Northoltboy

Same meat different gravy

I'm a cyclist and live in Korat,what amazes me is when I go on the bicycle events with everybody from my village and surrounding villages they all wear bicycle helmets.The next day you see the same people riding around on scooters,mopeds and motorbikes and not a crash helmet in sight.

4 hours ago, Peter Denis said:

Unfortunately for you the Korat IO is correct.

IO does ONLY accept IO-approved health-insurance policies from TGIA associated thai insurers ( https://longstay.tgia.org/home/companiesoa ).

Content-wise most of these thai IO-approved policies are worthless, so - if you go that road - you might as well opt for the cheapest one, which is the LMG Insurance Plan 1 with a 200K deductible (annual premium of 6.000 THB to 11.400 THB in the age bracket of 51 till 75), with the additional advantage that no medical exam is required when subscribing to that LMG-policy.

Alternatively - once the borders are open again - you could also do a border-run and return VisaExempt, and then apply at your local IO for the 90-day Non Imm O-A retirement Visa and in the last 30 days of that 90-day Visa apply for a 1-year extension.  The requirements/conditions when applying for the 1-year extension of that Non Imm O - retirement Visa are identical as for the Non Imm O-A retirement extension, but do NOT require the thai IO-approved health-insurance scam.

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Thank you for your advise

I went to Korat Immigration last week to see if l could use my existing AIA health Insurance(inpatient and outpatient coverage requirements covered) for my extension of stay(retirement)due for renewal in October.The officer said AIA was not on the Immigration approved list of companies.He gave me a list of the companies l could use and said I'd have to change to one of them.

On 5/30/2020 at 11:59 AM, KhunBENQ said:

Would love to believe it as it is just plain arbitrary to introduce aggravation retroactively.

I hope they have changed their "interpretation".

Fortunately I have time until early October to let 

23 hours ago, Pilotman said:

Have you been to a Go Go lately? 2,000, will get you a couple of beers and a packet of nuts

 Yeah,not enough to empty your nuts.