@CT ******

what he said :)

@Robert *******

Thank You. Much appreciated. I will certainly not be wasting anytime when I get there, hence this post giving me a few weeks to get my head in to gear ready to hit the ground running.

@Dca ****

mixed experience. You can only apply online, not in person. create an account with the thai visa website. As you apply it will direct you which embassy to select in a drop down menu for the application. In my case I am closest to Penang but KL was an option. I guess that is incase they need to call you in for an interview. I proper messed up by wasting money by unwittingly applying for a tourist visa first. It was too late to go back and cancel it as I had paid the fee, so I wasted some money there, not sure what will become of that application now. The day after, having realised my mistake, I applied for the O visa. I am going from penang to hat yai by private hire car and submitted the passenger list from the hire company as proof of travel. They then came back and asked to see my driving licence and vehicle registration, which I obviously don't have as going by hire car. I created a pdf in google docs writing a few lines explaining that I don't have a car and going by hire car, pasted in the passenger list to the pdf and submitted that. Other than that I submitted 3 months bank statments in one pdf showing my balance, a new photo, entry stamp in to malaysia where I am now, which they also asked for afterwards, Passport main page, and that was it. I applied to Penang online around 12 days ago, came through this morning. The O visa is really easy to apply for online. Getting the paperwork ready first to upload is a must. You can only upload 3mb files so that can be tricky. It's good that you don't have to do the application in one go, you can save and come back as you want to, to update and continue the application, but you have a limit of two weeks before incomplete applications are deleted from thier system and you have to start again.

@Grant ******

I have a condo rental for the first month while I sort things out, I have been there before. The rental agent has three condos for me to see. cheers

@Jay ******

i have long time family friends in penang so being close to the border is handy. Im also not interested in the stereotypical farang haunts up north 😆

@Wannikea ********

perfect. thankyou 🥰 kasikorn seem the best option.

@Archit ********

because I don't and won't use AI for anything other than what my phone does with photo editing but thanks anyway

@Dca ****

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@Brandon ***********

points out, I need a lease first and then bank but thanks for commenting

@Brandon ***********

wicked. So helpful. Im aware of most of the rules, just getting things in the right order within the right time. This is easy to do. I can get my condo address and lease sorted in the first few days. I've got a condo rental chap ready to meet me when I get there. Many thanks.

Carry on regardless