Hi. I'm from Poland and want to apply through the embassy in Warsaw. I have a question: can I use a bank statement confirming my 500,000 TBH account balance instead of a statement? I have the money in term deposits, and they don't appear on my statement.

Hi guys, I just received a response to my application that is as follows:

“We are unable to proceed further with your application as you input GBR in country of the authority that issued your passport which is not match. Your application will be cancelled and you need to reapply. All visa fees are not refundable.”

This is just not true as this is not the information I entered.

Has anyone else encountered this?

For additional context, it is a Nigerian passport, but my last renewal was done at the embassy in Vilnius, so I put in Lithuania as the place of issue as it appears on the passport. Now I wonder if I’m supposed to have typed in Nigeria. This part is always confusing. I applied from London as I live here now.

Hi everyone, I'm in Jakarta and the embassy asked me about my past experience in Muay Thai. Have you had this request too? I don't know how to handle it, i will do a letter and explain that i m beginner. Someone of you do already?

Hi, I have an interview in Laos (Vientiane) next week, where do I go? To the same window that I went to pay the 10k in cash? Or other building?

Also if you had an interview in Vientiane with soft power document please let me know how it went and what they ask.

Has anyone applied at the DC Embassy for a soft power DTV visa using the following information: (really it’s a funds seasoning question)

Cooking classes signed up for.

Monthly income minimum guaranteed $1500.00 usd

Savings :100,000+ (but it is “unseasoned” due to being from the sale of a home)

(All other requirements met)

I’ve had a friend say his money was in his account a few weeks before he applied and was approved.

I would like to move sooner but the seasoning of funds is the only “disqualification” hindering that.

Should I go ahead Thailand and leave after when it’s seasoned and apply in Vietnam?

Kind Advice Requested...

I applied for my Muay Thai DTV in Hanoi. My application was canceled, saying that I didn't have enough months left in my passport.

So we hoofed it over to the Embassy and filed for new passports.

I just got word that our new passports are arriving early next week, so I have to re-apply. Do I re-apply at Hanoi, or do I have to switch to HCMC? You switch cities if you get a rejection, right? But for a cancelation, you can re-apply at the same location?

Please let me know if you have actual experience with this.

No annoying gripes or jabs, thanks.

I applied on 11 September at the Jakarta Embassy for the Muay Thai Soft Power route. Around 17 September, I received a request for all passport pages. Around 24 or 25 September, I received a request for proof of experience and interest in Muay Thai.

Today, on 29 September, the status changed to “Pending Approval” at 10 a.m., but at 6 p.m.(embassy works till 5pm for info) it suddenly changed back to “Processing – Pending Document Check (1),” even though I didn’t upload any new documents. How and why did this happen?

I'd like to ask if anyone has got their DTV in one country and added/applied dependants to the DTV from a different country? We've been waiting weeks for the Canberra office in Australia and have flights booked. Their website says ten working days and we called to confirm but gave ourselves an extra few weeks after those ten days to as apply for the dependant visas but STILL don't have the DTV 😭

We need to be out of Australia and thinking of applying in Penang for the dependant visas. Will this be an issue?

Hey guys, my partner will be applying for the DTV (workation) this winter at the embassy in Madrid, Spain (he’s Spanish).

We are currently already in Thailand, but will fly to Spain for the holidays and stay for a month. Given that a lot of people report slow processing time at the embassy in Madrid, I’m not sure whether applying on the 19th of December (the day we arrive) will be sufficient time. We fly back to Thailand on January 21st… it’s just over a month but of course there’s the holidays in between.

Does anyone have any experience with filing their application while still in another country? In other words: could my partner send in his application before December 19th or will they check whether he was actually in Spain on that day?

Thanks in advance for your help!

Got a documents request, what does it even mean and what I need to send them? Jakarta Embassy, Soft Power

“Other request documents: Please upload proof that shows your past muay thai experiences/interest”