Have the application requirements for the ED visa become stricter at Savannakhet, Laos?

they are tightening up, and look at the documents from your school (to make sure you're not just using one of those b/s visa mill schools) AND they are looking at your entry history to make sure you didn't live here a zillion years on 30 day visa exempt entries and tourist visas before choosing an ED visa to continue staying BUT if you are really enrolled in a MOE approved school AND you didn't live here a long time before you enrolled in the school you will get an ED visa from a thai consulate like normal

@Tod ********

why is not correct?

that is NOT correct :/

@Amornrat *********

pm'd you

@Ron ******

no worries, I prepare myself for the worst.

@Amornrat *********

i messaged them regarding a briefing that Thai visa have got hold of from the Swiss Embassy in Bangkok. Other than the briefing, they couldn't or maybe wouldn't say anymore.

@OZZY ****************************

ask

@Amornrat *********

. She is their on the ground. It changes daily

They will prolly advise, no visas anymore, Go home.

I would be concerned regarding whats coming worldwide in September regarding Thai Embassys and visas. My contact says something is changing but as yet, they cannot say what.

BTW, the paperwork were from a good school, not a visa mill.

@Ron ******

Shit so after you have been there more cant you apply for a Non-Immigrant O Visa for 90 days?

only a sick mind can make something like that up,

You can have 3 visa exempt each 30 days from border (Russians unlimited) and they will give an ED. But they had a Tourist Visa with an extension, theyu were refused. If they had not extended that TR they would have been granted. Total madness.

this topic is about ED./

@Amornrat *********

i was referring to tourist visas

Do not mix apples with pears.

@Amornrat *********

thats what you put on your website. Make your mind up!

@Ron ******

no, wrong.

@OZZY ****************************

no, my meaning is exactly as my writing.

@OZZY ****************************

90 days in Thailand in the last 6 months and your done there.

So you are saying that if you were in Thailand more than 2 months this calendar year they are denying you?

@Tod ********

yes, today 2 Russians, new passports, just one Tourist Visa with one extension. Denied, after submitting two times.Monday and Tuesday, today afternoon they were told NO.

denied an ED visa?

@Bill ***********

yep, for the second ED visa for thai they expect you to be able to say more than hello.

@Tod ********

, that’s sort of what I heard also. Not for me, someone else posted this.

@Bill ***********

If you are getting a visa for the SECOND time where you are studying "advanced" on the paperwork they might chat with you to see if you're really studying thai or just using an ED visa to stay in thailand. SO I'd say IF you have an ED visa for studying thai you better try to learn thai too ;)

@Bill ***********

that is NOT correct :/

No, you get a Single Entry Non Immigrant ED Visa and at the moment you like to visit Thailand and hand over your passport the Immigration Officer will stamp it "USED' and with that stamp the visa became invalid. You have to keep it in passport as a memory.

@Robert ******

do I understand that you have to pass the test to keep the Visa