People who choose not to give their printout of the visa + passport in one go never cease to amaze me. You do you though.

Surprised many of ya'll believe this made up story. He posted this 2 hours ago, which would have been roughly 8 or 9am in Thailand, but calls it "tonight"? And, he happened to have just the 20k cash? Which currency? Hmmm, right. And find it interesting these people always witness the denial and "deportation" of 10 or 20 other people "in the same room". Never seen that before, and pretty sure that's not how deportations work.

I'm African and have never been questioned. Take that for what you will.

It's not "immigration" you have to worry about. It's the embassy. I suggest you wait until you meet their stated requirements.

Sponsorship applies only to legal dependants like children or spouse (married couple). A boyfriend/girlfriend relationship will not be recognized as it has NO legal basis.

lol

Some applicants with a valid METV have been told to wait until it expires before processing of the DTV can begin. It makes sense. Why don't you use up that METV first? DTV isn't going away.

"Domestic Tourist Visa"

Question to the people saying "renew now": does your country allow you to renew when there's more than 1 year of validity left? Mine doesn't, unless all pages are already full.

No, never happened