What is the current process for applying for a Non-Immigrant B visa for teaching in Vientiane?

What the others said 🙂 don't worry, Lizzy, you'll be totally good. Everything I have on the current process suggests that the move online truly has worked some wonders for making things less of a headache.

And as others have said, AI bots so often give information that is either not the whole story or just plain wrong as the information they've gleaned from pages is outdated.

Which gives me a lot of troubling thoughts about people relying on it for other things. For example, as healthcare becomes more and more inaccessible in the UK and the US, it must be easy to percieve AI as an affordable alternative to consulting a doctor.

I'm wondering how many serious medical situations have been caused or contributed to in recent years by people relying on what turned out to be inaccurate or misleading information from ChatGPT, Grok, Gemini, or Deepseek, and at what point lawsuits might be incoming considering how they've been marketed so hard as a source of reliable information.

You would be hard pressed to find a worse source of info on all things entry/visa/extension related to Thailand than any of the AI programs out there. :o :/ :(

The reason they are so bad, is because there is so much misinformation and bad information out on the interweb that when those programs data mine they bring up more bad info than good info..

Best of luck with your visa endeavors.. safe travels.

Hi.

@Lizzy *********

I just did this for NonImmB (not academic). I basically uploaded all docs except the visa arrival stamp in Laos beforehand, went to Vientiane, uploaded a copy of the arrival page stamp, paid the fee at Consulate. I was approved within 12 hours. Read that again: 12 hours! I paid around 10am, and had my approval emailed to me at 10:20pm. I don't know if it's a weird fluke, but yeah. Definitely try Vientiane, I think it'll be smooth. (This was Oct. 10th) You can text me if you want. Good luck, girl! 🍀

You're more than a little behind the times

You don't make an appt for anything at the thai consulates in Lao anymore

You go to Lao, you log into the online eVisa system, you upload the required documents for the visa you're applying for, you upload your visa/entry stamp to Lao to prove you're there, you use the hotel address as your "current address" you use the address you have in thailand as your "permanent address", you submit the application, print the confirmation and take that to the thai consulate you're applying thru between 9-11 M-F to pay in cash for the visa. Then you wait in Lao until the visa is approved.

For "standard visas" (Non-O, Non-ED, Non-B) they usually take between 3 and 5 business days to approve them. They send you the approval email with a PDF file attached, you print that (as it is your visa) and then you present that along with your passport to the officer when you stamp back into thailand.

One final time there is NO appt system in Lao for applying for visas, it's all done ONLINE and the only time you go to the consulate is to pay for the visa in cash after you've applied

As I said it usually takes 3-5 days to get approved, what drags it out is you not uploading the correct documents when you make your application, so go slow, get it right, don't make mistakes.