@Tod ********

I never thought of it that way

@Upasaka *******

Vancouver Canada

I am told all embassies and consulates are moving to online visa application only at the end of October, no more in person visits to embassies or consulates. Each country is very different, here in Canada just the BIO page of passport, no reason to ask for empty pages, that is silly. Also Canada is very expensive, $500 USD or $650 CAD for each DTV Visa, $1300 for my wife and I CAD, or $1,000 USD, not cheap, but great Thai consulate to deal with, very freindly and very efficient and fast, we had our DTV Visa within 2 days, they even called me to change my catagory f rom remote worker to "Soft power activities", and I did not h ave to pay any extra fees, overall great experience, except for teh high cost herre in Canada

Anonymous participant not a very stable country

I think what they are doing, they only want people who do have enough money to survive in Thailand, Thailand does not want people who borrow money from somebody to make it look like they have enough money, then get to Thailand and have financial problems, I’ve seen it countless times over 25 years,people coming to Thailand that are really bad with finances and don’t have enough money, they caused more trouble than they are worth

Anonymous participant yes I totally understand you, but there are many Thai embassy/consulate that do take credit cards, US cash is King all over the world. It seems

Anonymous participant that’s really terrible, the consulate in Vancouver. Canada has been absolutely excellent, one day for one of our visas and two days for the other one. 

@Ron *******

exactly 👍

You can always switch to "soft power activities", that is what I did

@Wannikea ********

and?