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1 hour ago, audaciousnomad said:

Knowing how severe the libel/defamation laws are here, it would be absolutely insane for the Herald to print this without any shred of truth. Falsely suggesting that the highest ranking govt official in the Kingdom has approved a legal order is surely bordering on criminal under the laws here.

The server is not based in Thailand for that reason.  It is likely that they have no documented connection to Thailand, so unless authorities could trace down someone here in Thailand giving them this information, Thai laws will not apply to them.   Otherwise, the worst thai authorities could do would be to block access to the website from Thailand.

3 hours ago, ubonjoe said:

What they might do is have the flights from a airport near here that is open for most people and it would be up to them to make arrangements for flights to those airports.

Where might that be?  Virtually every country in Asia is closed.  The closest plausible countries for such a scheme would be in Europe.

On 9/24/2020 at 8:11 AM, Don Mega said:

I know what permission to stay extensions are, Iam on a 2 year one.

My question is about visa's. I thought they are valid for 12 months but require a border bounce every 90 days.

I don't think you understand what permission of stay means.  As far as I know, there is no such thing as a 2 year permission of stay.  If there is, it is extremely uncommon.  The max permission of stay is usually 12 months

1 hour ago, EricTh said:

Nowadays, they have fingerprinting so changing new passport won't help.

They have eliminated fingerprinting because they don't want everyone touching the same thing and spreading covid.

19 minutes ago, Letseng said:

If you add it all up you may not be far off a basic Elite Visa. 

You must be joking.  The only fees we know about for this visa are the 10,000 admin fee plus standard visa and extension fees of 1900x3.  The cheapest Elite is 500,000.  

You also need flights, insurance, and quarantine with elite, so this would be in addition and about the same for both.

12 minutes ago, farang51 said:

 @ernests asked for expenses until leaving quarantine. Anyway, unless you want to sleep in a sleeping bag, you will have to pay to stay somewhere; be it a hotel, an apartment, with a girlfriend etc.

Yah, but we aren't talking about a week long vacation.  They are requiring prepayment of accommodation, or at least a rental agreement for your entire stay of up to 9 months.  Who would book and pay for a place for so long before you have even seen it?  what if you don't like the place?  I think this requirement is worse than the 2 week quarantine requirement.

16 minutes ago, SunsetT said:

Under Section 3 there also seems to be a requirement to book a further 15 days accommodation AFTER quarantine:     "accommodation options and requirements after the 15 days quarantine (minimum stay of 15 days) [Total minimum stay of 30 days including the 15 day quarantine]"

You are required to pre-book all accommodation for your entire stay in Thailand.

16 minutes ago, BritManToo said:

50K for a volunteer VISA through an agent.

Too late for this now.

I think non-o visa holders can get a 30 day extension if you can get a letter from your embassy requesting an extension.  You may be too late for this also depending on your nationality.   What country are you from？

There is no 15 month visa.  When you get a non o visa, the initial visa gets you 3 months, and then some agents can get you a 12 month extension after that for a total of 15 months.

37 minutes ago, Mormolin said:

I am wondering what will happen with your fly tickets if you are unfit to fly? Would the airline company will reschedule you flight for free?

Usually, no.  You would have to pay the normal airline fees to change your ticket and get reimbursed by your travel insurance if you have any.  But since covid, some airlines are waving all change fees and allow changes for any reason for free.

45 minutes ago, bjaz said:

1 hour ago, SEtonal said:

Tourists can stay in the Philippines for 36 months without exiting the country. Some single guys that chose to retire in the Philippines on tourist visa extensions are now having to leave the country as they reach their 36 month limit.

 

wow - 3 years without ever leaving the country on a tourist visa? And all the extensions are legit?
I thought South-American countries were generous, but 3 years on a tourist visa without leaving the country is a lot!

Keep in mind that you have to extend it every couple of months.  And the fees add up to about 15,000 baht a year.  So they aren't really being generous.

9 minutes ago, Somtamnication said:

Or just go to Cambodia, Vietnam or Myanmar. Many options.

All of those places are closed to tourists and will probably remain closed for many months to come.

45 minutes ago, ehgnyc said:

If any rich tourist really does take part in this, they are going to be very disappointed. They will not be arriving in the happy fun Thailand they're imagining. I'm on Samui. It's a ghost town.

Actually, I think this has improved samui.  At least its is more peaceful and the beaches aren't crowded.  I think most rich tourist would agree with me.  They are mostly older and looking for peace and quiet.  They will be glad all the backpackers and associated "fun" are gone.

8 hours ago, JoseThailand said:

I wonder if Thailand will be the only country that forces people out during this pandemic.

No, not the only country in the world.  A few countries already have done it.  Thailand will however be the only country in SE asia to force people out.

4 hours ago, NanLaew said:

What part of my comment "in the last few days" went over your head?

 

Once again you are using an app and looking up one-way flight history searches whereas my LH website search LAST WEEK and THIS WEEK was for a future r/t and NO Lufthansa flights showed on the latter search.

 

I just tried a o/w for tomorrow on the LH website and there are NO BKK-FRA o/w non-stops listed.

The direct flight is only scheduled for monday, thursday and saturday.  It flew all those days for the last week.

You are complaining that this flight didn't fly on days it wasn't even scheduled. 

In your search you are showing, you searched on a friday.  If you had chosen a day it is actually scheduled, you would have seen the direct flight available.  This is from their website.  I don't use any app.

37 minutes ago, NanLaew said:

And curiously enough, in the last few days the non-stop Lufthansa services BKK-FRA seem to have been offloaded onto Swiss Airlines via Zurich and Munich. This from LH's website as I type, not any smartphone app.

um, no.  More ridiculous nonsense.  Lufthansa 773 flew all of its last 5 scheduled flights.  The next flight is tomorrow.  It will fly.  Cheap tickets are still available.

1 hour ago, NanLaew said:

Those are flights dated before last week. Just had a check on EVA website and came up with the following for Sep/Dec to/from LHR.

 

 

 

The flight is still on their schedule and bookable.   It will fly this sunday.  The problem appears to be how you are doing your search.  It looks like they are only allowing one way flights to be booked from bangkok now.

29 minutes ago, treetops said:

Wrong example to choose.  They pulled these a week or so ago (it was only running on a Sunday IRC) but now not at all.  I agree in principle and minimising the risk, or doing due diligence is what's required.

This flight has not been cancelled.  It has been flying reliably

every sunday, and it is still scheduled for every sunday.  Stop making stuff up.

I think the problem is with your ticketing agent and they are just using covid as an excuse because they couldn't get the ticket at the price they quoted.  The flight on sunday has not been cancelled, and it will certainly fly.  

15 minutes ago, PatrickC said:

You are not allowed to board a repatriation flight to Thailand if you test covid positive, so this law was already basically in place.

They approved this new regulation today, so they need it for some reason.

It may be so they can continue the current testing and quarantine on arrival process once the emergency decree is lifted.

5 minutes ago, ChouDoufu said:

shirley they'll be allowed to use the expensive thai covid insurance with 3 million baht cover they were required to purchase as part of the visa application process!

maybe they can use that for their medical evacuation flight back home.

7 minutes ago, RedCardinal said:

https://www.thaigov.go.th/news/contents/details/35295

 

Nothing discussed/mentioned regarding amnesty.

8 minutes ago, jackdd said:

12 minutes ago, jackdd said:

Today's cabinet meeting is online: https://www.thaigov.go.th/news/contents/details/35295

I don't see anything about an amnesty extension.

I agree, nothing about amnesty or anything visa related.

For me, 10 minutes, but that was a couple of weeks ago.  Maybe they have lots of requests now and thats why they are slow.