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As the title of this video suggests, we are discussing Thai Visa processing at Embassies and Consulates outside of Thailand. Since March 2020 and the promulgation of provisions of Thai Law and Regulation pertaining to both the pandemic during the Emergency Decree days, and now we are kind of dealing with the aftermath of this especially on a regulatory level, Thai Visas are processing very differently than they were at the beginning of 2020.

There is a digital system now where there once wasn't: we are no longer dealing with Certificates if Entry, thank God but we are still in a situation where it is not the process it once was. It used to be possible, especially in the days of Honorary Consulates in the United States, to mail a packet of documentation into the Honorary Consulate and have one’s passport back oftentimes with a one-year Visa albeit a one-year multi entry Visa but a one year visa, you could usually get that back in a few days. Now it takes real time. The apparatus that is in place now requires a great deal of documentation associated with Visa issuance and the digital interface because you are oftentimes there is kind of a back end to this especially with the Non-Immigrant Visas. The Business Visas, O-A Retirement Visas, even O Marriage Visas, all of these have a back end where there is somebody back there adjudicating and scrutinizing these applications, it can take some time. Now exactly how much time, it is going to vary from Embassy to Embassy and Consulate to Consulate. Consulates kind of report to an Embassy within their Consular jurisdiction but even within the same jurisdiction for example the Royal Thai Consulate in Los Angeles may have a totally different set of processing times than the Royal Thai Consulate in New York or Chicago, it just may be different. Even though Washington DC which is ostensibly sort of overseeing all of them, they may have a totally different set of processing times so the protocols may be the same but due to staffing or other concerns, there just may be different types of processing times, different duration of processing times associated with getting a Visa through one of these posts.

So the thing to take away from this video from Embassy to Embassy, it's going to vary in terms of timing and from Consulate to Consulate it could even very in terms of timing and all of these are very different than the process of getting a Visa Extension through Thai Immigration here in the Kingdom of Thailand.