Hello,

I’m moving to Thailand to continue my Muay Thai career. I train out of Manop in Chiang Mai (I have trained there previously). I am certain that gym has all of the correct certifications to enable visa sponsorship. However, sponsorship is not advertised and Kru Manop takes cash payment on arrival rather than requiring booking.

After learning more about what is required, I am a little reluctant to trouble kru Manop for all the required documents, though when I asked for his help I offered to pay a fee. Would it be better to simply spend a month at a gym that already understands the visa requirements, even if it’ll cost me more, for the convenience before going to my preferred camp?

Thank you!

Finally, after 1 month, I have the DTV Visa approved and now I can say I'm back to Thailand. Here's the recap in case it can help to someone:

Is going to be a little long, but I'll detail everything as a post like this would've helped me so much and took so much stress out of me.

I Did apply for the DTV as soft-power (muay Thai) WITHOUT the money in my bank and using a sponsor which was my mother.

I do not work, and I don't have these 500k in one single bank, so I wanted to try my mother to sponsor me, as I also did not wanted to send the money in one bank.

I also did not wanted to send the money from her bank to mine as that would mean paying high taxes in my country.

I am a Spanish citizen and I applied in Madrid.

1. Applied on Jan 6

I subitted:

- my informrmation that they require

- Letter from my gym (muay thai)

- Sponsorship Letter, which here I added the following documents:

1. My passport

2. My mom's passport

3. My mom's bank statement showing 500k+ in july

4. My mom's Bank statement showing 500k+ in january (not all 6 months, I only showed two months)

5. Certificate that she is my mother

6. A letter from my mom assuring that if by any mens I cannot afford to live here she'll pay for my stuff. I also added that this would not be a big issue as Thailand is much cheaper than Spain, so if now I was living with her and she could pay for my stuff, it would be even easier to do it in a cheaper country.

All this was submitted in spanish and english

2. couple days later I contact the embassy asking if my situation (not working, and not having the money in my bank) would be the reason to deny my visa. They said they would not approve it.

They told me I MUST have the 500k for at least 6mo and I cannot use a sponsor, Madrid embassy does not accept that.

To make sure they don't link this with my application, i send the questions using another email, but the conclusion was that I would not get approved.

3. after many days, on Jan 15 I found another solution as I see they wont approve the visa. I contact a visa agency and they told me they'll manage to let me in, and I'd have to do it again after 3 months.

4. Jan 16 I buy my ticket to Thailand to fly on jan 19. I had to come back to Thailand ASAP as I have a gf here so I could not wait until they approve or deny it, specially after the email they sent me.

5. Jan 17 my visa got moved to pending approval (i was excited). Few hours later again to Document check

5. jan 19 i fly to Thailand and enter the country on the 20.

6. Jan 21 they request a photo of me with white background. At this point I had two theories. 1. they checked all and it's all good, the only problem is the photo, so once submitted they'd approve it. 2. They check documents one by one and they stop checking if they see there's one that is not good. meaning they'd probably see the photo was not good, they requested me a new one and once they receive it they'd go to the next doc. and so on and so forth.

7. Jan 21 I got approved few hours later but I was in Thailand. At this point I was so excited and also worried as I knew I'd had to leave and maybe they wont let me in as It got approved while I was in the country.

8. Jan 22 I fly to Malaysia

9. Come back on jan 25 and I was able to come in without ANY problem.

Now I can happily say that I'm writing this in my condo in Thailand with a 6 months stamp.

Conclussions:

1. Apply with time

2. try to add all docs, even if you think is not necessary, just add it, it will speedup the process.

3. Don't really stress on what they say, because even if they say something, the reality can be different.

I know there's not many posts about being sponsored and with soft-power, so If you have questions, please leave them and I'll try to help you out.

I wish you the best luck to everyone and I really hope this post helps you as much as others did to me in this group.

Thank for the people who participate and moderate this group too. It was really helpful.

UPDATE FOR FUTURE READERS:

It appears you need a flat total amount of ฿500k in your bank account when you apply, the duration of which it has to be there varies by embassy. Thank you everyone for your swift assistance🙏🏻

Hey all, I have a bit of confusion around the ฿500k bank statement. I looked on the official website as well as other websites, and have called the consular department as well (they were confused too).

I will be using a sponsorship letter. They earn ฿490k every month. I’m not sure if there has to be just a flat sum of ฿500k sitting in an account with an image of that provided, or if over the course of 3 months there has been ฿500k in the account (different sites and people say different things).

Before I apply I’d like to know to save the cost of a rejected application.

Thanks all

I just calles the Thai embassy in Madrid and they told me that I cannot have a sponsor and it should be me the one who has these 500k in the bank.

Does anyone know more about this?

Could this be possible even tho in the website it says I can have a sponsor?

Thank you for the answers

Hello, I submitted a DTV visa and i'm reading that not all embassies accept a family member like a mother as a sponsor.

I'm applying to Madrid embassy and I have spanish passport. Do you guys know if this is true?

There are so much confusing info, like some people say I need to submit a 6mo statement, which means I need to have the 500k for long time to make sure it is not a single loan, and other say that adding those 500k one time is enough.

That's why my mother is sponsoring me, do you guys have any idea about it?

also, do you know how much time can I expect to have the approval?

Thanks for your help!!

Have anyone sees if someone applied for DTV with Sponsorship letter from employer?

i want to apply via sponsorship letter, if can get any samples would appreciate or if someone can guide........

Does the muaythai gym needs to be registered with both ministry of turism and sport and ministry of education to meet the standard of DTV even i train as professional?

Hello everyone,

The DTV visa requires you to have 500,000 THB (15,000 USD) of money in your checking account right?

I have $4000 to my name & I earn about $2000 in my remote job.

What are my options? is my only option saving up to have $15,000? or can my $2000 payslips help?

Thanks

Has anyone got DTV visa with evidence of funds through sponsorship route

(If you have please explain what happened)

My DTV was approved on Monday by the Thai Embassy in HCMC. I have a 10-month-old baby and would like to apply for her as a dependent. I have a few questions about applying for my child online:

Can the Thai Embassy in HCMC accept my bank statements to sponsor my child?

For the "occupation" field, since she's just a baby and not a student yet, what should I do?

We plan to travel to Thailand on November 2, and I'm worried I won't have enough time for her visa application. Is there any way to handle this situation without changing the flight date?

Thank you for your advice.