Make the relevant Embassy website a must read, no matter which country you travel to.

There is much great information to be found there, from the most reliable source.

The Thai e-visa website comes with its own usermanual in top right corner.

Search for requirements from the specific Embassy you want to apply at, since the requirements differ quite a lot.

For DTV the 500.000+ Baht deposit can be in any bank anywhere, and you will have big difficulties with opening a Thai Bankaccount,both with and without DTV, so don’t count on that being possible.

Why would there be “DTV Certified” if it isn’t required.

Focus your attention to that / those Embassies in consideration, and ignore information from other embassies.

There is no noteworthy changes, there are only different workflows on different embassies.

Apply as soon as the application is ready, you will not win anything by waiting.

Most Embassies recommend that you don’t apply for any visa, more than 3 months before arriving in Thailand, as can be read at the website of the Thai Embassy you will apply at.

There are also a lot of other important information on that website, you need to familiarize yourself with.

It stead of merging documents, put the 500.000+ Baht in 1 account, thereby making it as simple as possible for the Embassy to process the visa.

Remember the money has to be in a readily available account , if for example you need hospital, you should be able to pay before you get help.

When your spouse apply for DTV the money has to be in account in her / his name, again make it simple.

Ask in a Australian visa group, they know about Australian vica.

Here the knowledge is about visa for Thailand.

Just bring you cards and 20.000 Baht to show Immigration.

You have a much slimmer chance to get approved with a sponsorship. And thereby loosing 10.000+ Baht visa fee.

Don’t your father trust you enough to transfer the 500.000+ Baht to your account, then better chances to be approved