If you do not have a university degree in any subject, you can not legally get a work permit to teach. Your university degree also has to be certified as being real

@Shash ********

understand that as soon as short wait times are reported publicly at any embassy throngs of applicants flock to that embassy, and the queue get longer, as you are experiencing. Deal with it if you want the visa. The same happened in Vietnam. It's not as though you are the only one applying. There are hundreds applying daily there now, as it is the closest embassy.

You can legally have a bank account, although hard to get. That's not the problem. The problem will be the cost to your employer to transfer your wages into your Thai bank account, as it is not free to do. It can be very expensive.

You'll be fine, just spend time in Vietnam that a normal tourist would. The visa exempt 60 day entry isn't changing anytime soon.

@Todd ********

lolol, just in the small city I was in before I moved here there were 14 overstays from Thailand that I knew personally, and that wasn't counting their family members also here.

@Todd ********

you'd be surprised what they have access to, and what access the application itself gave them in investigating her background.

@Steve **************

there are enough that have stayed over the years that it is not uncommon.

@Ter *****

I hope she has regularly filed her Thai income taxes, as if she hasn't that is usually automatic rejection.

You can bring as much cash as you want. You simply have to declare everything at, or over US$20k, or the equivalent.

For you there is only one as listed by Wayne. You don't have a choice.