Anonymous participant 173 not refused. That would be an application rejected. This was application cancelled.

Should be possible, but the school is the one you need to be asking to make sure. They'll have to submit to the ministry of education for approval.

The bank doesn't care. The employee you are talking to has a checklist. If you don't have what's on that checklist, then they will not help you. Employees in Thailand are not allowed to think, go outside of what they are told, or even question what they are told. Initiative is frowned upon. Your only chance is talking to the bank manager, but then they would have to go against their own policy to give you an account which would make them look wrong, so not likely to happen. Best thing to do is move onto the next bank branch, since each branch manager sets the policy for that bank branch.

It's only been 4 business days since you applied. You probably won't hear anything until next week at the earliest. But even before Songkran, the timeline for the embassies in Vietnam have been getting longer.

@Jonathan *****

I'm not contesting it's 3+12, I'm contesting that it's not a 15 month visa. It's a 3 month visa plus a 12 month extension.

@Caress *****

I've literally never heard of a single person posting about such a thing happening across multiple Facebook groups and multiple years

@Michael *****

It's not a 15 month visa. It's the 90 day non-O plus 1-year extension, but they get both in one trip to immigration.

These are the official requirements published by CW.

@Ivan *******

Okay, so you applied for non-OA visa. The first question is, are you sure this is the visa you want, with the required health insurance, and the other things like background check, health check, etc? If you start with an OA visa, you will be required to keep this insurance forever, every year if you want to extend in Thailand, you have to purchase another year of the mandatory insurance.

Most people want a non-O, so there is no insurance requirement, and they extend annually with the 800,000 in a thai bank account.

But to answer your specific question, the only way you can use your own insurance is if they fill out the certificate from the embassy website and sign it. 99.9% of insurance companies will not do this, which means you must buy a policy from one of the Thai insurance companies on the approved list from the embassy.

@Michael *****

Depends on the location. In Pattaya they get the entire 15 months all at once. But that makes it super obvious next year if you try to do it yourself that you used an agent, because that's impossible normally.