For Americans the US embassy lets us get new passports through them. Other than that, what does the embassy do? As far as I can tell the embassy hires Thais to decide whether Thais applying for a visa to the USA will get the visa and the embassy does a good job of kissing the asses of high ranking Thai politicians and others they consider to be VIPs.
If there is anything else of any significance the embassy does, would someone please inform me? I was already annoyed that the embassy won't provide expats proof-of-income statements anymore, not even for those of us who can actually prove our income. One excuse is they're too busy to deal with it. Too busy? Busy doing what?
But their refusal to see that Americans in Thailand get vaccinated in my opinion is reprehensible. I didn't know that choosing to live my life as an expat makes me a second class citizen.
The embassy's usual excuse is their hands are tied by orders from the State Department. If that is true, then who in the State Department came up with those orders and why? Nobody ever tells us that part.