What was the application process like for a DTV Visa in Hanoi?

APPROVED - HANOI 🎉🎉🎉

📍Applied - 8th December

📍Approved - 16th December

💵 The full 500,000 baht was only in my bank for around 10 days before I applied, I transferred the remainder of my savings to meet the requirement so you don’t need 500,000 for 3 months in a row in Hanoi.

✖️No additional documents required so I thought I would lay out on here what I submitted to help anyone needing it, some posts on here really helped me so..

📑Financial PDF

1. A cover letter stating why I was training, be a little enthusiastic about Thailand and the Thai people. State anything they might question, for me i transferred 70,000 baht roughly 10 days before applying to meet the 500,000. I told them this is from my savings. I also stated I’m currently doing an English course and wish to teach online to help support myself during my course, I then thought they would reject me for this as many people told me you cannot work on a soft power DTV, but it clearly isn’t a problem. Make sure you state you will not work for thai people or a thai company while in thailand as this is illegal.

2. I showed them 4 bank statement as Decembers didn’t show any activity, with Septembers showing less than half of the requirement. My account was also not being used after early November as I was transferring my savings from another account to my Monzo to avoid ATM fees, I told them this. I highlighted the end balance for each month and submitted all pages not just the first page.

3. I used ex.com to convert my end balance into baht, I screenshot this on my Macbook and highlighted the conversion and the date and time in the top corner.

📑 Proof of Location PDF

1. A cover letter stating where you are, address it to the embassy with their address and the address of your hotel too. State everything about your intentions of travel. My hostel was booked until the 14th and I wasn’t accepted until the 16th so I stated my stay can and will be extended until I received a response. I also stated my intended date of departure was on the 21st to ensure I had plenty of time for a response.

2. Photo of my passport entry stamp

3. Photo of my plane ticket to Hanoi

4. Photo outside of my hostel (if you swipe up on Iphone you can screenshot the date and time with it)

5. Photo of my room key with my passport

6. Atm receipt with the last few digits of my bank card matching the receipt with my name

7. Screenshot of my hostel booking on my email

📑 Soft Power PDF

1. I just uploaded the already combined PDF my gym sent me, it had certificates, a receipt of my payment, photo copies of IDs etc etc

📌 Helpful Application Points

1. Address Information: I was very confused about this, after reading what people did on here I put my Vietnam hostel as the first address, I then chose “no” to the “is your permanent address the same as your current address” and I added my home address in the UK.

2. Passport Place of Issue: I wasn’t sure if this meant the authority, for me it was “HMPO”, or the country it was issued in. ChatGPT told me to write HMPO but many people on here wrote the country so I wrote United Kingdom.

3. Intended Date of Arrival / Departure: My intended date I just made up, make sure you leave enough time to actually receive a response (2 weeks I would say) this is just intended, you don’t need to book anything but you do need a flight number, if you just search a flight on this date, I used VietJet and they have the flight numbers up before booking.

3. Employment: I stated I am unemployed, because I am. But in my financial letter I wrote that I am doing a course and intend to work online in the future and this was no problem.

📌 PDF Help

1. I airdropped my photos / scans from my iphone to my macbook and saved them as PDFs. I then used the thumbnail tool on my mac and dragged and dropped the documents I needed to create each PDF.

2. The 3 PDFs all have to be 3MB or less each. My PDF from the gym was below this and so was my financial PDF, but my proof of location wasn’t. I signed up to Adobe for the 7 day free trail, uploaded it and it just shrunk it for me, so easy to do. I then cancelled the subscription.

I hope this is helpful for those applying after me!!

Good luck, you got this 🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭