How filing works
Documents are handed in personally at the Thai embassy in Moscow (6 Serpov Pereulok; applications are taken 9:30–12:30). The $350 fee is paid in cash at the counter. There is no interview — the decision is made on the documents, usually within two to two and a half weeks.
The main filter — the 2-NDFL
Since the spring of 2026 the embassy has accepted applications only with official income of 100,000 ₽ a month or more, confirmed by a 2-NDFL certificate: a paper certificate for the whole of last year plus month-by-month figures for the current one. From that follows the route’s main limitation:
- sole traders and the self-employed don’t get through Moscow — the 2-NDFL form doesn’t exist for them, and applications aren’t accepted;
- the core audience here is salaried employees on official pay of 100,000 ₽ a month or more;
- the director of their own company gets through if they draw an official salary (income code 2000); dividends don’t count towards this calculation.
Money and family
The balance requirement is 500,000 baht held on the account for three months, with no dips. By our observations the embassy counts 500,000 baht per person in the family, children included. Foreign documents are accepted only with legalisation by the foreign ministry of the issuing country — the stage where applications are turned away most often.
Jurisdiction
Russia; Armenia — for applicants with Russian documents; Belarus — with documents legalised by the Belarusian MFA. Filing “from Kazakhstan through Moscow” ends in a turn-away — Kazakhstan has its own jurisdiction, Astana.
What we track here
How the embassy reads borderline cases against the filter, the seasonal load, and any change in how documents are received. If your profile doesn’t fit the filter, that isn’t the end of the route but a change of consulate: which one reads your profile which way is visible from the documents.
The state of every consulate is on the live board.