It depends on the gym or cooking school.

At FITFAC, we offer a 100% refund if your visa application is rejected.

We also accept PayPal, so your payment is protected under PayPal’s Buyer Protection Policy.

Historically, we’ve only had five rejection cases(from 350 cases) all due to issues such as:

The applicant misspelled their name, or

Used cryptocurrency-related documents as proof of financial support.

We currently have no issues with the embassy. The gym you are talking to probably get banned from the embassy righ now because they accept too many high risk applicant.

At fitfac we do not accept applicant from high-risk countries such as China, Myanmar, or India

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some embassy staff don’t check the list thoroughly and approve the visa right away, while others have specific staff assigned to carefully review it.

The policy varies from embassy to embassy, as the Thai government gives each one full discretion to process and approve visa applications independently, without needing to consult the Ministry of Foreign Affairs—except in cases involving watchlisted applicants from certain countries.

In this case, I wouldn’t call it a scam — it was simply a matter of luck that he got approved.

Anonymous participant That is a good owner.

Anonymous participant the school can told you anything there is no real proof that they are telling the truth. Did you get money refund for course fee?

is your muaythai school doc included the following

1. School certificate from ministry of education?

2. Board of boxing certificate from ministry of tourism?

3. Company registration from ministry of commerce?

4. Thai owner id?

Some muaythai school claims to have these doc but actually they dont, the embassy have the lists of approved school in their system(it is an excel spreedsheet of approved muaythai gym qualified for dtv and edvisa )and if your school is not on their listed , your visa will be rejected.

2 possible explanations:

1. the school is blacklisted and when you apply with document from blacklisted school you will also get blacklisted too.

2. you are the only one that get black listed because insufficient financial statement.

Just find a gym that offer full refund, we offer full refund if visa is rejected. There is no point of charging for the course fee if you are not in thailand to attend the course.(we even accept paypal so you can be protected by paypal policy that you will be covered for the refund if visa is rejected)

you can use gas bill or electric bill as a proof of location