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Why does it matter to you that your Insurance Company faulty thinks that you only did subscribe to their insurance policy for Immigration purposes?

Yes, if they have faulty perception, they will send you e-mails when your policy is about to be renewed that subscribing to their policy is necessary to meet Immigration requirements (while there is no requirement for having such policy for extending a Non Imm O Visa). And they will send you the Certificate which Immigration would ask for in case it was required (only for Non Imm O-A Visa). 

Just ignore their messages mentioning Immigration, and simply renew their insurance policy which you have taken for other reasons than what they presume.

Unless you like to visit Vietnam and make it a holiday trip, why are you planning to fly to Ho Chi Minh city and apply there for a 60-day Tourist Visa?

If you only do it for prolonging your stay in Thailand, it would be far more easy to do a simple same day border-run at a land-border closest to you. Then re-enter Thailand VisaExempt (no Visa needed) and you will be provided with a 45-day Permission to stay, which can be extended for 30 days at an Immigration Office. 

The process of being stamped out of Thailand, buying a Visa on arrival (or having bought it already on-line) of the adjacent country, and then re-entering Thailand providing you with a 45 day Permission to stay can be done in less than 30 minutes. 

The easiest would be to do a border-run prior to your Non B extension expiring.  When you live close to the Cambodian, Laos or Malaysian border, a land-border hop would probably be your best option.  Alternatively you can also take a return flight to a near-by country.

The border-hop can be done same day, but obviously you can also combine it with a holiday/sightseeing trip in the country you are entering. 

You do not need to apply for a Tourist Visa for Thailand as you can simply return Visa Exempt (without a Visa) which will provide you with a 45-day permission to stay stamp in your Passport.  That gives you ample time to prepare for the 90-day Non Imm O Visa at the Thai Immigration Office of the province where you are residing, and that needs to be done when you have at least 15 days remaining before expiry of your permission to stay. 

2 hours ago, cauldlad said:

I did mine at Pattaya last year and as mentioned, you need an appointment on your first visit.

 

I go to the clinic on Soi Buakhow for med cert. 100 bt. but all the clinics provide them.

 

You will also need a residency certificate from Immigration. If my memory serves me correctly it cost 300bt.

 

They said come back in one hour so I went in a bar further down the soi for a drink and when I returned it was ready.

Officially a Residence Certificate is provided free of charge by the Immigration Office. 

And indeed I did not have to pay for it at my friendly SiSaKet Imm Office, and they handed it to me within 10 minutes.  However, they only provide it when you have an official request form issued by the office that needs it for the service you want to apply for.  Also that filled-in request form by the DLT of SiSaKet , needed to get that Res Cert was free of charge. 

The clinic health certificate was 60,- THB, and the 2 thai driver permit cards (one for car, one for motorcycle) were 320,- THB.  Everything with a smile.

Living in the sticks has its benefits...

36 minutes ago, VocalNeal said:

I believe Thais can visit Denmark visa free ???? It is reciprocal.

Posted 5 times - site not responding when clicking Submit, hence the quintuple posts.

@mod - Please remove double messages

24 minutes ago, VocalNeal said:

I believe Thais can visit Denmark visa free ???? It is reciprocal.

Thais need a Schengen Visa to visit Denmark, and need to apply at the Danish Embassy in Bangkok for such Visa. The main hurdle, besides all the paperwork needed, is that they need to provide credible evidence that they will return to Thailand at the end of their visit.  Being married with a Danish citizen simplifies things, but a Visa is still needed.

6 hours ago, Sheryl said:

See an ENT

Making a trip to Middle Earth for a runny nose? Sounds a bit overdone.

1 hour ago, couchpotato said:

And how is this relevant to Arden resigning????

Because you can take a horse to water, but you cannot make it drink...

29 minutes ago, VBF said:

Nothing wrong with your idea, but I personally disagree with it. I'm arriving in Thailand next month, staying for 57 days.  I could have done as you suggest, entered visa-exempt and applied for an extension.

 

However, I chose to get a Tourist Visa mainly because, once I figured the strange visa site out, it's all done from the comfort of my own home and now I  don't need to mess about getting copies, filling in forms, going to Immigration, effectively wasting half a day of my holiday minimum.  Plus its heaper - £30 for the visa, against 1900 Baht for an extension (approx £47.50).  As ever with these things "YMMV"

I agree that in your case when planning only to stay between 45 and 60 days, and having the opportunity to apply on-line for the 60-day Tourist Visa, that that would be your best option. 

Note that depending on where you are staying in Thailand, that doing a border-run can also be an alternative instead of applying for the 30-day extension.  And that option would actually be the one to go for in case you want to stay between 75 and 90 days in Thailand, as it would provide you with a 2nd 45-day permission to stay on re-entry after having left when your 1st 45-aay permission to stay almost expired.

6 minutes ago, DrJack54 said:

That is an optional service. 

 

I had the filled-in Re-Entry Permit form with me, and pass-photos.  But the lady at the Suvarnabumi Re-Entry desk waved them away, and said only Passport needed and filled in the form on her PC using my Passport-data and taking a photo with the fish-eye. Have I been scammed to take that 'optional service' for 200,- THB?

Note: It was end October 2022.

45 minutes ago, Liverpool Lou said:

The driving test does not have a "theoretical test", the tests are real, they exist!  The Thai driving test consists of theory and practical tests.

Corrected by the Grammar Police

2 hours ago, brianthainess said:

He has NO valid license of any kind.

Yes, and that''s why I wrote that he will have to go through the whole process of applying for a Thai Driver's Permit and taking the theoretical and practical exams.

You can get a Residence Certificate from your provincial Immigration Office for free. However some Immigration Offices (like the one in SiSaKet province) only provide it when you have a 'request form' from the DTP that provides Thai driver permits.  If that is the case also in the province where you are residing, you should first go the DTP where you plan to apply for the Thai drivers permit, and ask them to provide you with such a Residence Certificate request form (it's free of charge).  And with that request form you can get the Residence Certificate from your provincial Immigration Office (free of charge).  Then it's back to the DTP to do the actual application for your Thai drivers permit.   

Last month I went through the process, and I had my 2 Thai drivers permits (one for a car, and one for a motorcycle) provided in less than 1 hour, and it cost me 320,- THB in total. 

All I had to show was:

- My Passport with valid permission to stay (and two pass-photos)

- The Residence Certificate

- A 'health' certificate less than 1 month old (which you can get at most local clinics for 60,- THB)

- My non-expired International Drivers Permit

However, you will not be able to do that, as you do not have a valid International Drivers Permit or - in case your drivers permit is not in english - an Embassy stamped translation of your country's valid drivers permit.  So you will have to go through the whole process of proving - both theoretically and practically - that you are able to drive a car/motorcycle.

This extension should normally have an impact on the number of applications for a 60-day Tourist Visa at Thai Embassies abroad.  Because who would go through the trouble of applying for such a Visa, when you can enter Thailand WITHOUT any Visa and receive a 45 day Permit to Stay on entry?  And those that do want to stay longer can apply for a 30-day extension at any Thai Immigration office for 1.900,- THB. 

So it's only when you plan to stay between 75 and 90 days in Thailand, that a 60-day Tourist Visa would now make any sense to apply for.

2 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

If it was in a Thai visa article then that would have come from a media source. So either of those will do: Your claim being:

 

I suspect you'll not be back because I've found nothing to substantiate that claim anywhere online. 

Don't worry, I'll be back once I found it. The search engine from AseanNow is not great to use an understatement, but will look in my own archive.  I started referring to him as dr Yong(ele) after he advocated to innoculate all Thai children, so I am pretty sure I will find it back. 

27 minutes ago, Bkk Brian said:

Can you provide a link to that claim?

Yes and I will post it I can if I find the ThaiVisa article again where Yong(ele) advocated jabbing ALL Thai children 3 months and older. 

On 1/13/2023 at 11:50 AM, proton said:

Top virologist who is just an MD and professor of paediatrics at Chula, I will not be taking anything he says too seriously.

Dr Yongele advocated at the start of the roll-out of the jabs, to innoculate Thai children 3 months and older. I will never forgive him for that!  

23 minutes ago, connda said:

By the way, the term "anti-masker" is a pejorative that is meant to demean and discredit another persons views and opinions right out of the gate, and immediately set a confrontational tone. 

A less confrontation question would have been, "A question for those who don't believe that masks are effective", or "A question for those who choose not to wear masks." 

If you want to wear a mask - up to you. 

... and if you want ME to wear mask - up yours.

On 1/13/2023 at 11:21 AM, Moonlover said:

Thanks Dr. Yong. It's high time someone spoke up with a bit of common sense on this issue.

When you look at the messages of dr Yongele over the last 2-3 years, 'common sense' is the last thing I would credit him for...

Instead of an ED Visa, did you consider looking for a Teaching Visa.  When you are fluent in english and preferably also have teaching credentials, you might find a school in Thailand looking for an English-language teacher.  Just do a search on English Language Teaching Assignments in Thailand, to find agencies that have teaching opportunities.  On top of the 12-month Visa you will also get relatively well-paid for your time .