Makes sense. I never understood why they didn’t do that in the first place, seems like the whole point of having the system set up this way. 🤓

Oh, and on the account page your application status starts as fee paid (and remains as this until after you have delivered original documents. If they accept your application it then changes to “printing sticker”.

Last update. Successful application today! Had my appointment this morning. Delivered original documents that had already been uploaded (plus a few extra bank statements that I could not fit in the pdf file). All accepted and will collect visa tomorrow. The new procedure for the e visa process is actually an additional step. As taking in originals and collection is the same as before. The amount of documents needed and copies thereof have been reduced though, when compared to my previous application 2 years ago.

@Toby *******

that’s good news for me I hope 🤞

@Rob *******

OA visa from London.

Really pleased for you. I’ve got my walk in appointment for this Monday. I’m actually really nervous about my income paperwork and the fact that they no longer specifically state that a combined method is ok. If it’s not I’m screwed as my house rental which was baht a month 2 years ago is currently valued at about a month 😱 because if exchange rate. I do have additional savings in excess of the required amount to bring up years total to above 800,000. So fingers crossed.

@Ron ******

I think it will be a very serious problem for the many applicants going forward who are not overly computer literate. So, I predict it will be an opportunity for “agents”.

I didn’t see any reference to pdf files. However it definitely accepts them now. (I think they may have tweaked it since Saturday as when I first tried to upload one it wouldn’t accept it). The manual definitely states jpg only.

OK. Good news! I have managed to attach all my required documents! I did this by rescanning the documents at the lowest dpi I had ( thanks for the suggestion above) 75 dpi. For single page files this made all files small enough to attach as pdf files. The bank statement file, I combined 6 pages into 1 pdf file, then had to reduce the file size further using free software online. Using 75 dpi scans and having only 6 pages I managed to get a file size of 0.4 mb, which was less than the maximum 0.5 mb. Hard work and it took me several hours overall. Its done though. I will not actually submit application until next week as that is when I return to UK and will collect the last piece of paperwork (criminal record check) which is waiting for me at my UK address.

I’ve stopped for today. I’ll go to round 3 tomorrow. I’ll keep you updated 🤓