Two US passport holders. Visited the Yangon embassy on Monday to apply for DTV medical option. No evisa here as others have noted. Made the appointment two weeks ago. Brought along 6 months of bank statements. Foreigner registration and copies of all visas past two years. Photos and the generic visa form. Had appointment details for Bumrungrad specialists for the next 13 months along with stamped signed certificates of diagnosis and treatment plans. Those certificates were very brief and to the point. Not a formal letter. Applied for spouse visa for my wife and brought marriage certificate. All these things were copies. They didn't ask for payment. Told us to come back at 2 pm. Came back and paid, got a receipt and told to return on Wednesday. My wife went back today and picked up everything. The staff were very courteous and as others mentioned wanted to help. They were amazingly efficient as well. We had tons of additional documentation too but they didn't ask for it. Didn't ask for flight ticket or apartment lease. Some local people had up to 8 passports with them. Traffic was very brisk. We've only been in Yangon for two years but know what people are going through. I hope everyone who was there had their visas approved and are able to get out.

Anyone that did the application process in Jakarta embassy recently and can share they experiences please ? ☺️🙏🏽

I’m hesitating between few different countries on where to apply

Thank you !!!

Appreciate all your help and comments

Hello! Has anyone had experience applying for the DTV in Taipei, Taiwan? What was it like? How fast is the process? Thank you 😊

Hello All 👋

I’m just about to cross into Malaysia from the islands in Thailand to apply for my Tourist Visa from the embassy.

I was originally planning my journey to the Thai Embassy in Penang, however I have just discovered there is an embassy in Kota Bharu, Malaysia 🇲🇾

Could anyone who has had gone through Kota Bharu please share your experience with:

A: Travel

B: Embassy

C: Kota Bharu as a destination?

Penang journey vs Kota Bharu?

Any insight would be greatly appreciated 🙏

Hi guys. Has anybody managed to get to the embassy in Jakarta Indonesia for a Non B and Non O visa? How has the experience been? Any current restrictions? Would this be an option for us to go to?

I just wanted to share my positive experience at the Royal Thai Embassy in Colombo, Sri Lanka applying for a SE Non-O Visa, family purpose.

First thing to do is to book an appointment online (they usually have availability every day of the week Mon-Fri) specifying the type of visa you're applying for and print out the confirmation email. They don't let you enter the embassy if you don't have the appointment paper with you.

I would say that for me the only struggle was finding a printing/photocopy shop in Colombo.

I had all the documents they required, except for my wife's Tabien Baan original house registration (we only had a copy), her original passport (which we forgot at the hotel) and the original bank statement of mine with bank certification (I could only print out a statement from my online banking and auto-certify it). The officers were not fuzzy about us not having the originals, they just took the photocopies.

Account balance required is 110.000 SL rupies, which is around 20.000 THB.

Officers are Sri Lankan and they do all the process, but after you hand them all the documents they have a Thai officer review your application and see if there's anything missing or it's good to go.

SE Non-O visa cost is 13.000 SL rupies, approx 2300 THB, passport pick up is after 5 working days. While your passport is with them, I would suggest always carrying a photocopy of it + the visa application receipt and it's all good.

I got my O-A visa today,.Thank you everybody here for the help and helpful posts. Here's my experience.

I went down to LA on sunday night. Stayed at the Rodeway Inn. Nice rooms at a reasonable price and easy 5 minute walk to the embassy.

I showed up at 9:00 am monday morning. There was a short line. You hand your id card to the security guard downstairs. He gives you a badge that you can use to take the elevator to the 2nd floor where they process visa requests.

there are two windows that say 'Visa' on them. You hand your original and two copies to one person. That person checks your forms and highlights the critical parts on each form. The amounts for the financial documents. The date for the airline ticket to go to thailand. If everything checks out, you go to the other window and the other person re-checks your documents and hands you a receipt for your money order. That form has a stamp on it that tells you to come back on the next business day between 10:30 am and 12 to pick up your visa/passport.

My experience getting an ED visa from Yangon:

I arrived at the embassy with all my paperwork plus 6 months of bank statements and 80 USD in cash at 08:30. The door to the embassy is on a side road - it is a steel door next to the main gate. There was a line of about 6 other people waiting when I arrived. By the time the door opened, there were about 20 of us in total.

The line moved inside quickly and I presented all of my paperwork that my school had provided me with. I sat down to wait upon the instructions of the lady working there. After about 10 minutes, she told me the officer wanted to see bank statements - lucky that I brought them just in case. After another 10 minutes or so, I was asked to pay 60 USD for the visa. One of the 20s I gave to the girl was rejected because of a minuscule amount of pink ink that was on the top of the bill - again, lucky I had a spare 20 to replace it with. I was then given a slip of paper and told to come back the next day.

Arrived at around 13:30 - the time I could pick up the passport - and there were about 40 people in line, through the same door. The line moved quickly, took about 10 minutes to get to the front and collected my passport. Flew back in through DMK and had no issue with the IO at the airport.

I did not see anyone get rejected while I was at the embassy and saw nobody called back for any interview or whatever either.

SETV from Colombo, Sri Lanka - doable not recommend.

The website list several recommendations most of which are no applicable to SETV (letter from local sponsor, letter from Thai sponsor, marriage certificate, etc, etc)

I gave them

Certified bank statement from Thailand

Bank statement from US bank

Bus ticket leaving Thailand

Plane ticket into Thailand

Copy of my lease agreement in Thailand

Copy of my US tax papers (verification of employment)

Wait 1 week and got the SETV. The people at the embassy working with the public are locals to Sir Lanka and not terrible helpful. Oddly they are behind one-way mirror so you can see them.

Currently in Vientiane, Laos for a 3 months Non-Imm O Visa (based on raising my Thai son), booked my appointment a month ago obtaining que #5, arrived at the Embassy at 8:30am to a line of about 25 people, when the main gate 'eventually' opened at 9:08am the que had grown to about 50+. I was sent to 'window 3' where I was greeted by the apparently notorious "Visa denied bitch", who upon inspecting my paperwork asked if I had a Thai bank account, I told her 'Yes, that's where I transfer my monthly income from England to", she then told me I need a photocopy of my bank book, I categorically told her "In the last FOUR+ years of obtaining this visa I have never been asked for my bank detail BECAUSE this Visa doesn't require it", not only that but I didn't have my bank book with me anyhow. She accepted my 'explanation' and took my application without further problems. Walked out the main gate at 9:30am & headed back to my hotel a 30 minute walk away. By asking me for my bank details for a Visa that doesn't require it, either SHE doesn't know her job properly or she's 'testing' ME to see if I know what paperwork I need. Oh well, I'll find out tomorrow if I've been denied or not ;-)