Posting Cash To The Brisbane Consulate For A Visa Ok?

[telstrareg]

Anyone tried this? I want to avoid the hassle of getting a bank cheque but wanted to be sure they would not reject the application if I sent cash.

[kevjohn]

I do not know if the consulate will accept cash or not but I would not post cash.

It is just too risky.

[David48]

Hi there Reg ... up to you but I'm also a Telstra Shareholder and a member here so you can send me the cash on your behalf and I'll take care of all things for you ...

Why not save the expense of a Bank Cheque?

But don't be a Cheap Charlie and don't forget to include a couple of stamps for posting.

PM me for my post box details.

[jingjoe8]

If you are too lazy to get a bank cheque from the bank get a money order from the post office..........you are not seriously thinking about sending cash are you??

[edwinclapham]

All the more reason to reject your Visa Application by sending cash

B. Lodged at a processing centre in Australia

Acceptable payment methods for applications lodged in

Australia at a processing centre are:

• credit card;

• Australia Post money order made payable to the

‘Department of Immigration and Citizenship’;

• bank cheque:

– drawn on a bank with representation in Australia,

– in Australian dollars, and made payable to the

‘Department of Immigration and Citizenship’; or

• International Money Order:

– drawn on a bank with representation in Australia,

– in Australian dollars, and made payable to the

‘Department of Immigration and Citizenship’.

Note:

1. Personal cheques are not accepted.

2. Travellers’ cheques are not accepted.

C. Lodged outside Australia

For clients outside Australia, before you pay your application

charge, see www.immi.gov.au/allforms/990i.htm to

check the acceptable methods of payment at the Australian

High Commission, Embassy or Consulate.

Payment for a visa application lodged outside Australia may

also be made in Australia. To find out how to make a payment

in Australia for an application lodged outside Australia, see

Thailand Bangkok cashier cheque

bank draft

(in Thai Baht only) Applications sent via mail can be paid by:

Cashier's cheques: if purchased in Bangkok or the Nonthaburi, Pathumtani and Samuthprakarn provinces.

Bank draft: for all other provinces in Thailand.

Made payable to ‘The Australian Embassy, Bangkok’

Cash: upon lodging visa applications at the Australian Visa Application Centre.

See: www.vfs-au.net

[bmanly]

I just sent my passport to the Brisbane Consulate. I sent a postal money order and it took me just 5 minutes and $6.95 to get.

This is what it says on their website, I just followed their rules.

7. For mail applications (usually take 3-5 days including delivery times), please make Money Order, Bank Cheque or Company Cheque payable to Royal Thai Consulate-General. Credit card is not accepted.

Link here.

[telstrareg]

LOL it's only $45 and I'm prepared to trust the embassy staff, but I guess that's me.

Cheque it is then.

[kevjohn]

All the more reason to reject your Visa Application by sending cash

B. Lodged at a processing centre in Australia

Acceptable payment methods for applications lodged in

Australia at a processing centre are:

• credit card;

• Australia Post money order made payable to the

‘Department of Immigration and Citizenship’;

• bank cheque:

– drawn on a bank with representation in Australia,

– in Australian dollars, and made payable to the

‘Department of Immigration and Citizenship’; or

• International Money Order:

– drawn on a bank with representation in Australia,

– in Australian dollars, and made payable to the

‘Department of Immigration and Citizenship’.

Note:

1. Personal cheques are not accepted.

2. Travellers’ cheques are not accepted.

C. Lodged outside Australia

For clients outside Australia, before you pay your application

charge, see www.immi.gov.au/allforms/990i.htm to

check the acceptable methods of payment at the Australian

High Commission, Embassy or Consulate.

Payment for a visa application lodged outside Australia may

also be made in Australia. To find out how to make a payment

in Australia for an application lodged outside Australia, see

Thailand Bangkok cashier cheque

bank draft

(in Thai Baht only) Applications sent via mail can be paid by:

Cashier's cheques: if purchased in Bangkok or the Nonthaburi, Pathumtani and Samuthprakarn provinces.

Bank draft: for all other provinces in Thailand.

Made payable to ‘The Australian Embassy, Bangkok’

Cash: upon lodging visa applications at the Australian Visa Application Centre.

See: www.vfs-au.net

The way I read the OP is that he wants a Visa for Thailand so it would be the Thai Consulate in Brisbane where he pays the fee.

[edwinclapham]

All the more reason to reject your Visa Application by sending cash

B. Lodged at a processing centre in Australia

Acceptable payment methods for applications lodged in

Australia at a processing centre are:

• credit card;

• Australia Post money order made payable to the

‘Department of Immigration and Citizenship’;

• bank cheque:

– drawn on a bank with representation in Australia,

– in Australian dollars, and made payable to the

‘Department of Immigration and Citizenship’; or

• International Money Order:

– drawn on a bank with representation in Australia,

– in Australian dollars, and made payable to the

‘Department of Immigration and Citizenship’.

Note:

1. Personal cheques are not accepted.

2. Travellers’ cheques are not accepted.

C. Lodged outside Australia

For clients outside Australia, before you pay your application

charge, see www.immi.gov.au/allforms/990i.htm to

check the acceptable methods of payment at the Australian

High Commission, Embassy or Consulate.

Payment for a visa application lodged outside Australia may

also be made in Australia. To find out how to make a payment

in Australia for an application lodged outside Australia, see

Thailand Bangkok cashier cheque

bank draft

(in Thai Baht only) Applications sent via mail can be paid by:

Cashier's cheques: if purchased in Bangkok or the Nonthaburi, Pathumtani and Samuthprakarn provinces.

Bank draft: for all other provinces in Thailand.

Made payable to ‘The Australian Embassy, Bangkok’

Cash: upon lodging visa applications at the Australian Visa Application Centre.

See: www.vfs-au.net

The way I read the OP is that he wants a Visa for Thailand so it would be the Thai Consulate in Brisbane where he pays the fee.

Many apologies for that., you are very correct, apologies to the OP

[Phimeow]

Reg, re post#7 - I trust the consulate staff. It's the AustPost workers that I don't trust!

[mickjn]

The only time I sent cash through the mail was many years ago. The company I sent to didnt get to,do not do it

[kevjohn]

The OP has had me thinking where I saw a post, about Australia Post, on Thaivisa..

Finally it came to me.

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/435578-a-letter-to-god/page__pid__4163784#entry4163784