if all else fails and you're 100% certain your documents and information were correct jist go and apply from another embassy. Taipei are quite quick with issuing
when a number becomes inactive they disable it for X amount of time and then its reintroduce into the pool of available numbers after that X amount of time of it being out of service.
nope, the Thai Australian Embassies were the only embassies that allowed it to be in a bank outside of Thailand, Thai embassy in Sydney is the only embassy that allows it now