Wait, you just spent 6 months on a tourist visa and now trying to get what type of visa? DTV or METV?

Anonymous participant - If you applied via the embassy in Nigeria, they say it takes at least 11 business days, but state it can take longer than that and therefore should apply 4-6 weeks in advance. Since the 12th was a Thai holiday, today is the 9th business day. If you are very lucky, the earliest you will get it is the evening of the 27tb

@Henrik ****

but some embassies come back and ask for the actual ticket. London is known for doing that

You can also fly to Cambodia - closer and probably cheaper. Also visa on arrival

The Thai embassy (Jul 28th) requested that all Thai nationals who could, should leave Cambodia. This would include non-essential embassy employees and staff family and spouses. Furthermore, the consular department that is responsible for visas is also responsible for Thai citizen services for Thais in Cambodia (who they asked to leave quickly). You can imagine all of these is going to slow the visa review process down.

These are the provinces covered by the HCMC consulate

@Callum *******

- you might want to consider finding a way to cancel this application, then flying to Vietnam (or Laos, Cambodia) and applying via one of those embassies. They tend to have a much quicker turnaround time than UK, so you might only need to stay there a few weeks. Also, since they are in the region, flights would be much cheaper. Downside, you would have to pay the visa fee again. Also important to remember, returning to England doesn’t mean you will get the visa

@Paul ********

- Ok, so that wasn’t the issue. Not sure why it doesn’t show up. It should, as when I “check in” I don’t know when we will be leaving, so always have to log in again and “check out” of the home. Using computer? If phone, maybe it is glitching. Also try clearing cache?

I think you first register her place and that gets approved. Then you have to go on a second time and check yourself into her house. That is what I had to do. Was a two step process the first time. Every other time we return it is just the check in process, not an approval

Also, are you a resident of France? I believe you need to be a resident to apply via this embassy.