My friend applied in Vietnam and she was asked to show her income docs (despite applying for Muay Thai and having bank statements). Luckily, she has been renting her house in another country so she was able to provide tax returns from that and got her DTV.

From my understanding, nowadays in Vietnam they have started to ask for income documents for Soft Power too.

If you go via soft power route, they might ask for your income source, and that's when you explain that you rent out your property. This is a reliable way of getting DTV in your situation.

Going a 'workation' route might work depending on the embassy, but it's not guaranteed.

Everything is fully booked😅 but sometimes people cancel their queues. Those openings appear in the system at midnight every day, so it might be worth checking. If you do, don't be late😅 set an alarm for 00:00, because many people are hunting down those time slots🙈

@Russ ******

I did it twice, and it took me about 30 minutes, I think. You can't book this appointment in advance, but there is no real queue for that type of procedure either.

I am in the same situation.

You need to cancel your visa/extension. For this, take a letter of cancellation from your school, go to Immigration and they will put a cancellation stamp in your passport with the date when you absolutely have to leave Thailand (the date in the school’s letter). This is free of charge.

You can leave earlier than that date but not later. After that date, you are free to apply for DTV as soon as you would like.

My school told me it's preferable to cancel the extension of stay (ED visa) before applying for DTV. For some reason, in my school they don't differentiate between the visa itself and the extension stamps. They always say it's more reliable to do the cancellation before applying for any other type of visa.

Anonymous participant 993 on a serious note, could you provide a bit more details? What airport was this and how long ago? Thank you.

My school forbids applicants to leave the country after the process of changing TR/visa exemptions stamp into Non-ED have been started. They say they need to submit our current entry stamps so it would not be advisable to leave the country, since it would make already submitted stamps invalid.

I can’t tell you how strict this rule actually is, but it’s how they explained the process to me (I’m on my second ED visa now). We are supposed to make sure we have enough time on our visas/stamps to start and finish the whole process without leaving the country.

🫡 DTV on Penang: information about the documents for soft power⬇️

1) you can show several bank statements from different accounts if they are all under your name. There is no need to have 500k in 1 account.

2) the length of the courses (Muai Thai) should be “3-6 months consecutively”(c).

I just got the email from Consulate.

@John ******

those cooking classes are not cheap though. I started contacted schools, and those who are ready to deal with DTV, set prices at 70-150k baht for the course 😁