Is that going to be standard procedure at Chiang Mai from now on? Chiang Mai was my first port of entry on my DTV in November and I didn't get questioned. Hoping each subsequent entry won't be scrutinized. However, this suggests that the claims that you must always have 500K in your account at all times are overblown. Edited to clarify my post

Was it your first entry on the DTV?

@Henrik ****

Well, shockingly the instruxtions say nothing about a requirement that you use a US bank account ( It's shocking because the Thai authorities are infallible and would have thought through everything.

@Kelly *******

Can you ask the embassy if you can open a US bank account and fund it, then?

@Christopher *******

A lot of people post about their worries about weaknesses in their application. Not sure how likely it is that visa officers lurk on this group, but it might lead to unwanted scrutiny.

rrrr

@Peter ********

That's what I thought too, but quite a few people assume that IOs know their visa option.

@Andi **********

The IO doesn't know which option we chose for our application unless we tell them though.

@Hari ******

Does this mean we should cancel the visa if we don't intend on continuing a course?

It's often taken for granted here that your SP course needs to be at least 6 months long, yet here we have a successful case with a one-month course. And there've been a lot of rejections in Hanoi for SP recently. What seems to have tipped the scale in Op's favor is the 1 mil bht bank balance. In this case, the embassy didn't care if the course was just one month.