I’m wondering if some people obtained a Visa DTV by attending a seminar with Discover Thai Nature?

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Feel free to share your experience, it’s a shame to pay the seminar if it’s not enough for obtaining the visa 🙏🏼 I’m living in Denmark.

Yesterday I was criticized by a forum member for offering what he considered to be wrong information about the DTV Visa COURSE of Study offered by...the seminar:

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It appears that he has deleted his multiple critical remarks and blocked me for giving correct information. Not a problem for me. I wish him success in whatever he is doing.

I said in my reply to another forum member, that I believed that the course sponsor will make a refund of 80% of the course fee if your DTV visa application was DENIED.

I contacted the COURSE SPONSOR and they promptly replied in email to me:

"Hello James,

for acceptance of soft-power activities we always recommend to Check with your local Thai Embassy.

Acceptance of soft-power activity is at the sole discretion of the consul in charge of the Thai Embassy. We have no impact on that decision (We are not a visa agency or associated with one).

We have several countries globally where our participants were succesful.

If someone is interested, it is always advised to just contact us directly, as things are quite dynamic.

E.g. You mentioned Phnom Penh. No issues for many months, suddenly a few participants rejected and last week approved again.

Does it make sense? Not to us 😅

We currently Offer a 80% refund of the seminar price, in case of soft-power rejection.

(Need proof of rejection, that seminar is not Accepted)

Best regards

DiscoverThaiNature Team"

I also recommend anyone interested in this DTV Visa option... CONTACT THE COURSE SPONSOR TO GET THEIR UPDATED INFO ON WHERE THERE STUDENTS ARE GETTING THE DTV VISA APPLICATION APPROVED.

Hopefully this is helpful information for you ☺️

Applied for my DTV yesterday. Had a little trouble combining my PDF’s but got it. Has anyone done the soft power Discover Thai Nature?

Approved - Sydney, Australia (Royal Thai Consulate General), soft power route.

Applied 7 Feb, approved 19 Feb.

Hi all, just wanted to share my experience and say thanks for all the tips in this group which assisted me when it came time to apply for my DTV.

I applied for the DTV in Sydney, with documentation from Discover Thai Nature. I knew at least one person had been approved in Sydney with these seminars, but I had been a bit anxious as I’d seen several people had been rejected with them in Cambodia and HCMC in recent weeks.

For my application I included:

- Recent passport photo and biodata page of passport

- Proof of current location: a recent phone bill and energy bill with my current address

- Financial evidence: I have two Australian bank accounts which each have more than the required 500,000 Baht. I attached six months of bank statements and proof of current balance reports dated the day of my application (felt like overkill as this came to 45 pages, but wanted to ensure they had everything on hand and didn’t need to request further proof. I merged the PDFs together and also attached a cover letter outlining my financial position)

- Proof of activity: I attached the registration and enrollment confirmation documents provided by Discover Thai Nature (which were emailed to me within minutes of booking with them).

I attached a cover letter to the beginning of those documents outlining my intention to attend the Discover Thai Nature seminars, why the seminars are of interest to me (they genuinely are, and I intend to attend in person as much as possible), why I am eager to spend time in Thailand (I’ve travelled there several times over 20 years so was able to specify what I love about the country), said I would not be seeking any form of local employment during my time there, and that I’m committed to adhering to local laws and cultural expectations.

There was no requirement to upload flight or accommodation bookings, but there is a section where they ask you to provide a flight number and address of your accommodation (I have these so provided the details).

For each section I merged PDF files and wasn’t required to compress them/reduce the size (which was somewhat surprising considering the length of my financial documents 😂).

Thanks again for the support of this group, I think the tip to include a cover letter is a good one and helps you to explain/give context to the documents provided, and enables you to personalise the application re: why you want to spend time in Thailand and why the activity in question is of interest.

Wishing everyone else all the best with your applications! If you’re applying in Sydney and have any questions, feel free to reach out.

I should also mention that I emailed the consulate a couple of months ago to ask if Thai language courses would qualify for soft power. The Sydney Consulate said they do.

I initially intended to go down that route and was in touch with a language course provider who was very helpful, but the course spanned over 7.5 months and I’m unsure if I will stay longer than six months this year. So I may do one of their (shorter) private tuition courses instead while I’m there.

DTV Success Story 🎉

I wanted to share details on my DTV approval as this group, and a few members helped me along the way.

- I applied online December 12th and was approved on December 16th through the Washington DC Embassy (Texas Resident)

- I applied using the Soft Skill route and signed up for a year long seminar through discoverthainature.com and couldn’t recommend the program enough if you go this route for approval. Paperwork provided within 10 minutes of payment.

- Showed 1 bank statement with $16k+ USD and 2 years of tax returns

- Showed a bill and a license photo for proof of address

- I did not buy a flight. I put the flight #s of the flight I expect to take

- Set my dates of expected stay to 150 days

- I was not asked to provide any other documents

I’m open to messages for those with questions. Wishing everyone the best on their application process!