JandT

First time isnt the problem. Your 2nd and 3rd year renewals are.

Just so you know that since you can only get 3 education visas in Thailand( beginner intermediate and advanced) the one that you did have that is now invalid will be counted as 1 Visa so when you go back to school and get another one (if you were on your first when this happened) it will be a new 2nd ed Visa which is only good for 10 months and 3 weeks max. And you can no longer get it at any of the neighboring countries here you will have to go back to your home country to get it. None of the neighboring embassies will issue back-to-back education Visas any longer.

Same here. Occasionally I would get a double fish meal with a Big Mac delivered and it went from 179 baht to 220 and with the 40 Baht delivery fee that just ended it for me. With delivery it used to be around 350. Now it's 420 . We have a thai friend who works at McDonald's and she said that many of the workers are complaining about the prices because it's driving away customers. It's getting as bad as Burger King where it's 375 Baht for a Double Whopper with bacon and cheese and large drink and Fry.

Wow this is the type of dumb response I've come to expect from people on this board.

Nope, we are not! As you said the reason was that they want to see money. A perfectly fair requirement, due to that you can´t live and stay if you do not have. This is probably an effect of that too many people have been living on ED visas year after year, and attending 1-2 lessons per week, at the same time as working to have money for stay. I would say it´s a shape up and a smart move to get rid of a part of the people that otherwise would abuse their permission to stay.

What doesnt make any sense is that the people are getting the documents from the Thai Ministry of Education giving them permission to study in Thailand and yet are still being denied at the embassy when they go to apply. If they don't want people to study in Thailand why are they even approving those documents in the first place?

Soon it will be only one or max 2 ed visa and next consecutive one denied. Few threads with rejection of ed visa not just in Vientiane. Current thread rejected in Saigon. However had history of visas. Problem is similar to Cambodia your pp could be returned with visa and void stamp. Makes for problem to return los if you don't have visa exempt option up your sleeve for border entry.
 

I wanted to make everyone aware that Hanoi Vietnam is becoming extremely difficult to get ed visas for language studies. I attend a Thai language School in hangdong, chiang mai and recently had went to Hanoi a month ago to get my third year visa and I had absolutely no problem. My first two years in Thailand I went to Vientiane and had no problems but with the new changes I decided to go to Hanoi because another student had went about two months prior and also had no problems. I had my paperwork and my bank statement and was literally less than 5 minutes the day I dropped off my paperwork and the next day when I picked up the Visa. But now fast forward about 30 days ... the school that I attend said that two new students that had never had a Thai education Visa before went to Hanoi because other people had went and it was easy but when they gave them the paperwork they denied them and said they needed a new paper because the rules had changed just recently but they gave them no reason and no clear explanation of what they needed. They did give them a piece of paper that said the reason could be because they want to Simply do border runs to stay in Thailand which makes no sense because you have to make a border run to get almost any Visa here. The school I attend was very confused and told them to go to Vientiane and try. one person went there and was also denied in Vientiane. mind you this is their first on ed visa and they had all correct paperwork. They were given no explanation there also and when they went back into Thailand they asked to have a 60-day stamp and the officer would only give them 30 days. The school contacted someone at immigration to ask them what was going on and they were told that Hanoi does not want to approve people who don't have money anymore. They only want people to come into Thailand that have money. So this is a heads up for anyone going to Hanoi Vietnam or Vientiane at this time. I saw the paper with my own eyes that the embassy gave them as well as the message that came back from the immigration person when I was at school so this is not here say this is factual information. I'm afraid we're seeing a Cascade and domino effect of embassies shutting down certain foreigners wanting visas to come to Thailand. It began in Vientiane and will probably spread to all of them eventually

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It's sad to see that almost half of the people decided to criticize what I posted instead of just being thankful for the information. This is why the current Society is in the decline that it is.

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