Why are there a growing number of visa application rejections in Hanoi, particularly for the Soft Power Program?

No one in this group are experts on Thailand immigration guidelines...(that was your first mistake). It's okay to share personal experiences, but using this network as a means to obtain guidance may not be a good idea.

Like someone else has mentioned, it is likely that Hanoi has one of the highest volume of applications to process for the DTV visa hence it is reasonable to assume that there would be a quota limit for each period. Naturally the vetting process would also be tightened up.

For Soft Power Program, we know that the embassies are starting to require activity providers to offer more classes. Because we were contacted by several of them asking us to adjust our programs to minimum 1 class per week, and most had 6-10 classes per 6 months.

From our cooking school, we are very happy to share that we haven't seen any rejections since following their instructions and changing our program (2 months ago) to 1 class per week. Overall I'm sure the embassies also want more commitment for applicants since the visa is for 5 years after all.

Guys you can go somewhere else. I visited Vietnam and I am in Indonesia now. These countries have réal arguments against Thailand!

I doubt they are exactly the same because even with soft power you still need to show your income and I doubt thier income is exactly the same.

Soft power will get tougher and tougher as time goes on

Sounds like BS to me. People scamming the system then getting caught and coming onto this Facebook page for help haha not a real agent so your work is done get a real job

Stop copy-pasting from one application to another

There is a lot of people applying through Hanoi. These are not people living in Hanoi that have suddenly decided they want to move to Thailand or do a course in Thailand. Most of them are those that were living long term in Thailand on Visa runs and their time is up and they can no longer do a visa run to stay. This means two things, one that consular office is very busy and two they are looking very carefully at these applicants for anything fraudulent. The reality is you are probably better off going back to your home country and applying from there. There is likely to be less scrutiny and a faster process.

I think alot more people are applying now 🤔, as they have tighten up on people without a proper visa's.

Well, are you telling us that after sending hundreds of applications using the same format but with a different name has started looking suspicious and that led to deny several visas lately??? And let's not mention that this forum is open, I really doubt that officials never check these pages to see what it is going on

Despite you being anonymous it sounds like you are acting as an agent for applicants. Are you using the same template for each applicant? Is each applicant signed up for their own soft power activity with their own documentation from the activity provider? Too many similarities across applications are going to raise red flags. Are the applicants actually in a location served by the Hanoi consulate and do they remain there throughout the application process?

They don’t tell you and you age to pay again ?

I have seen a few posts by agents saying their clients rejected in Hanoi the last few days. Do they know or can tell it is agents applying?