@John ********

This meaningful comment got a lot of negativity. I strongly agree with the idea that embassies look at people's passports, not the full records. Following this logic, yes, a new passport may make getting the DTV more likely.

Of course, IOs have access to everything, but once a visa has been issued they shouldn't care much about problems from years ago.

Before that

To me it is one of the nonsense fields on the form, but just put a date about 175 days from your intended date of entry to be safe.

@Greg *******

I think they don't. Why would they ask to see all passport pages if they could easily check all visas, entries and exits by passport number?

I provided my boarding pass too

How long did it take?

@Frederic **********

thank you. I guess it's not difficult to find THB in Vientiane 🙂

Congrats! How did you pay the visa fee? I see it is listed as THB, but what do people do if they don't have it in cash on them? Does the embassy in Vientiane accept credit cards?