Thailand e‑Visa

Cur­rent­ly, get­ting a Thai­land e‑Visa from Malaysia is not as easy as it used to be. While many peo­ple used to get visas eas­i­ly before, now there are a lot of rejec­tions. Many peo­ple are apply­ing repeat­ed­ly because they do not know the cor­rect rules, but they are get­ting reject­ed every time.
In this blog, I will show you step by step how to apply for a Thai­land e‑Visa from Malaysia 100% cor­rect­ly, what mis­takes will lead to rejec­tion, and what doc­u­ments need to be sub­mit­ted cor­rect­ly.

The most important rule for Thailand e‑visa

The most impor­tant and manda­to­ry con­di­tion for Thai­land e‑visa is you must apply from with­in Malaysia. That is, if you are vis­it­ing Malaysia on a vis­it visa or stay­ing in Malaysia on a job, stu­dent visa or work per­mit, then you can apply for a Thai­land e‑visa from Malaysia only. If you apply from out­side Malaysia, the sys­tem will not accept it, so there is a 100% chance of rejec­tion. So before start­ing the appli­ca­tion, make sure that you are cur­rent­ly stay­ing in Malaysia and that you have a Malaysia entry stamp in your pass­port because this stamp proves that you are eli­gi­ble to apply from with­in Malaysia.

Important documents required for Thailand e‑Visa application

To apply for Thai­land e‑Visa, cer­tain doc­u­ments must be sub­mit­ted with great impor­tance. Because due to the recent increase in the rejec­tion rate, even a small mis­take can now can­cel your appli­ca­tion. There­fore, it is impor­tant to pre­pare each of the fol­low­ing doc­u­ments cor­rect­ly.

1. Malaysian Entry Seal

You need to upload a clear scan copy of the immi­gra­tion entry seal that you get in your pass­port when you enter Malaysia. This seal proves that you are stay­ing inside Malaysia and are eli­gi­ble to apply for an e‑Visa from here.

2. Com­plete scan copy of pass­port

Pass­port scan­ning is a very impor­tant step for Thai­land e‑Visa, and this is where most appli­cants make mis­takes. You need to scan the entire pass­port from the first page to the last page, includ­ing all the blank pages and sub­mit it in a PDF file. Those whose pass­port is 48 pages or 64 pages must sub­mit all the pages. Along with this, a recent pass­port size pho­to­graph, and a scanned copy of the visa stick­er or social visa on which you are in Malaysia must be sub­mit­ted.

3. Bank State­ment

A bank state­ment is now a manda­to­ry doc­u­ment for Thai­land e‑Visa, and even a small mis­take here can lead to rejec­tion of the appli­ca­tion. It is bet­ter to have a bal­ance of at least 20,000 Bath or its equiv­a­lent in your bank state­ment, as it proves your abil­i­ty to trav­el. The most impor­tant thing is that the state­ment must have a bank seal. Many peo­ple pro­vide state­ments gen­er­at­ed online, but visa offi­cers usu­al­ly give less impor­tance to it when they see online state­ments, and the chances of rejec­tion increase a lot. There­fore, it is the safest and most accept­able way to col­lect a print­ed state­ment with a seal from the near­est bank branch before apply­ing. A cor­rect and clear bank state­ment sig­nif­i­cant­ly increas­es the chances of your visa being approved.

4. Copy of Malaysia Visa

It is manda­to­ry to sub­mit a scanned copy of the visa on which you are stay­ing in Malaysia for the Thai­land e‑Visa appli­ca­tion. If you are in Malaysia on a stu­dent visa or work visa, you will need to pro­vide a clear scan of the visa stick­er or per­mit. For those who are in Malaysia as tourists, you will need to sub­mit a copy accord­ing to the type of vis­it visa you have if you have a mul­ti­ple entry visa, a copy of the mul­ti­ple entry, and if you have a sin­gle entry visa, a scan of the sin­gle entry is suf­fi­cient. Make sure the scan is clear and all the infor­ma­tion is clear­ly vis­i­ble, as this is an impor­tant part of the visa ver­i­fi­ca­tion.

5. Addi­tion­al doc­u­ments for student/work visa hold­ers

For those who are in Malaysia on a stu­dent visa or work visa, an addi­tion­al doc­u­ment is required for the Thai­land e‑Visa appli­ca­tion. In this case, you will need to obtain a clear­ance let­ter from the Bangladesh High Com­mis­sion (Kuala Lumpur), stat­ing that you intend to trav­el to Thai­land for the pur­pose of trav­el. This clear­ance let­ter is used to con­firm the authen­tic­i­ty and pur­pose of your trip. How­ev­er, those on a tourist visa in Malaysia do not need to sub­mit this clear­ance their visa process is com­plet­ed nor­mal­ly.

6. Con­firmed Air Tick­et

In the case of Thai­land e‑Visa, the con­firmed air tick­et or live PNR is one of the most impor­tant doc­u­ments. Even a slight mis­take here is almost cer­tain to result in visa rejec­tion. Your tick­et must be a Paid Book­ing, that is, one for which pay­ment has been com­plet­ed. When check­ing the live PNR, the tick­et sta­tus must say “Con­firmed”. Many peo­ple mis­tak­en­ly sub­mit a hold book­ing or a gen­er­al unpaid book­ing, which the visa offi­cer rejects out­right as a result, 100% rejec­tion is guar­an­teed. Cur­rent­ly, many agen­cies pro­vide live PNR for a fixed fee, but to avoid fraud, it is always safe to take tick­ets from trust­ed and ver­i­fied sources.

The air tick­et must be paid. Paid means there must be a live PNR. Where the visa offi­cer will 100% check your tick­et to see if this tick­et is live and con­firmed. Yes, the con­firmed tick­et is only when it is paid.

I have exchanged some mon­ey from an agency. I was cut­ting this live PNR tick­et which shows con­fir­ma­tion online. There are dif­fer­ent cours­es which dif­fer­ent air­lines also show con­fir­ma­tion book­ing in nor­mal book­ing type. You should do a lit­tle research. Even then I will give infor­ma­tion. You can con­tact them and get the tick­et through live pay­ment.

How to write a cover letter for e‑visa application

Cov­er let­ter, which is very impor­tant for Thai­land e‑visa. When I applied for the first two times, I got visa approval on the third time. The first two times my appli­ca­tion was reject­ed because I sub­mit­ted only online gen­er­at­ed mon­ey state­ment with­out bank sol­ven­cy. Also, once there was a rejec­tion because I gave the air tick­et in the form of nor­mal book­ing, which was not accept­able to the visa offi­cer.

To cre­ate an effec­tive cov­er let­ter, you should fol­low some impor­tant points-

• Clear­ly state the pur­pose of your trip. Write clear­ly why you are going to Thai­land.
• Men­tion pre­vi­ous trav­el his­to­ry, if you have trav­eled to Thai­land or oth­er coun­tries before with a visa.
• Men­tion your cur­rent sta­tus in Malaysia whether you are a stu­dent, work­er or tourist.
• Show bank bal­ance and finan­cial capac­i­ty. It is bet­ter to men­tion the total amount of mon­ey in USD, RM or BDT.
• Clear­ly state your trip plans and hotel book­ings.
• Con­firm your air tick­et dates and con­fir­ma­tion.

If you sum­ma­rize all this infor­ma­tion neat­ly in a one-page cov­er let­ter, your appli­ca­tion will be more accept­able to the visa offi­cer and your chances of get­ting your visa approved will increase sig­nif­i­cant­ly.

How to fill up the Thailand application form accurately?

In the appli­ca­tion form, first you have to go to their offi­cial web­site. It can be from Malaysia or from Mal­dives, it can be from Sri Lan­ka. First, if you open a new appli­ca­tion with your trav­el pass­port, you will get a dash­board. In that dash­board, it will ask for your pass­port infor­ma­tion. The scanned copy of the pass­port should be 3 MB 3 megabytes in size. You can com­press this size from var­i­ous places on Google. After that, you will give your pho­to.

When you give your pass­port, they will auto­mat­i­cal­ly take all the infor­ma­tion of your pass­port. You will see that you could not take some infor­ma­tion auto­mat­i­cal­ly. You will fill that infor­ma­tion your­self. You have to be very care­ful that what is the first name in the pass­port? What is the last name? What is the mid­dle name? Are you able to enter this infor­ma­tion cor­rect­ly? If you can­not enter it cor­rect­ly, then of course if your e‑visa is approved, this infor­ma­tion will not come to your cor­rect posi­tion and you will have to accept the delay in your air­port pass.

Then you have to pro­vide con­tact infor­ma­tion. You can fill in the infor­ma­tion direct­ly where the infor­ma­tion is request­ed in the trav­el doc­u­ment. Your cur­rent address and per­ma­nent address are not the same, so you have to pro­vide it sep­a­rate­ly. The cur­rent address is the address of the coun­try you are in if you live in Malaysia, then the Malaysian address; if you live in the Mal­dives, then the Mal­dives address; if you live in Sri Lan­ka, then the Sri Lankan address. And the home or per­ma­nent address is your Bangladeshi address, such as Dha­ka or any oth­er place in Bangladesh. Then you have to fill in your occu­pa­tion and man­u­al income.

Then click on the Next but­ton. After click­ing Next, you will see that you have to men­tion your cur­rent loca­tion. For exam­ple, you are apply­ing from the Roy­al Thai Embassy in Kuala Lumpur. Here you need to men­tion that your appli­ca­tion trav­el doc­u­ment is an ordi­nary pass­port, the type of visa is tourist, and sin­gle entry or mul­ti­ple entry. After fill­ing in the infor­ma­tion, you will go to the next page.

On the next page, you need to pro­vide detailed infor­ma­tion about your trav­el. Here you need to men­tion the date on which you will arrive in Thai­land (Arrival Date) and the date on which you will leave the coun­try (Depar­ture Date). You also need to men­tion your last port or last port. If you start your jour­ney from Malaysia, then the last port will be Malaysia. Then you need to men­tion whether you will use land, sea or air port.

In the next sec­tion, you need to select the mode of trans­port, usu­al­ly com­mer­cial flight. You also need to pro­vide the flight num­ber.

Here you need to pro­vide the address of the hotel where you will stay. You will get all the nec­es­sary infor­ma­tion from the hotel book­ing. Hotels can usu­al­ly be booked from 11 am. If your trip includes mul­ti­ple hotels, you can pro­vide an addi­tion­al hotel address. For exam­ple, if your trip is for five days, it is bet­ter to select two hotels so that the trip is real­is­tic and nat­ur­al.

You need to men­tion in the visa appli­ca­tion whether you are trav­el­ing to Thai­land or not. If yes, select “Yes”. Also, if you are not going in a group and want a sin­gle visa, select “Sin­gle”. Then click on Next and you will be tak­en to an impor­tant page. Here you have to fill in the bio­da­ta page. Only pass­port-relat­ed infor­ma­tion needs to be giv­en in the trav­el doc­u­ment, no addi­tion­al infor­ma­tion needs to be giv­en here.

Then comes the step of upload­ing pho­tographs and oth­er doc­u­ments. Your cur­rent loca­tion will be the coun­try you are in, such as Malaysia. The hotel book­ing in Malaysia and the address of that hotel, as well as the cur­rent address giv­en ear­li­er all the infor­ma­tion must be the same. Check all the address­es and book­ing infor­ma­tion cor­rect­ly.

All Thai­land book­ing copies, hotel book­ing copies will be giv­en here as Finan­cial Evi­dence. Here is the bank state­ment of finan­cial evi­dence. Now tell me where you will give the cov­er let­ter. This is where you can add your cov­er let­ter. Or add the cov­er let­ter with your bank state­ment to your finan­cial doc­u­ment. I added my cov­er let­ter with the finan­cial doc­u­ment. And of course the air tick­et will be a paid book­ing here.

Then after sub­mit­ting, you will be tak­en to the pay­ment page. You will have to pay with your mul­ti-cur­ren­cy card. After mak­ing the pay­ment, they will give you a reply email with­in a max­i­mum of one day that what is the sta­tus of your visa? If they ask for any doc­u­ment lat­er, they will give you the doc­u­ment.

Anoth­er impor­tant point is that the scan copy of the full pass­port. You will not give the scan copy of this full pass­port with this appli­ca­tion file. When they ask for addi­tion­al doc­u­ments lat­er in the mail the next day, they will attach the scan copy of the full pass­port to this mail.

There is no need to sub­mit a scan copy of your full pass­port with this appli­ca­tion form. So you will have to wait. You will get a reply with­in a day after sub­mit­ting. And they will inform you about the next steps. I hope all of you will get your visa approved if you sub­mit it fol­low­ing this process.