Has the Thai government stopped accepting education visas due to a backlog?

@Brandon ***********

actually most ED visas are issued in Thailand for language schools. Last week the immigration got a report by a very influencial Thai that district managers in three provinces were issuing ED one year visas to Chinese organized crime figures, along with a foundation getting long term visas for these Chinese crime figures, resulting in 36 arrests, and the stoppage of new ED visas until more stringent rules are written and enforced. It looks like it will go back to enforcement of the old and existing rules about extending the visa, with documentation from the school that you are satisfactorily attending, and passing, every 90 days. Duke language school is doing this every 60 days with immigration already. The straight one year ED visa will be a thing of that past, as those immigration agents okaying them have been busted. The Chinese weren't the only ones they were approving one year ED visas for. It will be just like the volunteer one year visas being issued up until last year, those doing it got busted, and those tourists that did not have the correct every 90 day extensions in their passport were refused entry when they tried to cross the border, and change to a tourist 60 day visa, or enter on a visa exempt stamp. Quite a few experienced this entry refusal. The ED visa is going the same way, and it was just a matter of time. If you are legitimately going to school, and passing your classes, you'll have no problem.

@Brandon ***********

- just visited jomtien language school - Immigration have stopped issuing ED visas.

@Brandon ***********

I was just offered an EDvisa and was told I didn't have to attend classes very shady