What should I know about applying for a married DTV visa at the Thai Consulate in Los Angeles, especially regarding name spelling?

Similar posts have appeared over the last couple days. When I applied, the officer told me “make sure your name is spelled correctly because there have been a lot of people getting denied because they don’t spell their own name right.” I’m 99.99% sure I entered my name correctly. Thank god I saved the application before I submitted it, and looked back over everything. I found a mysterious error had appeared in the spelling of my name. Luckily I caught that.

Maybe your husband didn’t put a hyphen in, but it seems the website randomly messes up names for no reason. Example: last post I read, person got denied for using a zero instead of the letter O. I highly doubt they actually made that mistake on their own

The problem is compounded by the instructions saying "Your name must be spelled exactly as it appears in the machine-readable zone (MRZ) at the bottom of the biographic data page of your passport."

The MRZ doesn't include hypens.

What do you mean with “married DTV”? Is there a special DTV when you are married?

It isn't just Thai government offices. My mother has two different legal spellings of her name and had to go through hoops trying to renew her British passport. So, be careful always.

Yep many people have gotten denial/rejections because of bad data entry and unfortunately the eVisa system makes you pay again to apply again.

you need to use the name exactly as it's written on the passport

So if on the passport the name is hyphenated, you have to do that when you fill out the application too