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4 hours ago, Deez said:

6 cases and you want to close the province? Not everyone collects a pension

6 cases in Ubon and they're not on the list[if the list is correct????]

11 hours ago, internationalism said:

There are now 7 provinces (Khon Kaen, Bueng Kan, Buriram, Sakon Nakhon, Surin, Nakhon Ratchasima and Prachuap Khiri Khan) that have ordered 14 day quarantine for those people arriving from the “red zones” during the Songkran

 

14 day quarantine in Songkran ? Good luck with that

5 hours ago, Surelynot said:

I would say, at a conservative estimate, over 50% of the motorbikes (plus sidecars) in and around our village have one or both lights out......and those that do have lights rarely put them on until it is pitch black.

They think It saves the battery 

Yep great idea.No covid in India is there?

16 minutes ago, richard_smith237 said:

 

Mileage varies...  Sorry to hear of your troubles getting out of Australia - but thats an Australia thing, not an application for CoE ‘thing’ - I get your point that the Vaccination passport may open things up for Austalian's to travel, but again, thats up to the Australian government and not related to the ‘hoop jumping’ as mentioned when referring to Thailands CoE process.

 

I received my CoE in 3 hrs... I didn’t have to get out of my seat

 

If I didn’t already have insurance, the hardest part would be getting the insurance and certificate (that previously took 24 hrs when applying for my first CoE back in July). I have the marriage cert, copy of my Visa & Extension of stay. Booking a hotel on Agoda took minutes, I have the flight booking already (but booking a flight online takes minutes).

 

What else is there that makes the CoE application more complex ?? 

 

 

Driving licence: The hardest part is getting the proof of residence (letter from Immigration of Embassy, or Yellow book). 

I have the Yellow book, I still have to get a medical certificate, then go to the DLT, do 4 tests (colour perception, colour blindness, depth perception, reaction tests,), then sit through a 40min video, then wait for Licence printing.

 

The CoE application process itself really is very simple. 

It's also called a Cof E here[ Certificate of Exit.] My  Thai driving licence I can do with a trip with my landlady to get a cert.from the tourist police office,.Medical cert. I get in 5 minutes outside the DLT.Then run through the  couple of hour BS tests movie etc.Hoops are hoops Australian Thai or otherwise. I'd be prepared to look at  the Thai hoops if the Aussie Hoops were easier.Then again the consul in my city is shut so I'd have to do things by email  perhaps through Canberra. Or try and make an appointment by emial then travel to the office etc etc..It was so much easier to just give my stuff to the local travel agent [closed]who sent it to their visa agent[closed].Then in a few days pick up my passport and visa.Or arrive on a 30day visa exemption and work it all out over there.Anyway,whatever,YVMV

50 minutes ago, richard_smith237 said:

 

What will change with the vaccination passport ????

 

Unless every travel requirement is abolished there will always be a ‘hoop' to jump through... 

 

The CoE hoops are all family basic and streamlined... certainly much much simpler than a passport application or an extension of stay.... 

 

If making a ‘hoop jumping comparison’ the CoE ‘hoop’ is easier than renewing a Thai Driving licence.

 

 

 

 Nice use of the ????? .When I am in Thailand I go to the dept of Transport and renew my licence one stop shop.Same with an extension of stay. a Trip into immigration and sort it out..Easy. So your comparison isn't valid.The worst hoop of travel from Australia atm is getting an exit visa.A friend who has a Thai wife and child and lives in Thailand was recently refused an exit permit  for the purpose of joining his wife.He then got it by showing he'd spent more time out of the country than in it .I haven't.It'd be close but no cigar.Mine ,[which you need to apply for to the immigration dept here], would probably be about 45% Thailand 55% Australia for the last 20 + yrs. .They also ask for a compelling reason.If my friends reason of going back to his wife and child wasn't compelling enough then I don't have one! and that's before the ASQ, flight booking and payment, buying Insurance,obtaining a visa,fit to fly certificate,covid test.Cof E, from the Thai end.

On 3/7/2021 at 5:09 PM, user70 said:

After applying for special tourist visa then CoE, I don't think this is worth trying. So many headaches! Accomodation confirmation rejected, incorrect Transit date on my certificate of entry, major pain to get insurance, most physicians have no clue how to do a fit to fly certificate, getting a covid-19 test followed by the fit to fly certificate try to departure is very tight, if the flight get delayed then your covid-19 test may be more than 72 hours before departures, incoherent instructions to apply for the certificate of entry from different sources, embassy employees being indif if you miss your flight, overpriced accomodation for the ASQ etc. I've spent way too much time and money on this, which I could have better spent taking some vacation in a more friendly country (eg mexico). I created this profile on this forum to get some information to help me apply to the visa and CoE, and I've posted over 80 messages just because everything is so messed up. Not even counting several direct private messages, my dozen of calls to the embassy, etc. I've traveled to almost 100 countries and this is one of the worst experience I've had.

 

The older I get the less patience I have [never had much to begin with] for the bureaucratic dancing required for the normal procedures, without the hoops to jump through now required .I will wait it out and hope the vaccination passports bring some sense to the process.I plan on having my knee replacement done in the meantime anyway.

10 hours ago, Artisi said:

Certainly agree to a point, unfortunately it has got completely out of hand and now only viewed as a massive income source - it certainly needs pulling back into line and treated as it should be - nothing wrong with a few street parades and water throwing, but within reason.

Yes,I agree  "within reason" but how you achieve that is the problem.

2 hours ago, Phuketshrew said:

It's not just the speed that's the problem. Most drivers here have no concept of safe distancing or stopping distances and most are incapable of performing an effective emergency stop. 

They are good at the "Rabbit caught in the headlights" Freeze ,when the unexpected happens though.

Looks better than the average BMW  IMO???? The old ones R 60? looked good too.

1 minute ago, natway09 said:

That is why the Visa & extension is clearly marked "Non"

We are just a guest in their country, get over it

Even being a taxpayer for 27 years   I realize that will need to pay for it

I'm surprised this is even a topic.Of course Farang will need to pay for their vaccine

Yes!  bloody foreigners are responsibile for the virus! They should be forced into inoculation stations and pay for the vaccine ! Then brand them all as having had the jab.????

I have seen a motorcycle using RED headlights in a rain storm.

11 hours ago, ThailandRyan said:

Figures, figures are not the Thai governments specialty 

Rubbery figures are

"China, where the first Covid-19 case was found in Wuhan, was excluded from the index due to the unavailability of data." 

Well that's ok then????

10 hours ago, Histavia said:

Somehow many people seem to feel that any investigation will either not be thorough or somewhat biased toward saving Navy face?

Ya reckon? Wow.

Yeah let's have another Probe! Amazing Thailand!

Not Feb 14th or 16th? Wow ! I like Thai precision!

1 minute ago, Jonathan Swift said:

I bet some underpaid, overworked government employee retaliated against this guy, making BS excuses for cutting him off, probably couldn't handle an upset and frantic person calling them out on their mistakes. The Australian government ought to be ashamed of itself. This has been going on long enough, measures for helping stranded citizens should be firmly in place and effective by now.

I agree the Australian gov't shoud be doing more to help stranded citizens instead of allowing  their millionaire mates and  entertainers to drop in and self -isolate.

3 hours ago, pattayadude said:

dream on!...maybe 12-13!

???? This is Thailand  though.They are always very liberal with the use of zeros in their accounting