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Before the Consulate issues the Certificate of Entry (COE), the applicant must upload
4.1 Travel plan (confirmed air ticket with proof of payment),
4.2 Fit to Fly health certificate (72 hours before departure date),
4.3 COVID-19 health certificate (test negative) (72 hours before departure date); and
4.4 Confirmation of ASQ. The applicant must arrange their own 14-day Alternative State Quarantine (ASQ) at their own expenses. More information, including list of permitted hotels (in Thai) can be found here at http://hsscovid.com
That eliminates alot of us. You cannot get the fit to fly letter in the US. Perhaps several other countries too?
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Set up CCTV around the house or move. Do not let her know where you moved to. Either option works.
Don't be a pawn to a fool. And get divorced if you have not done so already.
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Excellent news. Why should Stone be walking free, and Cohen locked up? Wanna know what a real "witch hunt" looks like?
A righteous judge answers a most corrupt justice department. Goodbye Barr! You too are heading towards a life of humiliation, scorn and irrelevance come November, along with your incompetent boss.
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20 hours ago, Jumbo1968 said:
I emailed the Thai Embassy in London a couple of weeks ago regarding myself, partner and son travelling back together but I never received a reply.
Worth under 200 million baht? No connections? Not worthy of a reply.
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Another boil in the face of the nation. Law and order? What is that? Only applies to us plebs.
Anyone with at least 200 million baht here is above the law. If you have billions, you are above any and all laws. Especially the weak, morally bankrupt, and anemic army.
At least this way things are more transparent. From what I understand, Interpol never received any request for extradition and the entire ruse was a total scam. Nobody ever looked for this murderous maggot.
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After gorging on Fox News and Rush Limbaugh for nine hours, rather than governing the nation, Trump likely watched the movie Bushwick, and came up with this plan to invade US cities with unidentified soldiers of some sort.
Many of us know who the best person to lock up is, at this point. Certainly not the soccer moms.
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At 40,000 a month, you are going to be counting baht, 24/7 for the rest of your life. Not much fun in that.
And you also need to take into account inflation. Though the official numbers here are low, we all see prices going up constantly.
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More tone deaf policy from Trump. It is not working this time, Don. You dodged the draft five times, and you are pretending to be tough. We are not buying it.
You are dismissed. Pack your bags. Just a few months to go. See ya!
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4 hours ago, Mr Meeseeks said:
Bad news for those stuck outside trying to get in, especially those who will not be allowed back as they don't have a valid reason to be here or the funds to secure a seat on the few flights remaining.
Still, going to be a great high season. Beautiful weather, pick of the beaches, hotel bargains everywhere... Enjoy it while it lasts.
Every cloud and all that.
I tend to agree. It is what it is. Had an utterly delightful time in Bangkok a week ago. Amazing. Hardly anyone there. A few places were busy. The malls were busy with locals. But alot of people in need. Alot of great hotel bargains! And seemed like less traffic than usual.
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16 minutes ago, thaibeachlovers said:
I hope he did a proper job. I sometimes paid an "electrician" to do some work in the house as it wasn't my house and I needed someone to blame if it went wrong. I almost always had to redo their work as I didn't want to die of electrocution. Were not even able to join two pieces of wire properly.
My wife paid someone to do some welding on a gate. Gate fell off after they left- had to borrow welder and do it myself.
Outstanding work. As good as in the US. It is all about vetting contractors here. He came highly recommended.
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13 hours ago, bwpage3 said:
Mike are you broke?
Food is probably cheaper here than at Tesco Lotus on many things.
Gas is cheaper.
Cars are cheaper.
Over inflated housing? You are really reaching.
Somehow Mike, there are millions of Americans making minimum wage that are able to find a place to live. It is not all doom and gloom.
Do expect to live Oceanfront for 10,000 baht a month?
Not sure what standard of living you think you deserve, however, we all work and can afford what our career's and life worked has afforded us.
If you cannot afford anything, either you are looking in Beverly Hills where you don't belong, or you never did any meaningful work for an income that lets you afford to live the way you want.
It's not the USA's fault.
I moved back to go back to work so I wouldn't be living a meager existence in Thailand.
Have a beautiful home, cars, travel, go out to eat a lot and no I don't make anywhere near $1 million. Just a Joe Blow like everyone else.
You would be surprised how many uneducated Thai's I have run across in the USA with nice houses, driving a Benz.
That has not been my experience. I know alot of Americans working two jobs, trying to survive. They do not have a high quality of life.
Thailand is still reasonable. It used to be cheap. Has not been cheap for a long time. But, it is still reasonable. I know people who pay 10,000 baht a month for newer 3 bedroom houses in nice towns. In major cities in the US? $2000-3800 a month. That is 120,000 baht!
I had my motorbike seat recently redone on my scooter. 400 baht. A friend of mine had similar work done in the US. $275.
I recently had a guy come over and insulate my ceiling. I bought the insulation and paid him 2000 baht for labor. In the US? $500 and up.
I recently had an electrician do some work on the house. Nearly a full day of work. Paid him 1000 baht. In the US? $800 and up.
An oil change for my scooter costs me 200 baht, with Castrol oil. In the US?
When I travel here I stay in nice four star hotels in Bangkok. 1800-2000 baht. In the US? $130 for a crappy motel. $200 and up for a nice room.
I eat well here. In a smaller town you can get a three course meal for 200-250 baht. In the US? 2000 baht and up, plus tax and a nearly mandatory 15% tip.
I visit the emergency room here to see a specialist, and with x-rays I am out the door for 2000 baht, at a private hospital. In the US? $300-2000.
Friends of mine, who are single, enjoy the company of a young, beautiful woman for a couple of hours, for 2500 baht. In the US? $800 an hour now for a decent look gal, with alot of attitude.
I could go on and on, all day long. I live at a level here, that I would never be able to live at, in the US, in most of Europe, in Oz, or Canada.
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1 hour ago, robertson468 said:
Yet again, the Government has not thought this through. It would be well worth checking the Educational Qualifications of all the MPs.............oh wait, we are in Thailand, sorry forgot!
Thailand is, and always has been the polar opposite of a meritocracy. They choose ministers and advisors from the bottom of the barrel.
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15 minutes ago, Expat Tom said:The mere fact that the Thai authorities would even consider letting Chinese back into this country is idiotic. In 1957 the Chinese gave the world the Asian Flu followed by the Hong Kong flu, the Bird flu, SARS, Swine flu and the CCP Wuhan,China ( Incase you don't know where the current pandemic came from....Wuhan) coronavirus. Now there is acknowledgement from China that there is a new Swine flu and Bubonic Plague in the country. Additionally, on one in the WORLD accepts the numbers from the CCP as fact. A recent French study states that the likely true number of CCP Virus cases in China exceeds 4,000,000 and the deaths in the 100's of thousands.
There are a few possible answers as to why the Thai authorities would consider letting Chinese back into Thailand:
1) They are woefully uninformed
2) They are ignorant
3) There is huge money interest either in pretutating the counter productive destructive "mass tourism model" in the which the country receives more environment and infrastructure damage than monetary benefit.
4) Someone or some group is receiving direct payments to promote Chinese tourism...aka, bribery.
5) Thailand is truly a vassal state to China.
When the majority of the members of ASEAN are lining up to confront Chinese bullying and aggression throughout the region, why does Thailand want to throw the doors open and welcome their "Big Brother's" from the North.
Thailand will soon find itself as the "Odd man out in ASEAN"
Thailand has never demonstrated much respect for ASEAN. They have signed countless treaties, only to never comply with the provisions. They have always behaved like the "tiger in the region". All of that is changing now, whether they accept it or not. Thailand is becoming less relevant by the day.
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15 hours ago, Don Mega said:
Great, so you agree he broke the law and was punsished accordingly, not sure why all the butthurt.
speaking of butthurt I got 8 speeding fines in the mail yesterday, such an inane law lacking any sort of real substance that does not change, improve or affect anything.... I should make a thread crying about it.
No. Just ignore them as most of us do, and most of the nation does. Again, we are going back to the validity and sensibility of a law? Does 80kph on the elevated toll roads make sense? Does 90kph on divided four lane highways make sense? Do these silly speed limits make the nation safer? With over 6,000 fatalities within the first six months of the year, on the roads, I would argue not.
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Even prior to Covid, tourists visas were hard to get for anyone other than from a wealthy family. Now? And you are really locking yourself into something, as she may not be able to return for a year, at least.
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1 hour ago, Don Mega said:He broke the law and copped a fine, why does this upset you so much ?
When laws are totally inane, and lacking in any sort of real substance, how do they serve society? This law is akin to the pixelation of nudity in the cinema or of someone smoking a cigarette. How does that change, improve or affect anything? It is based entirely on false morality and a sort of shrill prudisness, and in no manner contributes to society or benefits the social fabric.
Clear enough?
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8 minutes ago, bwpage3 said:
Your post started out great, but then, once again, you delve in your tirade against the USA and most of what you say is untrue.
How can you say out of control inflation when the subprime interest rate is <3%?
I think we get your point over and over and over that you cannot afford to live in the USA and are very bitter about that.
Sure Mike, no 20 year old woman in America is going to go out with a 60 year old.
There are lovely, fit, feminine women everywhere.
They just don't want a grandpa for a husband. Cannot blame them for that.
Any person can find faults in any country in the world.
That is your right and your opinions, even if they are not true!
Only someone living in the US, could be that defensive about it!
Inflation has been out of control in the US for a long time. Not officially, of course. But, every time I go back there it is surprising how much basic staples have gone up. Not to mention highly overinflated housing and health care.
As far as living back there, it would take alot. Maybe a million dollars a year, for five years?
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Such nonsense. By an administration that is so misled. And instead of real policy, what do we end up with?
An utter and complete unwillingness to tackle the scams, and corruption in general, or the traffic and public safety issues, the lack of a competent and effective police force, that foreigners and locals can count on, when they need them.
The environmental issues, and so many other causes, are all having an impact on tourism.
The inept military government, who nobody likes, and most people despise, haphazard and xenophobic immigration policy, meant to deter tourism, and ex-pats, rather than encourage them, racist ranting from the government, often directed at tourists and ex-pats and a nonsensical nationalistic agenda, that is pure politics.
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35 minutes ago, Boon Mee said:Jesus!
It's like the whole Chinese Virus is Trump's fault?
. Some people need to get a grip on reality...
The virus is not his fault. The extent to which it has spread, and the gross, partisan mismanagement of it is, to a large extent. So much could have been done, so much earlier. His level of incompetence as a leader is frightening.
He is done. Toast. He was knocked out by Covid, one minute into the first round.
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3 minutes ago, Upnotover said:Well it does say this;
I think these are additional groups, not replacements of existing allowed returnees.
Does anyone know anything about this? And will the husbands be subject to quarantine, if they have a covid test result? How about if the Thai wife is traveling with them?
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After all the destruction, hatred, havoc, bad policy, and ill will this man has sown, it is sure fun to watch him self destruct.
He is literally cascading toward the greatest humiliation of his lifetime, and a life of utter scorn and obscurity.
See ya Don! Pack your bags. Or better yet, resign now, or quit the campaign. That money could be put to better use. You have disgraced yourself and your nation.
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Be very afraid Prayuth. The youth will no doubt be your undoing. Your army is despised by most. And so are you. The youth are the only hope this nation has of progressing, and moving forward.
That is precisely why you are living in a constant state of fear of them!
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That means zero medical tourism. And how do they check those attending a conference? Rapid testing? Or no testing? Only from bubble nations? Does anyone in the administration have any answers?
I guess the husbands of Thai wives category was quickly abandoned? Nice. Compassionate. Of course we all know we are far less important to the nation than an attendee of a conference.
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Thai Tourism Minister touts September for return of international tourists
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Pipat has got to be one of the least talented and qualified of all ministers in this spectacularly sorry administration. He likely needs assistance tying his shoes in the morning. Where do they find these guys? Why do they always engage in such bottom of the barrel selections? Reminds me of an administration running the country I come from.