Who can file here from 31 August 2026
Citizens and holders of a residence permit of Austria, Slovakia and Slovenia. Vienna is the only post that serves Slovakia and Slovenia; Thailand has no consulates of its own there. The post speaks of a residence permit, not of permanent residence.
The post’s page is stuck in 2024
Vienna’s DTV page is a foreign ministry image marked “Revised 16 July 2024”. Its list still carries the proof-of-current-location document, which was removed from the e-Visa form on 31 August; there is no criminal record certificate on it, and the fee is given as 10,000 baht. The post’s own fee page is dated 2021 and has no DTV on it: there is nothing to confirm the real amount with, so we do not quote one. Payment goes through the portal, and the sum becomes visible at the point of filing.
Vienna has known the certificate requirement for a long time, though: our records show it requesting a criminal record certificate for the DTV back in February 2026, six months before the worldwide rule. The e-Visa form now requires it from everyone.
The criminal record certificate
The Austrian Strafregisterbescheinigung is ordered online for €18 through ID Austria, the national digital identity system, and issued on the spot at a Polizeikommissariat, a Vienna police district office. A clean certificate comes out in two languages at once, German and English, so no translation is needed. The post has its own instruction for legalising Austrian, Slovak and Slovenian documents: a sworn translation plus a chain of certifications, with the embassy’s stamp at €15 in cash. An apostille does not work for Thailand yet: the Convention enters into force there on 28 February 2027.
How filing works
- Everything online, through the e-Visa portal. The post does not publish a processing time for the DTV.
- Finances: no less than 500,000 THB, which is about €13,100, plus three months of statements.
- Dependants: a spouse and children; the post does not state an age.
Reports on Vienna diverge more widely than on any other European post. A Slovak freelancer had a visa in four working days. Another applicant was refused after two months of document requests; a third was led for three months towards a compulsory interview in person, with a demand that the founding documents of a Cypriot company be certified through a Thai consulate. An untranslated phone bill with a local address has passed, and so has a letter from a client saying he had no objection to remote work. The interview can be a formality: they asked for the passport and the registration, and an hour later there was a visa.
We quote neither turnaround times nor statistics: the spread is too wide, and there are no cases under the new rules yet.
What we track here
Whether Vienna will update the page for the 31 August rule and publish the fee. For the O-A visa the post already requires a certificate no older than three months with notarial certification, and we expect the same formula for the DTV, but for now that is only a hypothesis.
A package you have assembled yourself we check before filing — the Preflight Check: $300, a written report within two working days. Full support all the way to the visa is the Solo Route and Family Route.
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