Is two weeks enough time to process my visa application for Thailand?

Lee-Ann *******

Hi Lance, I've sent you a PM to ask a few questions about this , thanks

Gerry ********

unless Canberra have recently gotten much busier, you should be fine. Mine took 8 days. Some other folks here got theirs within a week.

Lance ******

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do they email you when it's approved or are you meant to just keep logging into the portal and checking?

Gerry ********

they'll email you, with the pdf attached. You can always log in and keep an eye on the application, but in my case, it only moved along 1 step after a week, then the next morning I received the email. You can also log in any time afterward, if you need to download the pdf again.

Lance ******

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ah okay no point in constantly logging in then if they'll email me anyway. I'll still do it anyway tho coz of the anticipation lol

Gerry ********

yep. I was checking multiple times per day. like a kid waiting for xmas. lol

Lance ******

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hahaha I feel like it's impossible not to. When you're that excited to move to Thailand just to be like blah I'll sit back and wait lol. I applied 10am on Friday so hopefully that counts as an extra business day. I'm clutching at any straws at this point 😂

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yeah I reckon it'll only be a week or so based on other experiences so I'm not too stressed. If I only had a week then different story lol

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Henrik *****

Was flightdate a eequired field ?

Some Embassies, proces applications by arrival date, and not application date, and you don’t get the visa until the last week before departure.

Lance ******

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@Henrik ****

Yeah it asks for flight number and date of arrival.

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Stephan ***********

Your travel data are not really important... that are just "intended" plans. I worry more about that you gave your Embassy just 14 days... good luck with that... 🙄🤔

Lance ******

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@Stephan **********

If the dates I put don't matter then it doesn't matter anymore if they take over 10 business days

Stephan ***********

So your flight and appointment aren't real dates?

Lance ******

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@Stephan **********

my hard copy appointment slip from the hospital has the date of

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and that's real, flight date isn't real it was just an estimate, but I just changed my appointment today it to

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and my real flight date is

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but I've lodged it so I can't change it now. I guess we'll see. What's the worst that can happen. From what I can see most people are having their approvals in 1 week or less so let's see if I'm one of those (since I don't think I'll need to provide further docs)

Stephan ***********

Not a big problem anyway... you can travel before you get your DTV and use the visa exempt first. After that you just need to do a border bounce to activate the DTV.

Lance ******

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@Stephan **********

Oh yeah great idea thanks for that!

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Ko *****************

Hope you get it soon. Actually they need more time. Mine is 5th November 2024 and my application submission was 20th September in person.