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What are the current fees for the DTV visa across different embassies?

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Jul 25, 2024
5 months ago
Jean-Maurice ********
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not sure what’s up with the exchange rate but my dtv visa was a $400 USD (฿14K+), not ฿10,000. the receipt doesn’t itemize any additional fees so i’m assuming that’s the true fee. curious what others paid.
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A user expressed confusion about the DTV visa fee they paid, which was significantly higher than expected at $400 USD (around ฿14,000), contrary to the assumed fee of ฿10,000. Several commenters shared their experiences with different visa fees at various embassies, highlighting discrepancies due to exchange rates and individual embassy pricing policies. The conversation delved into the complexities of visa fees, why they vary between embassies, and the challenges expats face in budgeting for these expenses.
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Darren **********
It’s supposed to be $400 US
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Jim **********
Noticed this a lot - looks like the individual embassies are creaming a 3-4k baht cut for themselves. Outrageous, but they will get away with it.
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Peter ********
@Jim *********
 Trivial fee.
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Simon *********
Yep NZ embassy chasing
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Grant *******
Do you have the option to pay in THB?
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Jim ********
@Grant ******
 no
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Phil ***********
its a 5 year visa peoples, pay the fees'a'for the lovely visa before its gone! it's brilliant, the gov should be charging 50k for this and we'd happily pay
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Jean-Maurice ********
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@Phil **********
 I hate when people try and shame others especially about finances by saying they should be grateful for whatever opportunity. it tells me how you might be treating thai people, many of whom will be more concerned with finances than you. “we” are not monolithic, we come from many different circumstances and we’re all trying to better our lives. we don’t need you to come in and tell us we should be okay with anything. if you’re okay. pay whatever a government tells you to pay and shut up. but leave the more conscious and critical of us to our own ways.

tldr; please 🖕🏾 off
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Phil ***********
@Jean-Maurice *******
 You hate, you jump straight to F'off, probably find a better country mate 🙂 That wont go down well here. I am just a person who loves it here and don't care to quibble over a few quid. 'we' are monolithic, we are human, in general we are one, that's another argument altogether. To Thailand we are certainly are monolithic outsiders, wanting to come in. If you don't want opinions of randoms don't post on the internet.
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Jean-Maurice ********
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@Phil **********
 just remember, you could have not commented and we would have all been good. next time just don’t say anything if it’s not substantive
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Neil ******
The number of people complaining over such a small amount of money is proof this was such a terrible decision by the Thai government. Cheap people who aren’t going to spend money will not bring the tax revenue the governed hopes to see.
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Casey ******
What’s the point of this? Demand to pay 10,000 and fight it or pay it and get your visa? What are we talking about here?
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Ricketa ***********
@Casey *****
 the point would be common sense to start with. Second would be to give perspective. The third would be the ability to comprehend the top listed two.
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Craig *******
What's to stop you from applying in a cheaper country? (With VPN)
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Ivan ************
@Cr***
 one of the requirements is "Document indicating current location (driving license, bank statement, or proof of stay)"
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Jim ********
@Ivan ***********
 how does a driving licence, bank statement dictate you current location?
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Ling *****
@Craig ******
 perhaps you need too show your proof of country of residence by using your licence. I know they ask for it in your application. Plus they want to see flights in and out of your country. I don't think you can pick Cambodia when your ID states you are from *insert western country here*.
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Nongnuch ********
350.- Euros in Germany, that equals
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Steven *********
£300 in the UK
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Bhavin **********
A taste of things to come once you land
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Michael *******
Any word on fee in Kuala Lumpur ?
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Greta *****
Let's hope you get approved , because if you get rejected the money stays with them...
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Florian ************
And if they reject, the money is gone 😢
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Jim ********
@Florian ***********
 shouldn’t be any reason to reject if you are eligible. As an individual you should know whether you meet the requirements
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Jean-Maurice ********
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@Florian ***********
 it looked like after the document review phase they would either request additional docs or approve but what would garner a rejection?! 😣
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Summer *****
@Jean-Maurice *******
 You pay before the document review stage.

There are still a lot of unknowns about what is allowed or not.
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Jean-Maurice ********
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also... I attached a printed out account transaction history my bank gave me as my financial proof cause I didnt want to wait 30 days for a new statement that would show the requisite amount.. im not broke but I definitely didn't have $14,000 all in one account. im hoping they dont kick it back and ask for an actual bank statement 🥹 anyone out there wanna calm nerves and tell me everything will be fine? haha
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Ricketa ***********
@Jean-Maurice *******
 I’m broke 😂but I thought it was 16k in the bank account. Does the money has to stay at 16k?
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Jean-Maurice ********
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@Ricketa **********
 fuck that’s confusing. I could have transferred to my thai account but I had no idea
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@Ricketa **********
 ok I also for a time thought it was 16K and was sick. but every time I do a exchange check ฿500,000 comes up less than 14K so i’m rocking with that. and no you don’t have to keep it there but whenever you reapply for the visa i’ve heard you’ll have to keep proving you’ve got that much in the bank ready. 😫
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Ivan ************
@Jean-Maurice *******
 it's 500,000 THB or $16,000, if you're showing a statement in USD, it's $16k. Hopefully they will show you some leniency but that's the requirement from that embassy.

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Lyra *****
Thats just how much it costs in the u.s. slightly different for every country I believe.
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Max ***************
350 EUR in Germany
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Sanj *******
I paid $400 2 days ago to the LA Thai Embassy
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Peter ********
What’s a DTV visa?
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Jean-Maurice ********
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@Peter *******
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Peter ********
@Jean-Maurice *******
 Thanks. There are so many of these different visas. Waste of time learning about all of them.
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Walker *********
Do you have to get it in your home country embassy or can it be from any consulate?
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Ko ****
380 USD in Poland 😂
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Andi ***********
Embassies making up for loss of income from other tourist visas. Tokyo Embassy
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Leslie *******
It is the cuts. For the manager,and is staff. 10 years in office. He we be going back to Thailand rich 💲💲💲😂
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Stephan ***********
New Zealand charges 2,000 NZD for the DTV, that's about 43,000 Baht... 😳
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Nongnuch ********
it seems the Thai Ministry of Foreign Affairs at some point in their recent history, decided to raise the visa fees for New Zealanders so incredibly high, as if they wanted to disencourage Newzealanders to visit Thailand. . . . . . . Maybe you can blame it onto the two Kiwis who took a Thai Brown Boy (policeman) into a chokehold 7 months ago. Maybe this incident caused a whole nation to be regarded as being hostile to their guest country 🤓
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Stephan ***********
@Nongnuch *******
 This incident happend on March 16th, the Embassy in NZ announced the changes on February 23rd, for being effective from March 19th. So... nothing to do with the two guys...
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Ron ******
@Nongnuch *******
 How would an incident that happened a day or so prior to the announced fee increase on 19th March impacted that decision🤫
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Graham ******
@Ron *****
 March wasn't 7 months ago?
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Ron ******
@Graham *****
 Where did I say it was???😮NK's comment suggested the incident may have been a factor in the fee increases in March. 🤔 I was just pointing out that the incident actually happened immediately prior to the fee increases, not 7 months ago, so clearly had no connection. If embassies/consulates raised visa costs every time a farang behaved badly you'd need to win the lottery to afford to buy one🤣
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Nigel *********
@Nongnuch *******
 I rekon some truth there... I wonder how much mum and dad had to pay to get them out...must have been 10's of millions
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@Stephan **********
 move to Aussie

Only aud$600

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Ling *****
@Phil *****
 thanks Phil, at yesterday's exchange rate of 23.40 it equates to 14,040 baht for the DVT. Same mark up as other countries.
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@Ling ****
 yes I'm aware of this
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Stephan ***********
@Phil *****
 So... another country with about 14,000 Baht... seems to be the normal price now... instead of 10k...
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@Stephan **********
 noooo. Its based on ฿25 to aud$1 but Aussie has tanked
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Stephan ***********
@Phil *****
 with 25:1 it would be 400 AUD, no?
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@Stephan **********
 dunno you do the mathd
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Milan ********
@Stephan **********
 wtf
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Stephan ***********
@Milan *******
 I don't know why exactly they changed so much in March. After that everyone was expecting similar things from other countries, but... nothing happened yet... luckily...
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Максим **********
@Stephan **********
 DTV didnt exist in March.
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@Максим *********
 He's referring to the other visa costs which were increased in March. My Non Imm O that I'll get next year, would've cost me NZ$120 but now it's NZ$800😲
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Stephan ***********
@Максим *********
 Yep... and everyone knows that. What's your point?
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Stephan ***********
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Andrea *********
In Germany it costs 350 Euro ~ 13.800 Baht
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Samuli *********
@Andrea ********
 Same in Finland, 350 €
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Frank-Steven ***********
Sadly this is “normal”. Prices vary drastically between different consulates. As with everything in Thailand … nothing is ever coherent between different offices of the same organization. Same with local immigration offices. And then they wonder why people try to play the system and shop for the more favorable consulates and immigration offices.
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Delvonte ********
Legally that can’t happen but embassy is its own domain. 😬.
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Kenny *****
USD1 to 25B inhouse exchange rate ouch.
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Ryan *******
Omg I for a second thought they sent you a 400 baht fine to the Washington embassy.
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Andy *******
300 GBP in UK, not sure what that is in Thai baht
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Stephan ***********
@Andy ******
 About 14,000 Baht
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Kenrick **********
Y’all need a retirement visa, only 1900 baht
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Stephen *********
@Kenrick *********
 except for the people who aren't retirement age.
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@Kenrick *********
 If they’d only get rid of the 90 day reporting for retirement visa. DVT doesn’t require as far as I know.
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Joshua **********
@David ***
 nah you still have to do 90 day reports.
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@Joshua *********
 Is that a fact? So after 90 consecutive days someone on a DTV will need to goto immigration to do their reporting. Do they require a TM30?
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Chris *******
@David ***
 tm30 is required within 24 hours for all visitors.
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Stephan ***********
@David ***
 You might be wrong with that... not definitely sure yet...

"DTV holders must report their address to immigration every 90 days as required by Section 37 of the Immigration Act."
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Kenrick **********
@David ***
 wait …LTR
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Kenrick **********
@David ***
 DVT does not require 800,000 baht in the bank
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Kenrick **********
1 year
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Vinn *********
I have the same with my 30 days extensions. Sometimes I pay 1900THB and sometimes I pay 2000THB. We can't do anything about it..
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Henrik *****
Some pay 100 baht for photo by Immigration officer.
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Vinn *********
@Henrik ****
 Thank you! That could make sense yes. Because sometimes I didn't bring my photo!
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@Vinn ********
 Well... so it was the photo service... so much for that... 😁
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@Vinn ********
 I don't think so... all extensions are 1,900 Baht... not more, not less...
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Vinn *********
@Stephan **********
 Ah okay you know it better. I did pay 2000 baht 3 times and 1900 6 times in 3 years
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Stephan ***********
@Vinn ********
 Nothing to do with "knowing better"... it's just a matter of fact, the price is fixed for years now. Not sure for what exactly they charged you the 2k... would be interesting to see the receipt... 🙄🤔
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Vinn *********
@Stephan **********
 I know the official price is 1900b but the immigration officers can ask more right? (Same like the Thai police i did see in youtube a ticket 2000THB no helmet and at the end he did pay 500THB at the policestarion) And that is what happened to me. It was last year I am probably did trow away the receipt or he didn't give me. But as you read here it could be for the "photo service 😁"
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Stephan ***********
@Vinn ********
 Yep... your "mystery" is solved, all good. About the IOs in the offices... never heard anything bad about that, they are always 100% correct about the fees. Border checkpoints and Police checkpoints are "slightly" different stories... 😁
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Jim ********
@Stephan **********
 try getting a residency certificate from different immigration offices. Some don’t charge at all, some charge 250, some 500, some 300 😂😂
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Sue **********
@Jim *******
 thats right, it took me years to find out that officially and in reality a CoR is free. 😉
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Stephan ***********
@Jim *******
 Well... um... okay... you are right... and also wrong... 😉

By law this certificate is free of charge. What you pay is a kind of "express fee" for taking it "same day". If you tell the IO that you don't want to pay he will tell you to come back the next day... or the next week... or in two weeks to pick it up. And... if you decide pay the fee you won't get a receipt... that's the big difference to visa and/or extensions. The "funny" thing about this fee is, that not even all the offices inside the same Province charge the same... whyever...
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@Stephan **********
 I’m not wrong, I’m telling you my experience. I’ve paid and had to go back a day or two later so it’s never been the case of paying more for an express fee. Different offices make up different prices and I have been given a receipt 🤷‍♂️
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Stephan ***********
@Jim *******
 Oh... okay... that's "new"... kind of. May I ask where?
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Jim ********
@Stephan **********
 Patong, Phuket town, Krabi, Bangkok. Admittedly this hasn’t been recent but over the 15 years I’ve been traveling to Thailand. Patong and Phuket town were different pricing even though they are both in Phuket 😂😂
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Stephan ***********
@Jim *******
 You got a receipt at Phuket?
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@Stephan **********
 Phuket town yes, Patong no
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Stephan ***********
@Jim *******
 That's quite interesting... I never got any... not in Town, not in Patong. Once I got three certificates for 500 Baht in Town... must have been a mistake...😁
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@Stephan **********
 yeh I’ve had a couple from there over the years and were different prices each time 🤷‍♂️. Like I say I haven’t needed one for a while so no ideas whether they’d charge now
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Stephan ***********
@Jim *******
 Town and Blue Tree 300 each, Patong 500 each. That are the "official" rates...

But if you ask the boss in town... well... TiT... 😁
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Michael ********
Someone listed all different prices from different embassies very bad exchange rates from embassies, but hey you got dirt cheap visa for five years
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Andy ************
@Michael *******
 That's my thoughts. A bargain visa and people are whining about a few thousand baht!
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Washington DC, Thai Embassy quotes the price as $400

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Brandon ************
Washington DC loves to do this. They were charging hundreds of dollars more for the LTR than the 50,000 it is supposed to cost.
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@Brandon ***********
 why not stupid American Pay. And they still do.
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Brandon ************
@David *****
 every embassy does it across the world
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@Brandon ***********
 ONLY Thai ones
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@Brandon ***********
Rental of properties at DC cost an arm and a leg..5555. Especially on Mass. Avenue. Should move to the suburbs
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 New Zealand charges about 130k... ;-)
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@Stephan **********
 that’s disgusting Brandon, get fleeced there or here one way or another.
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Graham ******
Embassies set their own rates, you're lucky you're not Canadian ;)
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Flukie ******
We paid CAD650 about
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