New form and requirements for a Tourist Visa in Australia

[reargunnerph3]

Royal Thai Consulate in Sydney now has a new form for Tourist Visa's.

[BudRight]

The way it reads you have to pre-book accommodation for the entire trip. I've never heard of such a thing for Thailand. I thought only Bhutan and North Korea require this.

 

The second option is incoherent.

[ubonjoe]

Not sure about the accommodation actually being needed.

I cannot see them asking for something the embassy does not ask for.

 From this page for Australians to get a single entry tourist visa here. http://canberra.thaiembassy.org/Home/visa

 

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Documents Required:

• Your actual Passport or Travel Document. (Passport or Travel Document must not expire within 6 months and contain at least ONE completely empty visa page);
• A completed and signed application FORM A;
• One passport-size photograph (3.5 x 4.5 cm.) taken within 6 months with a full-face view without hat or glasses. (Photocopy not accepted);
• A copy of the biographic page of your passport or travel document;
• A copy of airline ticket confirming the date of your arrival to Thailand as well as your departure from the country;  
• If you are not an Australian citizen, a proof of Australia Electronic Visa is required.

 

[reargunnerph3]

7 hours ago, ubonjoe said:

Not sure about the accommodation actually being needed.

I cannot see them asking for something the embassy does not ask for.

 From this page for Australians to get a single entry tourist visa here. http://canberra.thaiembassy.org/Home/visa

 

 

That's the same form that the Thai Consulate in Sydney used to have. Now they have a new one, check the Sydney Consulate web site. Much prefer the old one.

[reargunnerph3]

7 hours ago, ubonjoe said:

Not sure about the accommodation actually being needed.

I cannot see them asking for something the embassy does not ask for.

 From this page for Australians to get a single entry tourist visa here. http://canberra.thaiembassy.org/Home/visa

 

 

Here's part of the new Sydney Visa form, quite different from the Canberra Visa form

[Gillyflower]

These requirements are exactly the same as I have had to provide (including the Accom.details) for the last TWO years to the Paris Embassy.  I thought it was the same everywhere.

 

I stay in a very large GH  but the owner never seems to know what to do.  Is it only the French Embassy that asked  for it?

[ubonjoe]

12 hours ago, reargunnerph3 said:

Now they have a new one, check the Sydney Consulate web site.

Sydney does not really have a website now with info on it other than some file downloads.

This from the home page that has been like that for months now. https://thaiconsulatesydney.org/

 

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Please note

The Royal Thai Consulate-General website is currently being upgraded, and full services will be restored shortly.