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Actually as someone who live here almost 2 years i certainly feel that prices goes down by a lot.

I mean house prices. Rent prices. Hotels are empty. Less tourist at my area which is a very touristic island.

A LOT of western business shut down this year, i personally know more than 10 only here that closed due to

lack of income and other problems.

(hire 8 Thai people for a business visa... come on! this is not Canada!)

What are they doing there ?

I see, so i won't even try.

I just won't.  

Thanks. Wow, so if Vien is once a year now, and they are usually the easiest with visas, i don't want to think of others.

I just read here that HCMC just refused an ED.

I am not retired, which leaves me one option only : business visa or leave this country and don't come back.

Lately they are literally making it impossible to stay in their country if you are not a real real tourist.

And i am the kind of guy they should want, engineer, building a startup, etc.

(Their startup visa is impossible even more than the US.)

I guess it is over with Thailand.

Did anyone tried? after 9 months ED in Thai language, we would like to get another ED right away.

I guess it will make them suspicious ?

ok so they are going to ask questions.. shit.

Did anyone get tested when extending their ED ? if so, is it a real interview or just questions over the counter ?

Are there immigration officers that known to test you ? (we need to go to Koh Samui)

or a story of someone who got rejected for not knowing Thai language ?

Thanks.

We registered to a Thai language school for 6 months with an option to extend the course to 9 months.

1. Did anyone got rejected when doing the first 3 months extension(inland)? do they test my Thai language ?

2. Did anyone got rejected when extending the second time (6 months to 9 months) ?

3. Have anyone managed to take 2 courses in a row without problems ? (each 9 months) 

Thanks.

thanks a lot. We will try the yellow bank (krug.. something ?).

We have an ED visa for Thai course, intend to stay here 9-12 months or more.

I read a post here about it from 2012, and another guy said he had problems.

What banks (large preferred) will let us open an account with a passport and ED visa ?

We obviously need a credit card also.

Thanks.

You can go at 10am because every time she change numbers, she starts from 0 (0-100, 0-140, 0-200) , to let those who late come in.

Anyway once inside the line is not strike, which means as long as your appointment is today, it doesn't really matter where you are in the line, you can just approach them and show your paper.

New regime? So it was easy till now before this new regime? That means things can only go down ????

What is the real address btw? I see 2 addresses, one in number 15, the other in 300+ Same street (?)

Yea will take a taxi to border probably thanks.

Just hope we will get this visa.

in case we don't get it for some strange reason, is there a way to talk to them ? get a different kind ? or just say yes and leave ? 

It's like one shot, you wait 2 weeks for appointment and you get yes/no ? if you want another shot you wait another 2 weeks in this city ?

Ubonjoe thanks, you are really great ????

Just hope they will give us this visa , otherwise we stuck .

When you finish a visa in Vientiane, 

1. What border you go from that makes no problems ? (say we go to Bangkok or whatever is better)

2. How you go there ? by bus or train ? (say we do not care about price, which is more convenient ? )

3. Making an ED visa, what stamp should we expect on this border ?

Thanks a lot.

Thanks a lot.

We apply in Vientiane.

Hi,

we are about to ask in Laos our ED.

We got a bunch of papers signed by our school and the ministry in Surthani (maybe 25-30 docs ).

I just read here an old post about a denied ED for lake of university degree.

https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/747638-ed-visa-denied/

I have one, my Asian gf don’t.

School said it doesn’t matter, just asked me

to write in the application if I have one.

They say you don’t need it.

They said never got an rejection in Laos.

Website will not show this requirement.

Do we need to worry ?

Thanks a lot.

The meeting is 2 days after arrival. Then there is a weekend. 

So not enough time to go somewhere else before/after.

Don't hate it, never been there but read its a pretty boring place.

Just hope they will not deny this ED.

It is not directly visa related but can help others since now you have to wait long time to get an appointment, and since

Vientiane is a hole. We for example, need to wait 6-7 days there, including a weekend(appointment is in the middle).

Where would you stay that is quite enough and not too far from the embassy ?

What would you do there ? (coffees/art/nature/malls/etc)?

Thanks.

8 hours ago, ubonjoe said:

You cannot pay to get it the same day at the consular section. But you might find some tauts or agents that will claim the can get it done on the same day.

Since Monday appears to be a holiday not shown on their calendar or holiday list the may do them on Friday.

Thank you !

One last question because we are REALLY nervous about it all.

We are coming with all ED docs given by the school.

School says never got rejection from Laos (but a few from Vietnam).

What might be a reason for rejection for us ? is there anything we can do (or a document to bring) to reduce that ?

(my gf is from Vietnam)

So if it is a holiday there is a chance for same day? How can you know that in advance? Or only when you give your passport? 

Can i ask? Saying I need to leave before Tuesday due to a flight? 

Also , a fast process reduce chances for rejection or increase? ????

Wait , what’s the chance for same day collect? I have an appointment but I want to collect same day, can I pay for that?

because it’s Friday and on Monday it’s a holiday I think .

1 hour ago, Thailand Outcast said:

In the whole week you are waiting, you should be researching for a place where you and your girlfriend are welcome, and keep it as your Plan B. 

There is no place like that for Asians outside of Asia ????

The plan is to get a real serious startup visa for a European country, which may take time.

If you have any advice...