Peter *******************
@Lai ************
sorry to hear, but its nothing new that your country isn’t geared to cater to other ideas than their own, unfortunately now it doesn’t work so well for the US of A to take a position of their way or the highway.
In my case the QR codes made the difference between an unprocessed application for 7 days and one that gave me a confirmation result in just 3 minutes… asia has been using QR codes for over a decade now, and its being used with great success for a wide variety of processes. In some places you cant even pass through without a QR code reader, for a period the Airport Authorities of Thailand even required a scanning a QR code at checkpoint to pass through to security and the Thailand Pass itself IS a QR code… so, I recommend getting familiar with it if you want to spend time in Asia 👍