@Samuel *******

that's fine for you, and I have nothing against Australia. But this thread is about getting a specific visa for Thailand. There are a whole lot of Australians in Thailand -- possibly the largest Farang expat group? -- and I'm sure they have their reasons, but it's not for me to say.

I have never dealt with Australian immigration so I can't comment on it. I know the systems in Thailand, in the US, and in a few different EU countries. Of these, I find Thailand the friendliest.

Good luck with your new life in Oz, many people say good things about it!

@Divya *********

my case was different — my own company and I had stamps just for kicks. But I think others have said it’s not a problem, you just need lots of signatures. Obviously nothing from the USA is going to have stamps or seals, they are meaningless. You should start your own thread here and maybe someone with experience will reply.

@Rene *****

I once did about 100K in multiple 2K SEPA instants and it was no problem -- I think the basic EU principle is that they've got the data and they will prevent ridiculously obvious abuses, but for stuff like money laundering they'll just mine the data later, it's not hard. The US by contrast has no special logic behind the delays, just inertia. Modernizing will cost someone money, how much power does that someone have to block it, etc.

@Ahmed ******

but this was all on your personal account, maybe on Wise, right?

@Cliff ********

did you do it in-person in LA? I though all the US applications had to go through the Embassy (i.e. online visa) -- am I wrong?

@Duncanc *********

in this context -- US SMLLC -- actually they *are* my money in the same way. But I get that this requires some explanation, and it was my bad for thinking it would be OK and/or I would be able to explain it.

@Daisy ****

thanks for the kind words! The mistakes were all mine, and I hope I helped someone out there to not repeat them.

@Alfred **********

don't think so for US origin. ACH is supposed to be "instant" but that's very much not been my experience. Used to do Swift transfers all the time, they took days for mere civilians, sometimes weeks outside the West.

There's a reason Venmo is a massive juggernaut in the US.

@Rene *****

no, apparently it's due to legacy systems and maybe soon they will be upgraded. There is way more money moving instantly in any given second than what us plebs might want to transfer, and a lot of it is dodgy AF, but we have pleb rules.

@Pablo *******

fair questions. I have read in forums (sadly, the best source of info right now) that Vientiane wants to see six months. Based on the vibe of the interaction I strongly suspect that if I'd been able to transfer the money to my private account *in that moment* and then run across the street to photocopy my mobile phone screen -- saw a guy run to do just that -- then it would have worked. But that was not an option for me.

And based on the same, I strongly suspect that if I'd come back in five days she would have just jabbed her finger at the same line-item which doesn't say anything about personal account nor six months, and said "six months."

Some embassies are asking for three months, from what I've read, and others for six. IIRC somebody got accepted with zero months but I wouldn't take the chance. At least in Vientiane they sent me packing without first taking my money.