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Absolutely! Only very motivated people as opposed to typical tourists, such as people trying to return here that have already lived here, have much of a RATIONAL reason to go through all that. Thailand's program is exceptionally onerous for a program that claims to be open. Of course some other countries are totally closed. For people wanting classic leisure travel there are much better options that are much more open in reality.

Get naked, drink ice water, and turn on a big fan to high. Hair of the dog.

Too logical.

https://healthrisk.bangkokpattayahospital.com/rvs_covid/rvb_en_add.php

It's an insidious situation whether its part of an intentional grand policy or not. Again, I strongly recommend against retirement in Thailand unless you're exceptionally wealthy in which case you're probably not interested anyway. For others I submit Thailand's lack of a residency security path for retired expats is likely to kick you in the balls sooner or later.

Baiting post ignored.

Enough already. If you get a new passport number there will be some kind of process to record that the next time you present your passport at the bank for some kind of bank business. You can wait until that time if you like. To add, as we're in a pandemic, it makes sense to NOT make a special visit to update your passport number until you need to go to the bank for other business requiring ID.

I never filled a form. But the change needed to be officialized by all three of my Thai banks.

You use a Thai ID at the bank or at least you said you do. Thus your advise to people that use passport numbers lacks credibility.

That was a process. I never said it was difficult.

Do as you like but I guess it depends if you're here to.help or here to play silly games and expect people to read your mind that you use a Thai id number for your ids. Perhaps another instance of the yellow book having expats superiority dance.

Yes you're right..You can indeed wait until you need to show your passport to the bank. That could be years if you have no business there for years. There is no penalty for waiting. On the other hand there's nothing wrong with getting it over with either.

That's weird. I have accounts at three Thai banks. All of them required a paperwork process because of the new number. Of course I could have waited until I had any business at the bank requiring id. I suspect that's what they meant. There is no rush to do it before you actually need to show them the new passport.

You really should have clarified that before. Obviously if you're not using your passport number it doesn't matter. It's fair to.assume the OP is using his passport number in which case it most certainly does matter when the number changes.

You do if its a new number!

I assume your country gives new passport numbers with new passports. I would suggest the cleanest timing would be to get the new passport, get your visa info transferred to it at immigration, then go to your bank. I'm not sure if Bangkok Bank will do that at any branch or require you to go to your home branch where you opened the account. I did this with them at my home branch. Its relatively painless.

I am one of those O visa based retirement extenders that feels trapped. Dazed and confused too. In real fear that if I travel out of Thailand that I won't be able to get back. This thread has done pish all to relieve that. Its very clear this Thailand Pass scheme us designed for tourists with no thought whatsover for settled invested in Thailand expats. Yet another dark consequence of the lack of residency security offered to expats. Future potential expats: You have been warned! At this point I'm thinking wait another year and maybe just maybe things will be much smoother and clearer by then. But that might be overly optimistic.

Are youse sure?

I think a big factor in many people feeling hostile towards shifting public health policies is because things have indeed changed substantially over time. New findings, new conditions, new mutations, those changes are unfortunately necessary. I reckon some people bought the overly optimistic Koolaid that much lower levels of vaccination would bring some kind of magical "herd immunity" and the end to all this misery. Nope. I think mature people can understand that attitudes do need to be adjusted as conditions and knowledge advances. Obviously public messaging hasn't been near perfect in any country, but I don't think the masses ever really wanted to hear more realistic pessimistic possible scenarios before they had to.

The truth is that everyone of good will should be hoping that boosters are going to be available to all in Thailand during their time window, because that on top of massive vax rates (like 95 percent) is the only thing that is going to make the pandemic "over" here.

It implies they are available to everyone that wants/needs them. NOT TRUE!

There is none but it's credible that it will happen again later when you look at other countries that are feeling the need to do that with populations much more vaccinated than in Thailand. If/when 95 percent of the people here including children are double vaxxed and boosted as needed, then and only then can we talk about this being in the endemic stage here. As of now, not even close.

Under very limited guidelines. I am in a group that in the U.S. would be classed as you MUST get a booster, and as yet, I have no path whatsoever to get a booster in Thailand. The good news is that I have time until my time window for a booster comes up so maybe by then it will be. But again no assurance whatsoever that a booster will be available to me then. I am speaking personally because I'm certain that my situation applies to the majority of people living in Thailand now.

Yes. A small percentage of people that have been double jabbed do die from Covid-19. That is not news. All informed people knew that already. But to highlight one case of that is very misleading. Are we going to get a new topic for all the people in the world that got double jabbed, were then exposed to the virus, and did not die? Come on people!

I think incentives can be helpful along with negative consequences for being stubborn. But it's kind of unfair to give a reward to the stragglers and not to those that stepped up to do the right thing because it was the right thing.