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On 5/24/2023 at 1:09 PM, hkblademan said:

Hate to think how big the outstanding bill is…

Yep & it'll be climbing by each day & thing is even if he'd had insurance it would be null & void if under influence of alcohol.

On 6/14/2021 at 7:09 PM, Caldera said:

I think the utter chaos is a bigger issue than the delay itself. You're told to register somewhere, you do that, then you hear nothing and they close registrations (Vimut, CRA). A Mor Prom app that can only be used with Pink ID card. Then a government registration site that is first unusable, then found to be leaking data and shut down.

Yep, i registered with the Mor Prom app which has been sending daily updates but I'm not expecting to be vaccinated before October at earliest & when it happens it will be a private hospital administering it I'd imagine, at a cost. We're bottom of a big pile.

On 6/9/2021 at 9:37 AM, ericthai said:

really?? you know a couple of Myanmar workers are currently in a Thai jail rotting away for something they most likely didn't do, but I guess that's funny to you!

You guess wrong then Eric. What would be funny about that? 

Time to round up a couple more Myanmar workers?

17 hours ago, Mr Meeseeks said:

Well, it's not really your home is it? Or are you still in denial about your status here? 

 

Some people will never learn I guess.

HARSH yet true???? 

3 hours ago, pantsonfire said:

Anyone know how to apply? I want to see the costs.

It's what I went through in august to return to my home & family, all up was circa 200k, 80k chartered flight, 100k insurance+quaritine + 20k in covid tests, visa, fees, etc via the local Thai consulate. 

Wonder if the country he absconded to did their due diligence re issuance of his visas? 

13 hours ago, JusticeGB said:

I was at an unnamed disco on Saturday. Extremely crowded, temperature taken on arrival and phone number of my girlfriend. Inside apart from the staff nobody wearing masks! Social Distancing a complete joke with people dancing and kissing. Disco probably provides a very large brown envelope. Left at 4AM. 

I take it you enjoy Russian roulette & eating hospital food. 

You really need to give yourself a shake buddy. 

2 hours ago, Matzzon said:

Nothing new with that. It´s the requirement since they started granting entry again. Has been in threads before.

 

If you understand why is not relevant at all. You just have two choices. Comply with the requirements and get your visa. Reunite with your wife and kids. Or you can just refuse and stay home. Sorry, I know it´s rock hard to post like this, but that´s the cold hard facts.

 The PRE, note pre Covid-19 testing prior to application for the COE is new.

It is a new requirement of the Royal Thai embassy in NZ which they divulged late on Friday in a reply email after enquiring as to the status of my application. 

Yes I understand why tests are required 72 hrs before flights. 

I don't understand why Covid-19 tests are required to post an APPLICATION for the COE but concede after 20 years living in the Kingdom I do understand well how it rolls. 

I did the test yesterday, 7000thb. It's costly, time consuming and needlessly putting strain onto many, imo. I don't understand the need at this initial stage. 

I paid$NZD350/THB7000 yesterday for the swab/ covid test + fit to fly medical to appease the Thai embassy NZ request. I have submitted all other dox incl ASQ booking, health insurance, flight booking (all paid for) details along with letters from my wife, her hospital, my employer, myself, marriage/ birth/ bank certs etc. 

Married with children, I'll comply per instruction until repatriated, per statements issued by Thai MoFA. 

1 hour ago, rimmae2 said:

Please provide evidence from an official source that on application as stated below is required and from when this requirement was introduced:

 

1 on application

1 72 hours before departure

"Please note that your copies of Covid-free health certificate (item 1.5) and Fit-to-fly health certificate (item 1.6) are required for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Thailand's consideration. Once you. application is approved, you are required to again obtain Covid-free health certificate (item 3.3) and Fit-to-fly health certificate (item 3.4) which must be issued no more than 72 hours before departure."

13 hours ago, rimmae2 said:

To the OP I was informed in the last week by a Thai Official in the Embassy where I am that docs rferred to are not required for MoFA consideration so either possibly there is inconsistent information from Embassies or it is a 'new' requirement. Has your application been forwarded to MoFA?

Thanks for this information. I've always been aware each embassy has their own play book, over the last 3 months on periodically requesting answers and updates from the NZ embassy in Wellington I'm told "we will inform you". Sadly they haven't been. I liken their demand of the pre application tests akin to swatting away a bothersome fly.  

1 hour ago, dbrenn said:

The UK has just lifted quarantine restrictions for arrivals from 50 or so countries, but Thailand isn't on the list even though it has controlled Covid pretty well.

That says it all eh. 

40 minutes ago, RichardColeman said:

so you now need two tests for covid, 1 for apply and 1 before fly ? Getting silly now

 

Going to test the water bring my wife to the uk for a few months, Thailand is dissapearing up its own bottom in paperwork currently.

 

 

Yeah roger that, re all. 

54 minutes ago, BritTim said:

First, I agree that the requirement for health certificates on application is dubious, especially as quarantine is required on entry as well. I can find justifications, but I suspect the real reason is that they want to limit the number applying to only those absolutely determined to return.

 

I am pretty sure this is a global requirement. The MFA is not willing, at this stage, to vary the rules by country. Possibly, they may look less closely at the health certificates when you are coming from a safe country. There is a decent chance that there will eventually be a travel bubble between New Zealand and Thailand, but I do not get the feeling you want to wait months in the hope it will happen.

 

EDIT: A possible legitimate justification for health certificates ahead of time is that the MFA wants to ensure they are adequate, on the assumption that the updated certificates before travel will be similar. Dubious, but not completely absurd.

Good positive points, thanks for these. 

3 hours ago, tribalfusion001 said:

I thought Australians were barred from leaving the country and New Zealand too.

 

I'm already planning a couple of trips to Spain and Germany this summer, no chance of getting back to Thailand before Q4.

Aussies can't, kiwis can. 

The immigration office in Kantang wants to see 400k in for 2 months but seems different story depending on each regional office.

14 hours ago, ChipButty said:

PRISON LOCKDOWN 

Coronavirus UK: ‘Drug-dealing kingpin’ extradited from Thailand at centre of suspected outbreak at high-security jail

AN alleged drug-dealing kingpin is at the centre of a suspected corona-virus outbreak at a high-security jail.

Mark Rumble, 31, arrived back in the UK on January 27 after being extradited from Thailand to face charges of conspiracy to supply class A drugs.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/uknews/10942974/coronavirus-drug-dealer-prisoner-uk-jail-outbreak/

 

Wonder what it cost for his Get out of Thai jail fee?

...plus don't forget to enter your Non O visa number on the TM.6 re-entry form (like I once did) and got just 30 days re-entry....only realising once home, and a long way from the border????.

12 hours ago, Yadon Toploy said:

New Zealand is nothing like Thailand on the roads.

 

In fact it is like the polar opposite.

To repeat with the added...born and raised in NZ and having driven the roads there for 40+ years, and with 20 years living & driving in Thailand (all corners in both), plus having driven extensively in the UK, Europe, Australia & North America (coast to coast several times) I find there are "TOO MANY AGGRESSIVE DRIVERS in both countries...ie NZ & Thailand. My own opinion, not a

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fact

but you're most welcome to your own opinion which needless to say you'll be extremely well qualified on.

The passport expires however the visa inside the expired passport remains valid, and yes you need to have the new passport in hand also. Does confuse some folk ie bank tellers, one of which suggested i cut my expired passport up????, but works fine generally for me sir. The 5 Yr validity passports were a <deleted> bad idea.

my reason believe it or not is enjoying a life with more freedom & less bureaucracy, rules & regulations.