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.

You either need to get the embassy in Tokyo to void your current/valid visa (which may be difficult to do) or wait for it to expire then apply then.

Anonymous participant - a letter from your employer. If you don’t have one, some sort of letter showing how you will survive

You had 500K in your bank for 3 months? You stated “proof of deposit” which isn’t a bank statement, for 3 months. Also, you state employment certificate, but does it say you can work remotely from Thailand?

@Wannikea ********

correct - If you went via the German embassy, they would supply a link to the global website