Been thinking about this one a bit and I find it odd that it mentions sponsor or invertation letter, is it possible that you selected an option that says you are a partner or family of someone that already has a DTV or other VISA, if that's not it I think you may be best to ask them to explain a bit more as your right it's unlikely for anyone to have a lease out of country and as you will have an income you shouldn't need a sponsor or invertation

@Tim ******

what a helpful and insightful statement that is, some people choose to use agents because they want to support and also don't want to sit/stand about for hours, everybody is allowed to pick what they want and they don't have to provide any reason to anyone, including you!

@Mark ******

Tik Tok Services is 4k used them many times

@Jaco ****************

no problem

I advise to use an agent to do it for you, cost in Pattaya is 4k baht including the 1900 baht extension fee, also the agent will know the time to apply

@Bea *********

yes this is the process as I have been told by an American man who brought over a Filipino lady to visit Thailand he said one thing that made it complicated was he was paying for the ladies flight which Filipino immigration found suspicious, but it did get all sorted out

Hi Jaco, so same as others I have heard some stories about people getting in to trouble for changing a light bulb in a bar, but not heard any deportation stories, the Thai law simply says a farang cannot work without a work permit so it's potentially very open to interpretation and this happens a lot, but the general idea of this law is to try and protect Thai jobs it's not to get people in to trouble, so I think a reasonable common sense approach needs to be taken, general house work and laundry and cleaning are a part of everyday life so common sense for most would me they are ok, doing garden work that takes you couple of hours to do probably ok, but where it becomes gray would be if mowing would take you all day, then some would say you should get someone in to do, or if painting whole house then pay someone to do, at the end of the day paying someone to help you with bigger tasks is quite cheap here so if it's going to take a while pay someone to do it, but under 2-3 hour tasks probably are ok, and if it's a bigger task and your paying someone to do it then they probably won't complain if you help a bit as long as you don't try to pay less, so always agree a fixed price first for bigger jobs, hope this makes sense and helps

@Cee ******

as it's all online I would think you can do from the States

You will be able to get the DTV I'm sure, the reason an agent won't say that is because they cannot help you with getting a DTV as it's all done online which means they don't make money, some agents are now starting to say they can help though as they will arrange all your travel out of Thailand and stay while you wait, oh and on that note if you go to Cambodia or Vietnam or Lao now it's all online to apply and recently saw a YouTube video saying recent changes now mean it can take 14 days to process, so I advise some research in to that....maybe consider documenting the process to share as it is still early days for the DTV and sometimes changes happen but not shared..but good luck..

@Cee ******

for DTV the money does NOT have to be in a Thai bank account