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I would throw in the word "Truth" as well!!!

Yeah, that was my plan..."go along to get along" since it's pretty minor after the amount of hoop jumping i've gone thru so far????????

Hi All...I will be arriving back to Thailand in early January and will do the Test and Go...the following day, if negative test, i will be flying to Udon Thani...my wife will pick me up from the airport and then head to the family village...OK, now the question...she is telling me i will need another Covid Test at the local hospital before i can join the family...i'm saying this can't be true as i just had a negative PCR test the previous day, but she's saying it doesn't matter...Hope some folks here can tell me whether or not this is true... thanks mucho!!!

Thanks for that????

Ok, i know it seems pretty lame of me, but at this stage of life i just hate jumping thru hurtles, so i'm guilty as charged☹️ as far as "this is the rule", have you every tried to argue with an embassy bureaucrat??...that's a "road to nowhere" in my experience...so i've given up on that approach, but i'll know for the next go around...in the meantime, i am looking at the other options you have mentioned... by the way, i really appreciate your "boot in the butt" approach... cheers

Yes, that's what i'm looking at doing now...i wonder if i can arrive of 30 day visa exempt and convert a marriage visa easily??

Well, i have just received a reply to my enquiry to Thai Embassy NZ...800kbaht($NZ40k) needs to be shown on the bank statement for the past 2 months...in other words "seasoned" for 2 months... For my past O-A visas the money only needed to be in the bank on the day of the application...oh well, now i need to wait another 2 months until i can finally be with my family again????????

Hi All...i am just now completing my O-A visa application and have a question about the 800k baht equivalent in my bank account...does the money need to "seasoned" for 2 months before the application submittal or just show that amount from a bank statement within the last 2 months...help would be greatly appreciated as i want to get back to my wife and daughter asap... Cheers

Great, sound advice!!!...thanks much for helping me feel much less panicky and obsessive about this language issue...also appreciate and will incorporate the other advisors into my gameplan...again, thanks to you all

I've been away from Thailand, my wife and daughter for nearly 2 years now. We Line 2-3 times every day tho...now here's my concern/dilemma...They, my wife and daughter, have been living with the extended family at the family village for most of that time and my daughter is speaking Thai and Isaan quite fluently but nearly zero English... Right now i'm organizing my O-A visa with the plan to return in early Jan '22 and my concern is how best to get her speaking English, as i know very little Thai... My first thought is to rent an apartment or villa somewhere away from the family, with just the three of us and speak only English...any ideas on the time to get her English ability up to a level where i can communicate with my daughter?? Another big potential problem is that my wife will balk at this approach...it will be quite difficult to convince her to isolate ourselves as she's totally immersed in the extended family and will flat out refuse...having said that, if i could get some "authority" figure to support my approach, it would go a long way toward convincing her without a whole lotta drama... Having said all that, this is only my approach, so i would really welcome other ideas from my fellow ThaiVisa menbers...i'm certainly looking forward to your insight and advice... cheers James

Proof of vaccination does not exclude testing positive for Covid...just test before departure and test on arrival would be much more logical I would think...

Yes, when it was Thai International...great flights and cheap!!!

and, of that 1% affected, there is a 99.97% recovery rate...