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On 12/18/2020 at 4:22 PM, lovethai123 said:

 Are u in one of those countries that have approved the pfizer vaccine? When do u expect to be vaccinated? Is there any chance to get it asap by telling it to authorities that your family lives abroad and u need to vaccinated so u could visit them?

 

lets hope Thailand shows some sense and allows vaccinated people to visit without quarantine. 

Australia has announced that even if vaccinated at this stage you will still need to quarantine.

This is on the basis that even if vaccinated you could still be” a carrier” and infect others.

On 12/17/2020 at 5:19 PM, Scofield said:

Having some bizarre conversations with the hotel I’m looking at. I can’t order food apart from the set Covid menu for even if I pay extra? Makes no sense.

 

After day 7 they allow you to either go to the gym or sit outside but not both and you must make your choice 7 days in advance. What on Earth is going on???

Count yourself lucky that they let you leave the room.

When you go into quarantine in Australia you stay in the room for 14 days and cannot even open the windows.

18 hours ago, ivor bigun said:

Using track and trace my parcel left the UK on the 4th ,but just says in transit ,nothing about arriving here in Thailand ,anyone else had this problem? 

I recently had two parcels sent from Australia using EMS both took about two weeks rather than a couple of days.

You have to understand these are not normal times and without regular flights you have to expect delays.

22 hours ago, MRJOHNNY said:

Think you will find the U.K. have tested well over half of the population already, approx. 40 million plus tests completed to date, so the possibility of doing the same in Thailand whose population is about 3 million more than the U.K. is not beyond reality. 

Yes but Thailand doesn’t have the problems that they have in the UK, unless you listen to the prophets of doom on this site.

On 12/17/2020 at 8:15 AM, jakestevernson said:

richard_smith237

 

I have made an appointment with the Embassy and a fee has been paid online.

 

Will I need to make an appointment with the MFA to get the notarized/certified copy of passport translated?

 

Thanks JS

Before you go down the road of obtaining the documentation it might be preferable to visit your local Amphur ( District Office) and check on their requirements as it varies from office to office.

From some of the posts on this site some offices it seems require very little documentation.

When I obtained my blue book a few years ago they wanted everything apart from a photograph of the dog.

18 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

Its clear from a number of threads on this very subject that the requirements to apply for the Yellow Tabien Baan house book at each Amuphur office around Thailand varies. Some are a lot easier than others which require quite a lot of paper work: 

 

My Experience: 

- Booked Appointment (wait time was about a month)

- Obtained a Notarised Copy of Passport (from your Embassy - you may need to make an appointment)

- Had the Notarised Copy of Passport ID page translated (at translations service at MFA Chaeng Wattana)

- Had the Translation of Notarised Copy of Passport ID page verified by Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Chaeng Wattana)

- Turned up at Appointment time (with a Thai Witness and My Wife)

- Witness needed ID

- Wife needed plenty of documentation - Thai ID, Marriage certificate, Blue Tabien Baan Book etc

 

The process itself takes a couple of hours - its a lot of paper work for the Amphur officer to complete while you just wait around. 

The Pink ID card takes about 15 mins and is very quick (worth getting on the same day). 

 

Important: Ensure YOUR name on your Marriage Certificate (in Thai) exactly matches the Thai Translation of your name on your Marriage certificate. 

My process and requirements were similar to yours although it suddenly became simpler when a small brown envelope was produced.

Unfortunately the inconsistencies don’t end when the book and ID card are obtained.

I live in Chiang Mai Province, where the DLT head office in Chiang Mai will accept the ID card as proof of address for renewing the driving licences, but my local office will not.

Just part of the rich tapestry of living in Thailand and they did give me the licences for six years.

On 12/11/2020 at 2:57 PM, Thaidaddy said:

there are others that will be available

Not according to Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt.

He was quoted in today’s Australian about it being “rolled out” in March

According to earlier reports it will not initially be available to everyone.

The vaccines available are yet to be approved by the Australian Health Authorities.

19 hours ago, Leaver said:

"The fate of Thai expats" lays in the hands of the Thai government, and always has, not in the hands of their Thai wife, as many think is the case, after they have handed over a portion of their wealth.  

 

As I have said in the past, you could be married to a Thai national here, have 2 children, a house, some land, a shop, a car, and a couple of motorbikes, but you have no more rights than a first time tourists to Thailand entering on a 30 visa exemption stamp. 

 

A fair pathway to residency does not exist here.

 

That means, all of the above emotional ties and financial ties here can mean mothing, next year, with a simple stroke of the pen in Bangkok, and you have to leave. 

 

So many expats see that 1 year tourist visa in their passport, and that's all it really is, as giving them a right to reside here, when it's simply not the case.

 

So, as we all know, only put into Thailand what you can afford to walk away from, completely, and ALWAYS have a Plan B for a day when you may not be able to live in Thailand anymore.   

 

You could also apply that “ fear” of having your residency cancelled to other countries as well.

Australia has cancelled the citizenship of certain dual citizenship residents after they were convicted of certain crimes, it would only take a further stroke of the pen to apply it to others.

The question is
Why would they ?

just as 

Why would the Thai Government ?

Me thinks you worry to much.

22 hours ago, Dazinoz said:

Fully understand and I would definitely pay. Last time for me not in a hurry so dint ask about payment option. And I am only about 15 minutes from immigration.

 

Been doing my 90 days online with no issues but this time telling me to goto office. Tried on different days but no luck. Would definitely be urined off if I had to travel 10 hours.

What in a way makes it worse is that I have a pink ID card, if I renew my driving licence at the DLT main office in Chiang Mai it’s accepted as proof of residence.

My local DLT office however will not accept it so it’s a case of economics, my local Immigration Office for a fee arrange the certificate and I save time and money.

They do however issue both licences for six years, so it’s swings and roundabouts.

If I was still  living in Australia I would be entitled to a free influenza vaccination every year and since I have got older a couple of others.

Since I have been in Thailand I have never been contacted by the Aus government asking if I would like them to send me one for free.

I don’t think anything will change with Covid, so I will continue doing what I have done for years, that is visiting my excellent private hospital and paying for the vaccine myself.

21 hours ago, sammieuk1 said:

Looks like it's only ASQ where the daily figures pro rata seems to be the global epicentre of transmission but it is a Thai disease control chief that's saying everyone has been found  ????

Who would you expect in Thailand to make the statement, an Australian, a Brit, an American ???

On 12/10/2020 at 11:50 AM, Dazinoz said:

Actually I wasn't given the opportunity to do so. Went it with necessary documents, lined up at desk, presented papers and given slip of paper to come back on a date 4 weeks later. Wasn't in a hurry so didn't care.

 

And why should a person open their wallet for a FREE service? Its people opening their wallets for free services that turns them into paid services.

Totally agree but if you want it quicker you have no option also for me it’s at least a five hour round trip so in your example that would be ten hours, cost me more in fuel.

28 minutes ago, Bigz said:

Consider yourself lucky. UK £ dropped from 75 to 40 bahts in the last 15 years. 

I was getting 29/30 baht plus for the $Aus ten years ago now we think it’s good when at 22 baht

18 minutes ago, Dazinoz said:

The last time I got one in Chiang Mai it was 4 weeks wait.

Obviously didn’t open your wallet

7 minutes ago, spidermike007 said:

Good try. When I used to visit CM twenty or thirty years ago, it was a delightful place. Now? It is over developed beyond my wildest imagination, chock full of traffic jams, due to a total lack of traffic mitigation, and the air quality is often as high as 500 for PM 2.5 - not something one wants to be taking into their lungs, for 6 months of the year. 

 

It does have its charms. But, the glory days are well behind it. 

Sounds like most of the places in different parts of the world I have re visited years later full of people, cars and congestion.

I watched Sydney grow the same over thirty years or more which is one reason I left.

1 hour ago, chilli42 said:

I recently returned to Thailand from Canada - 3 weeks ago.  The Thai consulate in Vancouver offered me a return on a “repatriation flight” whatever that is.  I told them no thanks as I had secured my own way back.  They were fine with that ... could not have cared less. I returned to Thailand  on the flight I arranged.  I am not aware of any specific discount airlines flying to Thailand as it’s not a very profitable business selling cheap tickets and flying airplanes around that are half empty.  BTW I returned to Thailand on China Airlines.  My own sense, speaking to other Thai’s and expats, is that each embassy and consulate has their own interpretation of what the rules pertaining to returning to Thailand ... just the regular incompetence exacerbated by distance from the mother ship.

The big difference is that the Thais do not pay for the quarantine, but you do.

Last year I deposited a Cheque from an airline in the UK with the Bangkok Bank.

The clearance time was fairly quick the fee from memory about 400 baht.

2 hours ago, Postmaster said:

Do they drive on the left in Vietnam ?

No the right,  I think you would have to have a death wish to drive in that country.

7 hours ago, ezzra said:

aits goes without saying that logistically it would be very difficult to get so many people vaccinated in one year whatmore in a country that spread wide and far with many rural communities, but to start that must and so far Thailand fared very well in keeping the virus at bay...

Don’t forget that all these communities have local government medical clinics that currently facilitate vaccinations flu etc.

1 hour ago, ourmanflint said:

Irrelevant. If Thailand has been granted technology transfer for the whole region instead of Indonesia then that is a problem if Thailand thinks it can vaccinate it's own people first

 

So basically Indonesia and others will be paying for the construction of the facility in Thailand. Anyone who thinks Thailand is right to vaccinate its own people first whilst other countries citizens are dying in their thousands has a very warped moral compass

If you care to check what is happening elsewhere you would find that there have been discussions between China and Indonesia for the latter to manufacture vaccinations for the region and also that Indonesia has secured vaccines from the UK.

Perhaps you would like to conduct a poll amongst Thai people regarding your proposal, I wait the response.

7 hours ago, ourmanflint said:

Thailand vaccinating their own population first before shipping to countries like Indonesia who have a major covid problem is beyond criminal. They should hang their heads in shame

Perhaps you should ask what Indonesia and other countries, whoever they are, are doing to obtain the vaccine for their own citizens before you start criticizing Thailand.