@Wannikea ********

we got ours on a 1 month course

Anonymous participant 235 yes I agree. I think there might be a stage where they say, in 1-2 years, provide evidence of ongoing soft power to keep visa. I see too many people ask the bare minimum required to get and keep DTV. I imagine a tightening of the criteria in the future

@Nika *****

i’d put together a very detailed PDF for each category. I put cover notes for each section just to explain what was in the following pages. E.g “The  following five pages contain three months worth of bank statements. You will see the deposit from our house sale.” Then followed with bank statements. Then “on the following two pages is the official letter from our solicitor following sale of our house and the breakdown of funds received, which as you can see the amounts in the dates match up with the bank deposit”.

Same as for the Visa into vietnam, where we apply from. I covered our flight tickets, where we came from, where we landed, we were staying with receipts from Airbnb and the Visa stamp.



@Genevieve ***

yes. I had more for the original DTV for the missus, about 6 x what was needed. For the 3 dependents application I showed 500k for each of us in the account plus 500k for the missus - so it was around 2.5mil in total. (A little buffer).

I had moved the remainder to a stock broking account. I made zero mention of this. I was expecting to show some evidence of income, however it was not asked.

In the bank accounts that I supplied, they only cover three months. And in that three months the only deposit I had was from a house sale in march. I made no mention of earning an income or how we will support ourselves while we are there as I didn’t want to confuse the application, as I’m not a remote worker. Even though I work online, the money is from the stock market, which is a little bit harder to prove based on what they normally ask for for digital nomads. 

@Komi ******

From Australia so in English. I have seen others using ChatGpt to translate bank statements, but it seems embassy specific.

It took 5 business days for each app. Ours felt longer as I didn’t think about Songram or any public holidays when I applied.

@Yvonne ***

thanks! Muay Thai from tiger eye in Bangkok. She is currently a brown belt in Tae Kwon Do so I presented photos and trophies evidencing her experience in martial arts and wanting to study Muay Thai to broaden her horizons

@Komi ******

sure, dm or here is fine

@Genevieve ***

sure, I don’t mind if you ask here either

@David *******

yes, it sure was. It helped me determine Hanoi vs HCMC amongst many other things

Anonymous participant 231 or the fact they are from Myanmar….