You merge all your documents into one PDF and upload that.

Cover letter, portfolio, CV, tax returns, whatever they require.

It is 100% free and takes one minute to do.

Your landlord is a scam artist. If he doesn't fill out the TM30, HE is breaking the law.

Just take your rental agreement to immigration next time and do it yourself. And inform them that your landlord is charging money for it, which might lead to him getting a call from the local authorities (less than 1% chance of this though, this is Thailand after all)

@So ****

then there is no reason to give you a visa, since you don't have to be in Thailand to study online.

Not sure what visa Andreas was on, but when I got mine I had to get an extension every 90 days, which meant going to immigration with papers from my language school and spending 6-8 hours just waiting and waiting basically the whole day to get a stamp. Immigration officers cane to the school to check that we were in attendance twice during that year, and if you were not in class when they came and didn't have a doctor's note, they could deport you.

Another issue is that if you have an education visa in your immigration history, and try to enter on visa exemption soon after you're done with your classes, you might get denied entry, since the education visas have been abused by thousands of agents selling this visa to people who aren't actually studying. The agents claiming that they can get you a "legit" visa from a Bangkok university are just lying to their clients. A legit education visa is for studying, not just getting a stamp and never actually attending classes.

@張**

I see! Hope you get an approval soon!

Just send them exactly what they're asking for. This isn't something anyone here can help you with.

Your border runs won't affect your application. If you get denied, it will be because of insufficient money or that your chosen DTV activity doesn't require 5 years or access, according to the embassy you apply at.

I'm in several forums and haven't seen a single horror story of anyone being denied entry with a DTV.

But I keep seeing comments that there are "a lot of' horror stories out there. Where are they? Or is it the "The immigration officer asked why I was here, so I answered"-stuff that people are talking about?

It depends on the embassy you're applying at. It's usually either 1, 3 or 6 months.

Yes, what you have in your passport is what you put there.