what do you not understand? They can take a long long time and they refuse to issue the visa once you leave the country where you requested it, in our case France.
We missed our deadline as well after 5 weeks of waiting. They will not issue after you left the country (even though in our case we would only enter Thailand 2 weeks later).
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