no, the rule came into effect as of 1st March 2019.

There was, last week, a scam exposed on various Filipino Facebook sides involving a Company in Bangkok that cooperated with a company in Phuket to obtain fraudulent Non B, so they check documents and they also check with airline about the booking of flight. If you plan to use our service, please make sure that all in order. Savannakhet is aware of these things.

The staff advised various customer from Phuket and Pattaya that they can not get Tourist visa here if warning stamp in passport, obviously your case is different, but I can not ask now. He mentioned as long as paperwork is OK people can apply Non Immigrant there.

no, I can not answer that question.

We were told today that this service has been stopped with immediate effect. Not available anymore.

Update, today no more selling queue outside the Embassy. I think that hole they stopped.

@Ron *****************

I would love to be able to answer your question, but too any things do not make sense at the moment. This Consulate is new 3-4 years old, it was build on purpose to handle the increasing number of applications and now the turnaround ?

I am not aware of that. This booking system is not part of their global vision.

@Ron *****************

this all does not make sense. If that guy is high level he should have approached all companies and talked to us, give a quota and sale for THB500 each, easy money for the rest of the lifetime of this system. Now he sit on a bomb.

@Ron ******

no, this is local system only. They crosscheck the paper visually at the Entrance.