Search the group for that specifik Embassy, and you find loads of answers about how to apply at that excact Embassy

The Embassy in your homecountry, will know about documents normaly issued in that country, and that could make it easier to get documents approved than in a 3 country, that have other norm to business letters.

Write it excactly as in the machine readable field at the bottom of the picturepage of the Passport.

And with DTV there will never be a second time, since after 180 days you should have left Thailand, you have started a new visaperiod and have started from day 1 again

Ask in a Lao group, where they are specilist in Lao related question.

This group is about Thailand as staded in the first word in the groupname.

Make sure to always do things in time, or it may come back and haunt you, when you need a friendly officer.

If missed a deadline, fix it right away, on you initiative, don’t wait for the the authorities to teveal it.

Every foreigner, no matter where they stay, shall be registered with in 24 hours after they arrived at the adress.

It is the house owner, who is responsible to make the registration.

If you may need to use TM30 for something (Immigration), then ask the reception for a copy allready when checking in, it makes it easier for everybody involved.

DTV are not eligable for a Thai Bank account, since it is a tourist visa, so foreign bank is the only option.

Use the search function.

There are 3 main things that you need to be able to prove at Immigration.

20.000 Baht CASH

Booking of hotel / adress of where you will stay.

A ticket out of Thailand within the allowed lenght of stay at the visa scheme you enter on ( visa exempt 60 days = ticket out within 60 days, even if you plan to extend with 30 days at Immigration).

They grant you 60 days stay, of course you have to show them, that you intent to honeur that agreement, and your intent to leave within 60 days.

If those 3 requirements are met, it will be more difficult to deny you entry.