The wife is working on a kickback

While Vietnam doesn't really want to see 500k for 6 months, they do want to see account activity, to get an idea of your legitimate spending/income/financial habits. I'd have shown the idle 500k in the savings account, plus the activity in your daily account that hopefully has a substantial balance or continual topping up to account for spending or incoming income or what have you. You have provided zero details on your soft power activity, you haven't said what it was, who the provider was, how long the activity was, nor their success rate with DTV documentation.

@Jack *******

my bad, I thought your reply was actually the OP.

There must be at least 500 posts on this exact scenario, please use the search tool and start reading.

@Jack *******

it's true I don't understand, but I do know you spent 10,000 baht and put 500K in a savings account, plus plus, to get the visa.

The company doesn't know what they are talking about. You are perfectly legal working for a foreign company inside Thailand as long as your work has no direct interaction/services with Thai businesses, persons, entities. The DTV was designed to fill that gap of qualifying remote, freelance, workcation, activities inside Thailand. Part B is you need a non B visa to get a work permit, and if they can't supply the visa paperwork they certainly can't supply the work permit paperwork.

Banks follow KYC know your client. I truly doubt they are wholesale closing accounts from clients that are obviously not mule accounts etc.

@Cris *****

what you can do is take out the 65K monthly transfers when using that method, but the 400k can never be touched when using lump sum.

@Brandon ***********

possibly I mistook Tod's advice that it's a good idea to top up in case the monthly method fails, you wouldn't be at square one. I also thought you had to fulfill the 800k method which meant top up 2 months before applying. Confuffled.

@Jovan ******

if you're trying to switch over to the monthly income method, you still need to top up the 400K to 800K two months before applying for the next extension, during the time you are making the 65+k deposits