What are the pros and cons of applying for a Thai visa at the Taipei embassy?

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Jakarta:

Pros: Quick, easy

Cons: None

I think it is perfectly normal that they want to know about your plans.

The embassies have the difficult tasks to see which applicants genuine apply for the soft power activity and which are just plan to abuse the visa.

A bit strange that you think that people who take their job seriously are not OK.

Taipei increased scrutiny of SPers last year due to the rise of such bogus applications. Someone recently posted last month of applying there and being approved the same day and their husband approved the next day as a dependent. That level of speed was why Taipei was very popular 2024. As someone mentioned the agent handling your application comes into play.

Kuala Lumpur horror... Time, required docs. Waiting already almost 3 weeks.

So what do you do if you get income from different bank accounts and the income you're getting for your remote work isn't coming into the account with the equivalent of 12 or 13,000 U.S. dollars in it

Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam. May 2025 - DTV application.

This Embassy say they complete the application process in 5 working days, but it could be longer, if they need more documents, or request in interview. If they need either of the above, they start counting the 5 days again, from the day after they get the additional documents, or have an interview.

I uploaded my application on a Friday am, and paid the fee. E-receipt back within 1 hour.

Email request for more documentation I received on the same day, in the afternoon. So the response time is excellent at the Royal Thai embassy, HCMC.

The website application tacking system in my account showed as ‘requested more documents’

They requested:

1) pictures of all pages of my passport including blank pages.

2) examples of my Freelance work, experience and qualifications.

3) Highlight on my 6 months of Bank statements, the items that were income from my freelance work.

I completed all of this over the weekend, and uploaded into my account on the website, first thing on Monday morning.

The application tracking system immediately changes to Application pending document checking.

By Tuesday, the online tracking system changed to ‘Application pending approval’

By their time line counting system, Tuesday became day 1 of the application.

My application stayed as ‘Application pending approval for for 5 days exactly, so on Monday of the following week, I get the application approved email, and the e-visa attached.

From start to finish, 7 working days.

The only difficulty I had, was uploading all of the information in the upload portals. Each section only has 3 Mb of capacity, and only 1 file can be loaded into each portal. I had multiple files, for each section, so I had to save the multiple files into 1 PDF file for each section to be able to upload. It just took a bit of time to arrange all of that, making the actual application input time longer than expected.

Job done and very Happy. 😃

Got it done in Sydney, sent in what i felt was good document's, no additional document's needed and I was approved in 5 days

Depend not only ambassy but of the agent too, I suppose. Everyone told me France is very long (at least weeks) and picky but I got approved in 7 days and the agent was very arranged with one of my document I can’t had fast.

The biggest problem with that idea is different embassies can, and do, change weekly on how strict they are.

You forgot the biggest pro/con. Was your visa approved in the end?