Tourist visa

[Beechboy]

Probably in the wrong section but I have just done an evisa thing, which is now the only way to apply for one  .... UK national from Thai Embassy visa dept on Queensgate.

 

I thought it would be simpler, but there are one or two complications which would seem to make in more of a hassle than the old postal method.

 

1. You have to state in detail exactly where you are staying and it seems for the full two months. If you have need to be flexible. I stay in Bkk until my other, half who has a restaurant, is able to join me for a month when she can close it. This decision is based upon business demands in the New Year, which vary. Then we go to Cha-Am for a month.

I booked a hotel in Bkk. for my first two weeks only because of this.

I submitted evidence of this booking, but will this suffice?

 

2. Evidence of residence. It says something about UK nationals/residents not having to provide proof of this. Yet if you fail to upload something you cannot progress. I uploaded the main page from my passport, but will this suffice?

 

3. You now have to provide proof of income or proof of funds as well. Not sure which as there are differing requests on the site. As it is not clear which and not wanting to send my (longish) monthly bank statement I chose instead to send a copy of my savings account with RCI. Will this suffice?

 

If I am turned down, after twenty years of successful applications then we will have to go elsewhere by plane after a month to get my re-entry. My lady has expressed a wish to see Vietnam. It seems that these new demands for a tourist visa might actually send tourists elsewhere.

 

Once all this is done you still have to download the lot, with bar code, and send it with your passport to Queensgate.

 

It also requests £10 "cash." I presume that this is a note, not a P.O.  

 

It's now far more complicated and fussy than it ever was.

 

Has anybody had any problems such as those I have detailed above?

 

I suppose it will get easier the second time around, if there is one next year.

[NiceGuyEddy]

There is a thread on here somewhere with step by step instructions for the new procedure.

[NiceGuyEddy]

Found it! 

 

[BuckBee]

Yes it is a complete mess and not a evisa at all but a online application booking .

If you near a consulate in UK you could get a setv via them while still able to (is rumour the uk consulates won't be doing any visas after first quarter of 2020)

[overherebc]

To the original poster.

You do have the option of arriving visa exempt and being stamped in for 30 days and then extending that for another 30 at the local Imm' office. ( 1900 baht ).

I'm assuming you haven't got a long history of time here in the past year ie more time here than at home.

Carrying a printed out hotel booking, a flight out ( cheap )  booked to nearby that can be cancelled or thrown away and 20,000 baht, or equivalent in uk, usa or eu.

Just a suggestion. ????

[gk10002000]

3 hours ago, BuckBee said:

Yes it is a complete mess and not a evisa at all but a online application booking .

If you near a consulate in UK you could get a setv via them while still able to (is rumour the uk consulates won't be doing any visas after first quarter of 2020)

Ha.  Yeah, it sure seems to not be easy.  I hope the embassies inside the USA don't start following suit.  Maybe Thomas Cook helped them design the site/system!

[nard]

Yep, the online application is already frustrating,

I also need the metv as I stay about 4 months there.

  I've opened an account and had it verified by e mail ,but when I try to sign in and complete the capture thing it tells me " text verification failed".  I've probably tried it 50 times or more,. 

 I sent them e mails but no response yet.

Has anyone else experienced this?

[Beechboy]

16 hours ago, overherebc said:

To the original poster.

You do have the option of arriving visa exempt and being stamped in for 30 days and then extending that for another 30 at the local Imm' office. ( 1900 baht ).

I'm assuming you haven't got a long history of time here in the past year ie more time here than at home.

Carrying a printed out hotel booking, a flight out ( cheap )  booked to nearby that can be cancelled or thrown away and 20,000 baht, or equivalent in uk, usa or eu.

Just a suggestion. ????

Yes. I have done that once before. Thanks.

Otherwise it's a short flight abroad and a few days spending our money in another country.

 

I'll see how my application to Queensgate goes first. It is a badly thought and confusing change and certainly no improvement on the old way.

 

How to use technology badly.