@Bertil ********

I just applied from Portugal and they did not require that from me...that was in may

good luck though!!! Im in Laos right now doing my visa lol

@Paul ******

Im not sure how it works in Cambodia. Like in Portugal it was a 2 year process to get a residency card which has my photo on it. That is what was required from the Portugal Thai Embassy. Cambodia is very different though....

So basically if you are trying to apply for one of those types of visas you have to look at the local embassy website. For example, in Portugal - I had to show residency in Portugal as I am American to apply for any sort of Thai visa.

Get a new passport

Update I asked a tuktuk driver and he traded me

@Stephen ******

just got a tuk tuk driver to do it :)

@Falcon ******

okay awesome! I will do that! That is what one guy was saying...will send the husband in the morning to find out

@Noppakhun **************

omg thank u I need that! We just got stuck in the rain for an hour. But it was fun a local Lao family invited us in, fed us and gave us beer haha

@Falcon ******

yup.....so basically the banks won't do it, and most of the small currency exchanges have Recently shut down by the government. So the ones we can find will only do kip.

So we have a atm card so we can withdraw kip just getting the Thai baht for the visa is difficult

It's my fault for not reading the check list carefully as I didn't see until tonight they only accept Thai baht.

I expected them to take local currency as a few months ago I applied for a visa in Europe and they accepted local currency