Hey there, I had a question regarding possible risks of doing a DTV in a way where an agent does the documents for you to handle the 500,000 Baht proof. I purchased a DTV Visa without having 500,000 Baht because I was told they will possibly make the Visa impossible to get in the near future, so I got FOMO, (fear of missing out), and went through with the purchase. I didn't have 500,000 Baht but I had enough to pay for their DTV service.." - that's usually the way these things work - "...and thought I had a short amount of time before they discontinued the Visa. Is this legal or illegal? Curious to hear what the possible risks are. I'm concerned on the possible legal risk of having people put together documents on my behalf to fulfill the 500,000 Baht proof."

Well, you didn't fulfill the 500,000 Baht proof, you faked documentation, that's what's going on here, okay, at the end of the day. Meanwhile again, it's anecdotal stuff like this that I'm hearing that leads me to believe that yes, the DTV ultimately when we start seeing this thing in all its glory, when it has to deal with the Interior Ministry - specifically the Immigration apparatus here in Thailand - I don't think it's going to look the way that all these people say it's going to look, and it's for this exact reason. So, the thing to take away from this video is one) you should not be getting into any Visa where somebody says that they're going to claim things that aren't true. Yes, I know there's a lot going on with notions of extensions of Retirement Visa status and having people loan money into your account. In those instances though, the money is actually somewhere and there's an adjudicatory process associated with that. Again, people can sit around and argue the legitimacy of that, but legally speaking again it's somewhat on the borderline but you can make an argument at least that it's ultimately legal because the documentation pertaining to the money in a given bank account that was loaned in, did in fact actually have the money at the time that they showed it. With regard to this DTV thing, it's not working the same way; this is not how the DTV Visa works. As we have discussed in other videos, primarily people are getting these from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs because the Ministry of Interior hasn't said anything about them yet. 

Meanwhile, I suspect that there are high levels of fraud associated with this thing, which again seems logical that there might at least be some, as some anecdotal evidence is often indicative of further actual factual activity going on in the background, but leave that aside. Again, at the end of the day, if at the beginning of the whole process you are basically putting forth documentation that is not factually accurate to your financial situation, yes that's going to put you into a detrimental position. Again, it would be considered fraud and misrepresentation in an American Immigration context; that would be considered a ground of inadmissibility. I would imagine it would be something akin to that from the Thai Immigration system where they would say basically well you got this visa on false pretenses, why would we want to continue maintaining it, let alone let you keep it? 

Again, what ultimately happens with regard to this DTV Visa remains to be seen, but the biggest thing to take away from this video is you should not be putting forth documentation pertaining to the application for this type of Visa that is not factually accurate.