DTV APPROVED - Jakarta (Muay Thai)

DTV APPROVED - JAKARTA (MUAY THAI) UPDATED + DEPENDANT VISA.

I've already posted the following, but now we also have my partner approved as a dependant, so updated the info below with more details to perhaps help some others that are planning to apply.

Visa type: DTV – Soft Power (Muay Thai) (Main applicant)

Nationality: Netherlands

Age: 28

Embassy: Jakarta

Applied: 11 December

Additional documents requested: 26 December (passport photos only)

Uploaded the same day, status moved straight to pending approval

Approved: 04 January 2026

Details:

Employment status: unemployed

Funds: more than 4x the minimum required balance in my bank account

No cover letter or extra explanations submitted, only the required documents in the application

Documents uploaded:

Bank statement with opening balance, closing balance, and income highlighted

Muay Thai gym documents merged into one PDF (used ilovepdf.com):

Invitation letter

Gym business license

Owner’s ID copy

Also, for place of issue for my passport, in my specific case I just put exactly as written in my passport: ' Burg. van Amsterdam', however, for my wifes dependant application, since she is a Spanish passport holder, and for the place of issue it states a very long weird 'code' with letters and numbers mixed, we just put ' SPAIN', and she was approved without any notes regarding this.

Dependant visa for my wife:

Applied January 9, additional docs requested on the 24th of January: New clearer passport photo, all pages of the passport + our marriage certificate translated by a certified translator.

We just took a new photo on an iphone with a white background, took all pics of the passport, and for the marriage certificate, it was already an international marriage certificate, with multiple languages including English, my guess is they didnt notice. So instead of having it translated, I just reuploaded the same, highlighted the English parts, and wrote a small cover letter explaining this, and to have it translated would probably take another week or more.

Uploaded all of these within 3 hours after receiving the doc request.

January 26 the status moved to pending approval and today 28 it got approved without any further questions/notes.

Also, I wrote a sponsor letter with chatgpt stating I will cover all expenses etc as my wife does not officially 'work' either. Along with that I uploaded 6 months of my own bank statements with my name on it.

Overall the process was smooth and straightforward. Just took a bit longer than I hoped, but yeah the holiday season.

Hope this helps!

Got DTV visa (Spouse / Dependent) approved in HCMC, Vietnam.

with Sponsor letter from wife (Main DTV-Visa Holder)

Timeline:

• DAY 1 (Tuesday) – submitted application

• DAY 2 (Wednesday) – pending approval

• DAY 9 (Wednesday) – visa approved ✅

My main DTV visa was approved and after the approval we submitted the dependent visa application for my husband. (same day)

I sponsored him, and these are the documents we provided in one PDF for the financial / sponsor proof:

- Sponsor letter

- Copy of my passport

- 3 months of bank statements (because a lot of people ask this in the group — I used the same 500,000 THB that I used for my own application, and he was also approved with it)

- Our international marriage certificate

No questions. No additional documents requested. Just one week of waiting at the pending approval stage.

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Other submitted documents:

- Passport

- Photograph

- Copy of the main DTV visa

- Proof of location (flight booking confirmation, boarding pass, entry stamp, hotel reservation in Vietnam, photo with passport in front of the hotel)

- International marriage certificate (we added a separate page to the international marriage certificate with a short note that it is already translated into English and that English is the third language on the document. I saw in the group before that embassies sometimes miss this. So we added it just in case.)

My husband & I just got our DTVs approved in Hanoi. I wanted to highlight something for people who got married in the EU & received a "Formule B" international marriage certificate. Make sure it's visible that the document is already in English!

The writing is small so it seems it can be easily overlooked. They initially sent us a document request for translation to English & notarization. However, I figured that must have been a mistake. So I wrote a short cover letter explaining that it's already in English, highlighted all the English text on the document & uploaded that. A day later, my husband's application was switched to "pending approval" & 5 days later it was approved.

Just a tip so no one panics & tries to get a document translated & notarized that's already in English 🥲