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3 minutes ago, pasak said:

I was basing insurance costs on AXA's prices who seem to be the yardstick. I did try UK companies but found them to be more expensive. I think salerno mentioned All Clear Travel Insurance @ GBP145/year but I found them much more than that when I enquired. 

 

Meanwhile do you suppose immigration would give a 30 day visa exempt even with a return air ticket for 3 months from date of entry? I can't remember if they look at the air ticket when you enter the country. 

The airline looks for your return ticket when you board your first international flight. They don't want to fly you in and have you rejected on entry as they would have to fly you back out even if you couldn't pay.

2 minutes ago, stickymango said:

I wanted to report back:  I submitted my third Sandbox request (first two were rejected) and received approval 18 hours later. Note that my third application was exactly the same as my first two.  Unfortunately, since my flight is in 4 days, I also submitted a Test and Go application and "forgot" to include my trip to Mexico last week.  I received approval for my Sandbox application 2 minutes after I submitted my Test and Go application.  Hopefully, they will not cancel my approved Sandbox due to this second inconsistent application.  Good luck to everyone!!

Does your vaccine certificate have a qr code on it?

Two questions:

1) What's the current turn-around time for people who don't have qr codes on their vaccination certificates getting the pass? Anyone recently in that category who can report how many days they had to wait?

2) What's the current backlog of unprocessed applications? They reported this in the first few days. Anyone seen a recent such report? I'm worried that they can only process 1-2k applications per day via manual review. If they have a backlog now of, say, 90k applications, that will take a lot of time to process. 

38 minutes ago, Russell17au said:

You seem to forget that Thailand set up all those field hospitals and hospitels for those that gave a positive result so that they could be monitored and transferred to a hospital and treated if they showed any symptoms and if they gave 2 consecutive negative results they were released and as most of these field hospitals are now closed because of the low infection numbers anyone who gives a positive result is sent to a hospital to be monitored.

Not in my neighborhood in Bangkok. Many locals have tested positive (and not all completely asymptomatic) and all were sent home to self-isolate. All of them. None were sent to the hospital.

Zero percent of my Thailand Pass has been approved. That's an issue.

They can show the Thailand Pass as an example of how competent they are in the digital world. 

Just now, arithai12 said:

the small script at the end of the page says

"If you forgot your secret, please contact [email protected]"

Has anybody tried getting the "secret" ?

 

This is a <deleted>-ing circus.

You can go here:

https://tp.consular.go.th/en/check-status

But, it asks for an access code and nobody has an access code.

23 minutes ago, NHMA said:

Looks like it just happened today: https://medium.com/thailand-pass/how-can-i-check-my-registration-status-7f6c4612336

 

So unless you just registered or will from now on, you will not get an access code. I tried checking the status of my application (QR code approved) just for funsies, you can't do it without access code. 

Amazing Thailand.

50 minutes ago, NHMA said:

Interesting. Apparently, now one can check the status of their TP application: https://tp.consular.go.th/en/check-status

 

Guess it was too hard to add this when the system went operational on 11/01. Worth re-registering? 

It asks for you to enter your access code, passport number, and email address to check your status. I did not receive an access code with the confirmation (see below). How do you get that code?

1 hour ago, Russell17au said:

That is right they tell the Thai's to go home and self quarantine. You seem to forget that this man and his family are not Thai's and they are not residents of Thailand so yes just tell them to go home and self quarantine when they don't have a home in Thailand.

I have an apartment in Bangkok where I could go home and self-quarantine. Wonder what would happen with me if I am in this situation?

15 minutes ago, ThailandRyan said:

 Everyone who test positive is put in isolation here in one way or another.

Not true in our part of Bangkok. Some Thai people in the neighborhood have tested positive during the pandemic and some were not fully asymptomatic. All were given some meds and simply asked to self-quarantine. Some of their contacts were asked to test and those who were positive were asked to self-quarantine. None were sent to formal quarantine. 

Just now, CRUNCHER said:

What about Thailand?

If you are asking if they put qr codes on Thai vaccine certificates...I think they do not.

4 minutes ago, alyx said:

Does that mean that the Thailand Pass documents are automatically checked or just the Certificate and then a human team manually checks the rest? because I do not see any progress on my application a week after I applied

Or maybe I should apply once more

Some people are getting amazingly quick approvals while others are taking many days. I assume the quick ones are the result of no manual review at all. 

Now this information in the Thailand Pass FAQ. Explains why many of us are not getting a quick approval. 

The trick most people use in your situation to save money is to buy a one-way ticket into Thailand. Also, buy some cheap ticket out on the date your initial visa period would end (say, a ticket from Bangkok to someplace close like Laos or Cambodia). Then, extend your visa and buy your return ticket back to your place of origin. That seems to be a cheaper plan than changing an original round-trip ticket. 

Just now, KhaoYai said:

I guess that's possible but mine wasn't in minutes as some are reporting.  Also, note I didn't separate my QR code off and put it in the additional box.  Have you applied yet?

I applied on November 4 with a U.S. certificate lacking a qr code. Got the confirmation email that it was accepted. No notification of approval yet. 

25 minutes ago, KhaoYai said:

Sent my application in around midnight last night - received the pass this morning around 6.30am.  Its possible that they are pushing them through now due to the backlog.  I separated my two NHS vaccine certificates (easy with a basic program like Paint) but as the NHS ones have a QR code on them, I didn't crop that and insert it into the additional QR code box.

 

There's not a cat in hell's chance that my insurance documents will have been undertstood - I will have the full policy with me on entry though.

 

I should note that it was recommended (by Salerno I think?) to use a merge program to join my insurance documents up - as the required information is spread over several pages. I did that but it resulted in a filesize of around 8.5 mb - the maximum allowed is 5mb.  If you need to do the same andthat happens to you, again a basic program like Paint will sort it out.

 

Open Paint

Click File then Open

Select the merged document

Click Resize

In the Resize box make sure the Percentage tab is checked and change it to say 50 (that reduce mine to around 4.5mb)

Click OK then back to File and Save - you're done.

 

Most PC's have Paint and its not difficult - believe me, I'm not computer savvy at all.

 

So, every person who has reported a quick approval is someone who has a vaccine certificate with a qr code. Those of us without that will have to wait for manual review. 

7 minutes ago, KhaoYai said:

 

 

There will, I have no doubt, be thousands of Thai people walking around with the virus who are Asymptomatic - they are not required to take tests and although they'd also have to quarantine if they were and the results were positive, they would not be leaving the country afterwards.

 

Several Thai people in our neighborhood in Bangkok have tested positive during the pandemic and were just told by the clinic to go home and self-quarantine (which they didn't, of course). None of them were told to go into formal quarantine or hospital as they were relatively asymptomatic. I assume it's about money more than public health. 

2 minutes ago, Danderman123 said:

What date do you arrive in Thailand? 

11/28

55 minutes ago, Blumpie said:

Keeping on my jesus theme (nobody else is noticing or caring, and rightfully so), I'd rather be nailed to a cross by my genitals than go through all that right now.  

I share your pain - it's beyond ridiculous and what in the living devil are you going to do there anyways?  Thailand we all knew is dead and gone.  

I'm a motivated traveler. I had retired to Thailand pre-pandemic, had to come back to the U.S. during the pandemic for some urgent family matters, and want to get back to Thailand to be with wife (who is waiting a very, very long time for her U.S. visa due to the Trump administration completing <deleted>-ing up the immigration process). So, I'm not a typical tourist (like many others trying to travel to Thailand right now). If I were just looking for a nice holidy, no way would I put up with all of these frustrations. I expect that is true for many and their insane system will deter many would-be tourists. 

10 hours ago, richard_smith237 said:

Just looked at it… 

They were more interested in the PCR test and also asked for my insurance. 
 

Transfer staff did the same (two leg flight) 
 

Interesting that they asked for insurance. My travel insurance policy starts on 11/28 as that's when I arrive in BKK. My first flight is out of Chicago on 11/26 local date. I wonder if the airline will quibble about that?