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.
