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Perhaps because of this? It doesn't read too good.

http://www.khaosodenglish.com/politics/2020/01/06/thai-govt-worried-for-us-iran-conflict-fallout/

3 hours ago, niebla said:

Has anyone been successful getting a single entry O visa, not O-A in Hong Kong?

Hong Kong stopped issuing any visa to anyone who don't hold a full Hong Kong or Macau ID card approximately 3 months ago. The piece of paper you once got at the airport is no longer accepted. I suggest contacting them before you travel on the email below

[email protected]
 

5 hours ago, BritTim said:

The void stamp will be noted if you try to apply for tourist visas elsewhere. You might be lucky, but your chances would not be good. In the short term, your best bet is to travel overland to Thailand, entering visa exempt at a land border. Avoid a route where you enter Thailand at Poipet/Aranyaprathet. You should then immediately apply for a replacement passport.

 

Whether the void stamp is totally unexpected depends on your history of tourist entries to Thailand generally, total tourist visas in your passport, and tourist visas previously applied for in Ho Chi Minh City. A void stamp is certainly not unprecedented when you have had a number of previous tourist visas (visible in your passport) especially if they were issued in HCMC. It is now much harder to get serial tourist visas in the region than was the case in the past.

It is pointless to change passports now. Plenty of reports out there of people being asked to produce their old passport when going to nearby Embassy's and consulates with a fresh passport. Vietnam, and Laos in particular, are well on to it.

8 hours ago, ubonjoe said:

But how long of an overstay. I don't think they would deny an application for 1 or 2 days.

Thaivisa service added an update on the 10th December regarding their weekly visa run to Kota Bharu.

Update 10th December: Non ED visa application will be viewed with critical eyes. Non O and Non B are welcome. Transfer stamp from old passport to new passport not possible, need to be done before trip and in such case you have to take both passport to the Consulate, and NO OVERSTAY, we can not accept. We try to help with visa application but we can not guarantee that the desired visa will be issued, the final say has the Consulate.

Be aware that agents are reporting that Kota Bharu have now joined Penang in not issuing visas to those with a previous overstay stamp in their passport.

23 minutes ago, ubonjoe said:

It has never been shown on the embassy in Canberra or the official consulate in Sydney websites.

I was possible at the honorary consulates until a little over 2 years ago when the embassy told them not to issue them.

I looked due too Laza 45 seeming to infer he was going to enquire in Adelaide. In that case, he is out of luck too. 

3 hours ago, jacko45k said:

That link does not specify insurance for Non-Imm-O category, only O-A and O-X.

I can no longer see on the Sydney, Adelaide and Canberra websites any listing for the Non O visa for retirement purposes. Only the O-A visa is now available for retirement purposes.
On the other end of the scale, the London E visa application site, has taken out the Non O for retirement and now showing 'Unless over 50 and in receipt of a state pension'. They are allowing those not in receipt of a state pension (Not everybody over 65 gets the state pension if you never made contributions) to show a 3-month bank statement of at least £10,000

14 minutes ago, emptypockets said:

 

Interested to know what your opinion is on this. Is it referring to expat insurance (which I think would be a drop in the ocean in the big picture) or something else?

The article never made reference to anything in particular, other than to those insurance products.
IMO, Health Insurance will eventually be required to ALL extensions of stay or at least to those on extensions which are in the 50yr and above age bracket. 50 years old seems to be the trigger that the MoPH refer too.
It would make no sense to apply a health Insurance to an O-A visa and extensions of, in order for people to switch to a Non O, for instance and extend that with no insurance requirement. It would simply be the same people in the same country and same situation. IMO, they did it to the O-A first in order, not to have mass panic and confusion. I see at some stage, the Non O being phased out and not issued for retirement, and the only option being the O-A visa

6 hours ago, BritTim said:

Actually, Savannakhet has become one of the worst places to apply for tourist visas, matched probably only by Phnom Penh among options in countries adjoining Thailand.

 

No one should assume that experiences even one year ago are relevant to what you can expect now.

You may want to add Hanoi to the list of places to avoid if you have any visa history. Hong Kong is now a no go for any visas for anybody unless you hold a Hong Kong residents card.
Manila is questionable. No recent reports but they have recently added the need to have a Filipino residents card to there list of requirements when applying for visas.

2 hours ago, tabarin said:

Finance proof by bank statement and additional questions can be expected. As anywhere else, only safe place left is Savannakhet.

 

Exact requirements can't be clarified as it changes by the day. At least 20,000 baht by bank statement is common today.

Savannakhet no longer issue tourist visas to anybody that has spent 90 days or more in Thailand during the previous 6 months. Reports are suggesting a new passport no longer helps. It is reported in other places over the last week, that both Savannakhet and Vientiane are requesting to see your old passport if you attempt to apply there with a new one before accepting an application. 
They are on to the changing of the passport game.

Taiwan are simply the next country moving over to the E visa application platform. All Thai Embassy's worldwide have to move over to it. Non residents cannot apply for a Thai visa in a country using E visa.

17 minutes ago, LivinLOS said:

There is no grandfathering listed in any of the orders except the maintenance of the 200k from (IIRC ?) 98.. 

 

Assuming there is grandfathering when it is not explicitly stated, when in other cases is was.. Seems hopeful at best. 

This lot are going to have a melt down when Operation Foreigner phase 2 go's in, sometime during the second quarter of 2020. They will either need to comply or leave.

6 minutes ago, KhaoYai said:

I am completely aware of that.

And I have explained to you and others why London will issue a Tourist visa for visiting family for a less than 60 day visit. You select a stay of less than 60 days, you get issued a tourist visa. You don't get a choice

When you apply for a visa using E visa, you cannot select any type of visa. It is impossible. You select a reason to visit. If you select visiting your wife (Visiting or staying with family resided in Thailand) for less than 60 days,  the system selects a tourist visa. You can then select either single or multiple entry. The rest of the application is then simply for applying for one of those tourist visas.
If you select visiting your wife for more than 60 days, the system selects a 90 day single entry Non O visa. The rest of application then pertains to that particular type of visa. There are no multiple entry Non Immigrant visas issued in the UK.

18 minutes ago, brianj1964 said:

And the immigration link this to the passport? Is this database at the airport ?

when I arrived he never scanned my passport and said you don't have insurance, he looked at the visa and asked me

It's an online system that can be accessed anywhere by the Dept of consular affairs and immigration. It's simply a database that tells them if you have the required insurance or not. I would imagine it is there in order to stop the use of fake documents etc

21 minutes ago, Sheryl said:

 

Re=read his post. The IO in front of him who stamped his passport was not the IO who told him he would be given 30 days.

 

Different IO stamped him in.

I have no need to re-read anything to see what has happened. How do you 'Know' what was actually entered in to the Immigration database after being held up for 2 hours and finally agreeing to be stamped in for 30 days but received a stamp for 12 months?  I certainly don't need advice from you or the other so called 'Experts' that have been peddling their advice here over the last couple of weeks. Your misinformation has been astounding.