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1 hour ago, Danderman123 said:

I have many questions about this new system, but I wait until the rules are published.

Just when you thought the crazy might not get crazier...

Not encouraging that zero people on here are reporting having gotten interviews sometime in the past 13 months. 

1 hour ago, Bohemianfish said:

You may have luck on finding info on visajourney.com. We used it in regards to wife's immigration to the USA.

 

USCIS may be slow all over due to COVID. Naturalizations have slowed.

Thanks. I have looked at that site you provided though it doesn't seem that there are a lot of people with our type of visa reporting on there in the past few months. 

I am a U.S. citizen and wife is Thai. We applied for a spouse visa to the U.S. for her in August, 2020. NVC sent the case to the Bangkok embassy in July of 2021. We submitted all the required documents in August, 2021. It's now January, 2022 and no interview scheduled yet. So, five months after submitting final documents to the embassy and radio silence. Anyone out there who is getting a spouse visa to the U.S. and has gotten an interview recently? If so, how long was the last leg of your process?

Amazing Thailand!

12 hours ago, Adumbration said:

The old Thai guy who live two doors down from me tested positive about 2 weeks ago.  They just roped of the front of his house with some of that red taffeta string these use here to tie up parcels.

They are absolutely allowed to quarantine at home, even if having symptoms. Per wife, this has happened over a dozen times with people testing positive in our neighborhood in Bangkok. Only one person living near us went to a hospital after testing positive and that was because he was so sick he needed more intensive care. 

4 hours ago, digbeth said:

The people who paid for their Moderna are still not getting theirs, 

Right. Wife pre-paid for Moderna. Still hasn't gotten it. She called the hospital through which we paid for it a few days ago and was given the typical Thai runaround of "go check the website" and the site was unclear and gave no helpful information.

On 11/19/2021 at 12:58 AM, ChipButty said:

That was always the rule it was just never enforced, I am told in CM it is enforced 

I was on Koh Samui in March of 2020 and it was enforced there, then. Went to the 7-11 at 3:00 p.m. to grab a beer to take back to the hotel and was told to come back later. 

12 hours ago, dlclark97 said:

What has happened to Moderna?  No mention of it.  Many have pre-paid.  In my case my cardiologist at a private hospital and because of existing conditions has recommended I wait for Moderna.  Supposedly I am on a priority waiting list.  No shots to date.

Right. Pre-paid for wife. Still waiting. Was promised in October.

42 minutes ago, sirineou said:

That's a good price, I dont remember how much I paid six months ago but it was more than that. It helps if you told us where you are  .

We used Passport Health Near Orlando FL . They were quick and efficient. We never even got out of our car, They had a drive through and we got our certificate by Email 4 hours later. 

https://www.passporthealthusa.com/orlando/

There are a lot of testing facilities near major international airports specializing at that , do a search for the area you are flying out of. 

And have a good trip

 

Thanks. I am in southern Indiana. The nearest such testing center is a drive-through type and it's in Indianapolis about 90 minutes from where I live.

Update 2: Finally found a clinic an hour and a half away from me that will do a proper test with a 24-hour turnaround for $105US.

I am traveling from the U.S. to Thailand at the end of the month. I foolishly scheduled my flight for the morning after Thanksgiving. Turns out all the test centers say 1-2 days for results though with the holiday now are all saying 2-3 days. That means that none of them will promise to get the test results to me within 72 hours. There are expedited tests you can get to get the results within 24 hours, but they either don't say RT-PCR or are done with a more superficial swab and both of those issues will get my test invalidated for the purpose I need. My question: as I can just move the test sample up one day to try to get the result within the 72-hour time before my first flight, does anyone see an issue with the sample being taken more than 72 hours prior to my flight? With the holiday, very difficult to impossible to get both the sample and the result within 72 hours of my first flight. 

Update: Checked with my airline (All Nippon) and sample collection must be within 72 hours. So, I'm <deleted>-ed. I may have to cancel my trip.

So, multiply the number of taxis you have ever seen pulled over by Thai police for a traffic violation times 10 points and you get the number of total points that will likely be deducted from drivers in the next few months. 

2 hours ago, ukrules said:

You really think every country in the world ruined their economy so a couple of companies can make a few tens of billions? ????

 

The economic damage is well into the trillions world wide. Forbes put it at $24 Trillion back in February this year so it's far more than that.

 

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/billionaire-wealth-covid-pandemic-12-trillion-jeff-bezos-wealth-tax/

Wife pre-paid for Moderna via private hospital in September with promise that it would arrive in October. She called today (November 17) and got a run-a-round. A scam that cost us 3k baht.

So, this article implies that the police will actually notice and respond to traffic violations in order for these points to be assigned. Interesting. Why would they think that?

8 hours ago, NanLaew said:

 

 

I read of a pax who was delayed at the transit airport as the 72-hours on his PCR test had expired during his 5-hour transit layover and before his final, 7-hour flight sector to BKK. He had to pay for another rapid-result PCR test at that transit airport.

What transit airport was that?

On 11/15/2021 at 4:53 PM, richard_smith237 said:

 

 

Is this actually a thing? Info from a viable source or just rumour ?

Has this actually happened..... at all ????

 

Those who have tested positive on after getting here must have been sat near some people yet there are no stories of people being forced into Quarantine / isolation after sitting next to someone who has tested positive while they themselves test negative. 

 

 

 

 

 

It is a thing. People have reported it. 

9 hours ago, Toolong said:

I don't wish to shift too much from the main issue here, which is essentially the possible imposition of restrictive & puntive social sanctions against those unvaccinated, but could someone just explain to me why I might be incorrect in thinking that if vaccinated people can still become infected with C19.....and if vaccinated people can still infect others with C19, why should it be assumed that UNvaccinated people are a particular risk to others? (A risk to themselves, yes.) It's a genuine query and I am happy to be shown up as having faulty logic or as being uninformed if that is the case. 

 

(I am fully vaccinated btw, but only cos I could see exactly this kind of s**t coming down the road.....and lo, here it comes.)

I agree with G Rex. Also, this...

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2021/08/study-ties-covid-vaccines-lower-transmission-rates

11 hours ago, Thailand said:

They must be coming to Thailand, the golf courses are putting up the prices to high season as if nothing has happened.

 

Nobody has told them there is no high season.

A lot of hotels, too.

5 hours ago, fusion58 said:

That’s funny - I came through Narita on Friday also, and it was a chaotic, disorganized, dysfunctional mess.

 

As soon as the passengers on my flight deplaned, an agent intercepted all of those passengers who were bound for Bangkok at the arrival gate and proceeded to march us all (at breakneck speed) to what seemed like the opposite end of the airport (my feet were killing me by the time we finally stopped walking!) From there, passengers were sorted into queues according to fare class and instructed to wait our respective turns for document verification (mind you, the documents they wanted to verify were the same documents which were required for approval of COE or TP - talk about redundant!) Anyway, after waiting for about 30 minutes, the line hadn’t budged - the Japanese agents were clearly struggling to make sense of it all. Eventually, they tried extracting smaller groups of passengers from the queues and moving said groups to different locations. Many of the passengers were losing their cool at this point. By the time my turn rolled around, I was seriously wondering whether the flight to Bangkok would end up being delayed. Talk about a total waste of time and energy…

I am flying through Narita on the way back to Bangkok on 11/27. Good to have a heads up about the mess.

1 hour ago, FalangTingTong said:

Today I tried again and it lets me edit the dates... hahahaha NOT!

 

I can change the arrival date but I can't change the month of my birth date, and the month is exactly the thing they entered wrong.  An the page says very clearly you can only edit the data once.  Lovely.  (Same as for you, it only shows the two dates, arrival and birthdate, in my case arrival was off by one day and birth by one month.)

 

This is one of those Amazing moments, really.  You upload your documents, they botch the data entry, they realize they botched it, they ask YOU to correct it, and their system won't let you make the necessary correction.... assuming, like me, you were carefully watching the replies on this topic and didn't just stop at "they told me to ignore the email" which would have been the rational thing, considering the system had already told you everything was "rectified."

 

I think at this point the advice is to re-try the correction link and see if it lets you correct...?

 

Amazing Thailand!