MadMac

2 minutes ago, Toany said:

I wonder what else Bangkok hospital is doing.  Think I'll give that hospital a miss

It is not Bangkok Hospital, just a hospital in Bangkok, somewhere in Chaeng Wattana.

Perhaps the guy is eying the job of the next health minister, or just looking for an inactive post. Either way, my wife put it together in one word - "idiot".

Pointless argument, but comes again and again. Nobody needs an overpriced Thai insurance with a maximum coverage of perhaps 500k or 1m THB that in the event required does not pay. If you cannot afford to pay such 500k out of your savings you are in the wrong place. Stay at home and don't travel the world.

Just because you may not be able to afford it, still you are here, does not mean that the rest of us should finance more glass palaces for the insurance mafia.

The simple problem is that nobody wants to take any responsibility for anything in this country. Just look at all the back and forth things, one day this, next day that. So for the amnesty, I believe it will only be decided (and perhaps changed again) mid of July earliest.

4 hours ago, Huckenfell said:

I previously applied for and received an O-A visa shortly before the borders closed i returned to my country for some medical treatment, however i was only 5 months into my visa but now stranded outside of Thailand. Question is, why dont the Thai govt credit me with the 7 months which i paid for , when the borders open, but cannot at the present time use.

Your stay in Thailand starts when you enter the country. That can be at the last day of validity of your visa. At least that is the case for normal O. Thus you do not need any credit of lost months as you did not lose anything.

16 minutes ago, katatonic said:

I'm quite happy with my visa on arrival stamps thanks. Had a couple of visa based on marriage but mainly just arrival stamps which worked fine for me for the last 11 years. And this is home.

You did not get visa on arrival stamps, these are visa exemptions. Because of people abusing this facility over the years we got all these sticter and stricter requirements. 

9 hours ago, Teee said:

You are a tourist too...even if you have lived in Thailand for 25 years on a visa...your just a tourist.

 

Change your attitude please.

 

Thanks

Just because you don't want to go home and enjoyed a free ride so far, does not excuse you from following immigration law and rules. Either get a proper visa or extension or leave for your home country when the amnesty ends.

8 minutes ago, worgeordie said:

That would be you then ?

Yeah, I knew this would come. Fair enough ????

4 minutes ago, worgeordie said:

So you are 100 % sure all extensions are excluded until at least 31 st July,

based on the words of one Immigration officer at Chiang Mai Immigration ?

OK, but pleased I did mine and did not wait.

regards worgeordie

Again, feel free to read it. Or live on whatever you read in forums from people who always know better. Waste of my time. And yes, I did my extension at due date. You can read that also here ????

9 minutes ago, worgeordie said:

Why wait till after 31 July or will it be end September,when all immigration offices are going to be pandemonium,

That was not the point at all, It was simply about the false information in the very first posting that extensions of stay would be excluded. Has been explained multiple times now here in this thread, so please feel free to read it.

7 minutes ago, DrJack54 said:

What do you mean. Forget about flying into Thailand for some time. Even if possible there maybe expensive costs

Chances are flights get more expensive with the amnesty ending and CAAT still not opening up scheduled commercial flights. Then you have a lot of people need to leave and only a few seats left. So it's a bit of gamble if you are already at the limit with your permits.

It is all in this thread, you just need to read it.

If you had a previous extension, the renewed one will be backdated to the exact same day. Same is the case for marriage where you get the one month under consideraton. Extension date will also be backdated. If you come earlier, you also get the some previous date stamped.

1 minute ago, CorpusChristie said:

Yes, you posted that four hours ago in this thread .

Why do we bother you so much ?

You don't, enjoy your time. Will be over soon enough ????

There are still quite a number playing the game until it ends, particularly on the islands, who have no intention to go home. And certainly these are not the high roller quality tourists Thailand is eying. 

14 minutes ago, jackdd said:

Who told you so?

Really? Not even knowing the simplest facts? A renewed extension is always valid for the exact time frame as the previous one, starting from the first date granted. So if you got your first one today and get it renewed next year 2 weeks earlier, they will both expire at 26 June the year after.

10 minutes ago, CorpusChristie said:

You begrudge people staying here on the Visa amnesty , because you had to go through the hoops to get a long term Visa and they didnt and you think thats unfair ?

   I want to stay in Thailand and I dont want to go back to my own Country , Thailand wants me here as well . 

  If you dont want me here.................I can live with that 

Nope, just stating simple facts. Nobody needs to risk overstay, there are enough flights out available.

If you want to stay long-term you should follow rules and procedures in place as everybody else.

1 minute ago, smedly said:

has your extension expired ?

No, I did it in due time. As I changed from Thai wife to retirement they still wanted to have a KR22 form from the Amphoe (proof of marriage for the last year).

And as I had to go there and get this, they clearly told me, 2 persons independently, in very clear simple words, that I have time till 31st July to renew my extension. That was in Chiang Mai.

5 minutes ago, TigerandDog said:

WRONG.  Extensions of stay based on Retirment and marriage STILL MUST be done when they are due.

Whatever, people too lazy to read having opinions. Thanks ????

3 minutes ago, smedly said:

plus it was posted on here numerous times with long discussions that 12 month extensions were NOT included in the amnesty 

I'd suggest you try reading from the beginning. Perhaps your local IO does not do it, CM and CW do,

5 minutes ago, bestie said:

I think real tourists don't really care. They will move on somewhere else. I can't really understand the meaning of your sentence.Let me correct it.: 

Thai Hotel owners be aware soon more tourists will move out, you will lose more money and probably go bankrupt.

That would make more sense.

Again, no need to interpret anything here. What I wrote was pretty clear.

1 minute ago, newnative said:

Thanks but I was asking not about 90 day extensions but about reporting that I still had 400,000 baht in my bank account. There was a requirement that you have to return in 90 days after your yearly extension to show you still have the money in the account--I use the 800,000 baht method.  I was wondering if this requirement had been suspended with the covid situation.  

Yes, ok, I took it for the normal 90 days report. This seems also to differ between IOs, no such requirement in CM, at least they do not tell anyone about it ????