@Robert ********

thank, would be interested, but have a suspicion the the Thai immigration authorities are probably asking embassies for solid guarrantee of income, in light of the US lose process that they started cracking down on recently. So would be interesting to know what they asked of the UK embassy that they said no to and ended up canning the process.

@Jp ******

I've been prepared from the day before and had all my previously prepared letters and statements pushed back at me and told that they needed to be done on the day of application. That's why I went embassy way, so easy and simple.

CW only accept a letter issued on the day of extension application and want to see a transaction in the account on that day as well.

@Jp ******

With the bank option I to wait for the bank before queuing then am stuck at CW for most of the day

Time's the issue, I prefer to get to CW early, queue, get early interview and finished in 30 mins.

The UK embassy needed to see evidence of your income and if they were satisfied with the evidence you sent them they detailed this on the letter they sent to for immigration. As it happens I sent them tax info which they accepted. Sounds similar to the Dutch system. My guess is that the Thai immigration services want more.

@Steve ******

embassy application online, simple, letter returned by post, no visit to embassy required.

@Steve ******

at Chiang Wattana?

You have to make a transaction in the account on the day of application and get a statement on the day of application. This all make preparation very difficult.

Embassy letter easy, fill in a form, send evidence of income to embsssy and go to immigration with complete paper work already and complete.

I take the opportunity to travel every 90 days rather than do the 90 days reporting.

Just completed my extention at Chiang Wattana 2 weeks back with no 90 day reports over the last year and no problem.

This is a big blow.

The embassy affidavit route was so much easier than the hoops one has to jump through by going through the bank account process.