@Myles ******

I guess I should know better than to expect customer service from a government agency.

An IT system not taking human error into account is bad design. Humans make mistakes, this should be assumed.

@Myles ******

for the typo? Yes. For the system not allowing a correction to be made? No.

@Myles ******

you are making a lot of assumptions, I did no such thing. A system that takes your application fee when a small typo was made is a stupid system in my opinion. If you have a different opinion that's fine, we just disagree with each other. Not blaming the embassy at all, as they didn't make the system and have no control over it. It's someone who hired an IT company with very little skill that is to be blamed I assume.

@Myles ******

he didn't say it was the embassy's fault, he said it's disappointing they just take the fee with no way to correct a small mistake and I agree, it's a stupid system.

@Ko ******

however you still have to pay 220 THB for ATM withdrawals and don't get to use QR payments, so a real Thai bank account is still way better.

There are reports of people getting this visa based on a doctor's appointment. Get an appointment at a hospital for something small, it will probably work.

@Todd ********

I agree the price of 10k for an extension if you could just leave and come back seems strange, we'll have to wait and see 180 days from now I guess when the first DTV people start running into this

@Vijay ****

not but it sounds like you can go to Laos and apply there