Andrew Dwyer

There is no confusion, as I said you will submit your documents online for approval. You will then be given an appointment to attend in person with the documentation and receive your visa. If you have originals you don`t need notarisation.

Don’t get me wrong Jim, I’m all for the online visa application I just don’t see that clearly stated for the OA on the Embassy Website.

Do you have a link, maybe I’m on an outdated version .

Yup - Only thing that they seem sure of is Cost will now be £150 and for O-A requires an additional process of online that will be added to offline. 

Yes, that’s the way I read your email reply.
Kinda makes sense because if it was done purely online how would they put the visa stamp in your passport ?
Can’t see them affixing the visa stamp when you visit, surely checking your passport out plays a big part of the process ??

I’m more confused now than I was before !!

I just a response a few mins ago from Embassy:
 
My email:
Can you confirm that on April 1st 2019 the O-A Visa.

1. Cost will increase to £150 
2. Applications will ONLY be available online.
3. The documents required for the application will be sent to Embassy online.
4.  An arranged appointment to visit will be provided to present passport / have visa placed into the passport. 

(Copy paste) Response from Embassy:

1. From 1 st April 19 = 150 GBP 

2. Application might have to do same process and online at the same time according to the change 

3. For O-A you must submit online and hard copy as well

4. For passport submit please check from the website at that time 

5. Please wait for update from the website

 

 

Hmmm sounds like they are not too sure either, hopefully they update their website to make this more transparent !!

You will submit your documents online after April 1st, you will then be given an appointment to attend in person, it`s all on the London Thai Embassy site.

See my post #49, I think there’s some confusion about this .

If you want notarised documentation use the Post Office, it`s a flat fee of £10.50 per document. Up to you, but if your submitting originals you don`t need notarisation. Three months statements wont cut it unless you have £20k in the bank.
 
https://www.postoffice.co.uk/document-certification-service

Last time I used a notary and he charged me £20 a doc !!
Just recently in the uk I had to to have certifications of a couple of docs and used a solicitor - £5 each , lesson learned.

Yup - Pity indeed - Yorkshire Also my home town - So I share your pain!

Last time I got a train to Leeds, got the midnight coach to London ( arrived 6.30 am ), quick bite to eat and a walk through the park to Embassy.
Then to the shoebox hotel room I had booked online, did a bit of wandering about then crashed.
Next day wandered down the river a bit taking in the sights then got the tube to Embassy for 11 am.
Got the passport then back up north on the coach again.

Wasn’t a bad little trip ( October ) weather was kind to me at least.

Probably do similar in September.

 
The e visa is for applying in London a few other locations later.
You may be confusing the e visa with the e voa that is only for those from 21 countries that qualify for a 15 day visa on arrival.
I am not sure the OA visa can be applied for using the e visa.
Perhaps check here to see if you an apply for it using it for a evisa. https://thaievisa.go.th/Home/LongStay

Thanks Joe, did the check and as a UK citizen cannot apply for an OA online.

Yikes it gets better,

 

The extra £25 can be easily justified if have long distance travel to London since it saves one night hotel fees and £12.50 on the postal order.

I do have to say that, after a quick look at Embassy website, I believe my above statement is incorrect and the online application is for E-visa only.

( see photo for list of countries applicable)

 

 

Clicking on the [2] takes you to other visa types and the requirements seem unchanged ( need to supply passport on application so no online available ).

 

 

A great shame as my hometown is in Yorkshire and will involve an overnight stay in London to obtain an OA.

A new series of ‘white gold’ has just started on BBC2, but I saw Netflix on my server GUI .. Coming from Essex and looking at some of the finer details that they managed to get totally correct, I find it amusing.
 
Thanks to all who have participated, i have enjoyed some of the suggestions.
 
Something else that might not appeal to all but a good waste of an hour is BBC’s race across the world.
 
I also snatched the series of “the order” to watch, which looked interesting.
 
Sent from my iPad using Thaivisa Connect
 

I was in the uk recently and saw “ race across the world “ advertised.

Looks pretty good, reminiscent of “ The Amazing Race “ ?

When you describe "Submitted online" - what are you referring to, surely not the A-O application or is this a requirement to apply online before you can turn up in person i.e You can not turn up without an appointment?

This has been mentioned before:
“on April 1st the OA at Thai Embassy London will increase to £150 and will only be available online, documents supplied online and an arranged visit to have visa put in passport “

( this is the gist of what I read earlier not an exact quote )

Since then I have been unable to find anything online to back the above statement up.

If anyone has a link , please post .

Actually good thinking - I didn't realise that Original medical certificate ( from LOS ) could be used. Is there a cost saving from doing this?

Yes, I mentioned it on a few threads and have only seen one other poster say he also did it.

I did it as at the time posters were saying that uk gp’s were reluctant to sign the form as the diseases are “ obscure “, or they paid a lot for the service.

I paid 360 baht ( £8 at the time ) 3 years ago, but also paid £20 to my uk gp for a letter saying that from my records I didn’t appear to have any of the symptoms !!

My uk letter was refused, so I pulled out my trump card ( Thai med cert ) and all was good, a masterful stroke if I do say so myself [emoji51].

Later this year will just get Thai med cert obviously .

Personally I would have liked to have seen more about Queen starting off in their careers!
I felt that the movie was rushed .

There’s so much history to the band it could have been a trilogy !!

Plus, there was just too much about Freddie and ignoring the rest, it was 90% about him and 50% of that concentrated on his sexual preferences. Far too many close ups of Freddie, and as someone who grew up with their music I felt he didn’t look that much like him ( give me a pair of false gnashers and I could do as well ).

Brian May is a hell of a good guitarist, an intelligent and by all appearances a nice guy but featured rarely.

Rodger Taylor was barely in shot .

John Deacon was only mentioned sarcastically by Freddie and I don’t remember him speaking, he just looked hurt or embarrassed.

So much hype about this movie, maybe that was the problem, i felt cheated.

 
Remember these?
7 pints (4 litres) for around 15 shillings (75p / 30 THB) - does not include the cost of building the time machine to get back to the early 1970's..
 
 
 
 
 
 

Yup, remember buying those , pretty nasty stuff in em though.

Mind you it was an improvement from the Spar shop cider !!

Once in a while a joke comes along that makes you laugh out loud and then laugh out loud again when you look at it a second time !!
This is mine above .

( was probably a bad idea to open this thread until the funeral was over !! )

[emoji67]‍[emoji264]
Yes ok but do you hate farmers?

No I kinda like them !!
Ooo aaarrr !!

Well it’s good to know that Thais have conversations at cross purposes as well as Thai/Farang !!

 

Having said that:

 

Today, the gf was at her friends newly opened salon having a hair thing going on .

I was engrossed in a game on my phone and not fully aware of what she was on about when she pointed to her friend and a guy making a sign for the salon and said “ Neen and Neptune “ !!

Strange names, I thought, as I nodded my head in agreement but TIT !!

 

Only later on the way home she talked about her friend and I realised she was saying “ Niece or Nephew ?“ earlier !!

 

As usual I felt it best not to correct her English lest she had a go at my piss poor Thai [emoji20]

 

3 months or 1 month ?

Notarised or not ?

No wonder we are left scratching our heads !!

I’m looking at doing an OA in Aug/Sept this year and the way it’s going I think I’ll use the format I used 3 years ago.

3 months statement.

Original medical certificate ( from LOS ) and original ACRO certificate
PLUS notarised copies of both using a solicitor instead of a robbing notary ( who IMO is a failed solicitor who bought a rubber stamp !! ).