Maestro

Not simple enough for me, it seems. I used the simplest method of calculating the ckeck digit of a Thai ID card number and it did not work out. There seem to be a variety of systems and I have no idea what system is used for the Thai ID card: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Check_digit?wprov=sfla1

At what immigration office was this?

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And from Thai PBS World, as quoted in https://aseannow.com/topic/1253975-thailand-drops-pre-departure-rt-pcr-tests-for-overseas-arrivals-allows-songkran-celebrations/ "The Centre for COVID-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) has agreed to cancel the requirement for pre-departure RT-PCR tests for international arrivals, effective from April 1st..."

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What app is it that you are using? I may want to install it on my phone, too.

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You will have a problem with your non-O extension if you go to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to get it.

The way I understand the system for booking an appointment at the MFA, everybody has an equal right and opportunity to book an appointment, regardless of immigration status, nationality, profession or place of residence.

I believe the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) does not confirm translations, but it verifies and cofirms the authenticity of the translator's signature.

According to the news, Russia will be removed from SWIFT after they bomb Kyiv to smithereens and occupy the whole county.

[email protected] opm in this email address stands for Office of the Prime Minister. There is also [email protected] and the report form on the website www.1111.go.th Whichever route you chose, make your report in an objective, factual and non-belligerent manner. Please keep us posted about the outcome of your report. I have seen news reports about common people getting positive action.

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Congratulations! Let's see who will break this record for the quickest approval under TP version2.

It is good to see these first-hand reports of Thailand Pass approvals. So far, minimum time 20 hours, maximum 6 days. It is also good to see that priority is given to processing of applications for flights that are very soon after the application date. Another thought: sometimes or perhaps mostly, the hotel for the PCR test on day 1 and for the test on day 5 is the same. When this is the case, there is one verification step less and this reduces processing time.

From the approval within one hour I have seen under version 1 of T&G and your approval within three days under version 2, the verification process is obviously highly automated. Nobody types passport numbers or other details from the passport's ID page into the computer. The machine-readable code is read automatically and compared to available databases as necessary. The vaccination certificate's QR code of EU-style certificates and some other countries with whom Thailand has made arrangements is verified automatically. Nobody is holding a QR reader over the codes. The confirmation of the hotel reservations goes through OCR and the computer automatically sends out the sequential requests to the hotels for click-confirmation. Etcetera. This is how imagine this happening, when an applicant uploads clearly legible images of the requested documents. It is the hotels' click-confirmation added onto version 2 that is slowing down the new process. (Did under version 1 perhaps too many applicants upload fake reservation confirmations?)

No. From the video it is very clear that she is a co-owner of a business that offers (sells) a service to assist with Thailand Pass applications. Therefore, in addition to giving us insight into how the approval process works, she is indirectly promoting her business. Nothing wrong with that, of course, in my opinion.

Do you personally know of any Thailand Pass application made under the new rules, ie on or after 1 February 2022, that was approved within "a few hours"?

This situation cannot arise according to the information given in the video, because hotel 2 will get the request to click-approve only if and after hotel 1 has click-approved.

It might help if you gave a link to the info you were looking at.

Continued here: https://aseannow.com/topic/1248334-thailand-pass-scam/

The OP's question having been answered satisfactorily, this topic is now closed.

The part about the medical certificate of recovery from Covid-19 was not there in the earlier Thailand Pass rules.

Thank you, Confuscious, for the additional information. I am glad to see that you have things well in hand and I shall now stay out of this topic.