@Geoff ******

get a muay thai class up to 6 months and a week/10days in vietnam to apply for your DTV visa. If you don't mind gamble k then you can try with the medical route but the dental part is very risky and likely to get denied (as most of dental procedures require no more than a few weeks to be done)

if you are older than 50then you should look at the retirement visa. You can apply for DTV but dental appointments are a big gamble, some got approved, a lot of folks got denied. You should invest k in a muay thai/cooking class, no matter if you'll attend those courses/classes, all you need is the documents to show up the embassy. That's a k for the DTV + k for the courses but you'll be good for 5yrs

@Mart ***

could you please mention the school and the cost (even in private)? thanks

it could take up to a month so 2 weeks might now be enough

depends on the kind of medical treatment and it can still be a gamble except if you have a previous history of treatments in thailand. I feel it's safer to waste k on the muay thai route but get your visa approved that taking the risk of a medical treatment and get your visa denied or get a METV the most

what gym and how much did u pay for it?

@John ******

chinese names got a surname and usually 2 names, as example Lin Yu Fang. Lin is the family name while Yu Fang is the given name. My friend Put Yu as first name, Fang as middle name. He lost 10k cuz the embassy said that Yu Fang has no middle name but he should have typed Yu-Fang as given name while the official website claims the opposite

A friend of mine who got a chinese name got a far worse experience, he typed in the middle name as all the English official website claims but his application got cancelled cuz according to the thai embassy, chinese folks have 2 given names and not a a given and a middle name. He showed them the screenshot from their official website claiming he followed exactly what they wrote there and you know what their reply was? "You tick that part of the applications that says that this won't be refund in any circumstance. (showing the screenshot of what they just claimed) Try again".

it's likely that the embassy will ask to check the money transferred to your account for several months and not just for a single month

they take it slow when it comes to email.... My friend got her visa approved last week and she her mail was sent this morning (9 days after the visa was approved)