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That's the question.

Does that make it legal?

METV is a widely used acronym for the multiple- entry tourist visa and acceptable on this forum. Also Thai embassies and consulates use it and for all I know they may have started it. https://thaiconsulatela.thaiembassy.org/en/publicservice/tourist-visa-metv-multiple-entries http://www.thaiembassy.it/index.php/news/52-visa/type/78-tourist-visas

I have sent an email to the Department of Consular Affairs at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, asking if they can confirm that the embassy in Wellington has the authority to charge the new fee of NZD 300.00 for the single-entry tourist visa.

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Thai embassies are quick to increase visa fees quoted in the currency of the country where the visa is issued when the currency weakens compared with the Baht, but slow to reduce them when the currency gets stronger. I checked the price in Switzerland just now and it is still the same CHF 40 for the single entry tourist visa (THB 1,580 at Kasikorn Banks buying rate for bank notes) today as it was on 14.11.2014 (THB 1,339 at that day’s rate) My submission of an application for a single-entry tourist visa to the Thai embassy in Switzerland today:

I did the job myself now. Giving a residence address in New Zealand, I submitted an application for a single-entry tourist visa and quite promptly received the payment request for "300 NZD" from the "Royal Thai Embassy, Wellington", but I won't make that payment, of course, because I don't like the price. I can't give a link to that page because it is personalised to my logged-in account, but I am proud to give below a screenshot of it. That's the confirmation I had been seeking, now we have it.

I never said I did not believe it.

Thank you, but what you have posted is not a link to a web page on https://www.thaievisa.go.th/ Please note that the other poster, on whose behalf you have replied to my post, wrote "The visa fees have been up on the Wellington Embassy website for a couple of weeks, with confirmation from the embassy that they are correct, and the same prices are in the e-visa system right now and available for people to purchase" I was very excited to read and if you can give a link to that webpage on what the other poster called the "e-visa system", I should be most grateful.

Thank you for this very interesting information. I was trying to get that information on the https://www.thaievisa.go.th website but it seems I cannot do that from Switzerland. Would you be so kind as to post a screenshot of that part of the respective web page?

Or the visa fee errors on the Wellington embassy website have to be corrected before access to the eVisa site is enabled.

I suspect that the listed price of NZD 300 mistake on the embassy's website.

If I were you I wouldn't go to forums like this for medical advice... The OP did not ask for medical advice.

@Kiwifarang What you have posted isn't really confirmation that the Thai embassy in Wellington is collecting a fee of NZD 300 for the single-entry tourist visa. Let's see a real confirmation. Let's see a receipt posted by someone who applied for the visa, was asked for payment of NZD 300 and paid it. Are you in New Zealand at the moment?

Here's the screenshot.

March 19 has come and will be gone in New Zealand in less than an hour. Looking at the website of the Thai embassy in Wellington just now, I see the single-entry tourist visa still listed at NZD 300, which corresponds to roughly THB 6,500 I meant to upload a screenshot but can't do it from the phone. The URL is https://wellington.thaiembassy.org/th/publicservice/17622-tourist-visa but the content may of course change at any time.

March 19 has com

The OP's question may have been a bit ambiguous. At Thai immigration, there are lines for foreigners and there are other lines for Thai nationals.

Wouldn't registered mail be cheaper but the postal receipt you get for it serve equally well as proof of mailing?

The check-in staff of airlines that are members of IATA generally use the IATA Travel Centre to look up the requirements, using an automated process. It is free to use for everyone. It is up to the check-in staff, probably based on instructions and guidelines issued by the airlines, how strictly to apply these requirements. This is why the traveller in front of me in the queue without a visa may be asked for an onward ticket and I, in the same situation, may not be a asked for it. P.S. I did not select red for the last paragraph; it just happened. In fact, on the phone I wouldn't be able to change the colour even if I wanted to.

At what immigration office is this the case?

A Thai literature course, if you're interested in that.

@everybody except arick Is it true that "every immigration office has a quality control QR code sitting on their desk"? Actually, I am not asking about ever immigration office, just about the one you are using.

In the visa forum, the acronym IO is variously used to mean "immigration office" or "immigration official" In the context of this topic, which is about documents to be shown to the immigration official upon arrival at the airport, it can only mean "immigration official" Every once in a while, I see a post recommending to line up at an immigration counter with a male official with the suggestion that female officials are more likely to ask probing questions or request documents like an accommodation reservation. I have seen no statistical evidence, though, to lend credence to this but it may well be the personal experience of the respective posters.

Thank you.