@George ********

I have no problem. It is quite clear London embassy made a mistake, for language education there is another visa in place. I think you can easily continue muay thai for five years if you want, but nobody forces you to do so, but you will not get a refund for the years you cannot use the visa anymore because the soft power activity ended.

@George ********

Why are you glad Thai embassy in London made mistakes?

ED visa is for eductation, learning language is education.

Is it that important to you to save a few baht?

Besides that miost language courses do not last 5 years, so you might loose validity time of the visa of find another qualification ground when your language course finishes.

@George ********

I fully believe you got approved for DTV, but that is only because of the interpretation of the London embassy at that moment.

Deciding about this is done by humans, so mistakes are made.

I'm sure people got approved who should not be approved, and also people got rejected that should not be rejected.

@George ********

I can understand you see learning a language might be seen as cultural in some way, but normally the ED visa would matching this betterand the rule is you should get the visa for your purpose of stay.

@Robert *********

Since you cannot see difference between 60 days and 180 days, I guess it is useless to discuss this. It has nothing at all to do with scam, different service means different price, you pay for what you get, no matter what seller had to pay for it.

But you are in good company, even the president of the US does not understand basic principles of economy and mathematics.

What is your point? When you book a borderrun you also have the price before you book!

When you order a taxi or bolt you do not need a visa, so what do you want to tell?

@Mike ******

It isn't, some embassies did approve, probably mistaken because wjhat would have learning Thai language have to do with soft power?

@George ******

DTV is certainly not the only visa you can get when you are over 49, because non-o retirement starts at 50.

DTV is not an education visa, so your remark "Learning is learning" is totally meaningless here, DTV is for soft power and remote work, scuba diving also has nothing to do with soft power,

The fact that some embassies did approve thai language as soft power does not mean it really is a valid soft power item.

In effect with retirement non-o you pay more when you leave the country, with DTV you pay more when you want to stay in the country.

@Adrian *********

let me try with the most simple example I can think of right now. When I transfer and exchange money the fee is higher when the amount of money is higher. Everybody sees this as perfectly normal, but for the bank, the cost of transferring the small amount is exactly the same as for the large amount.