Pattaya46 Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 57 minutes ago, syncmaster7 said: how in the world can people remember the website's name? can't they make it shorter and easier to remember.. Who in the world tries to remember website's address ? You just google: evisa thailand and get: https://www.evisathailand.com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kannot Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 1 hour ago, bluesofa said: Multiple browsers? You mean there's another one apart from Netscape? yeah Mosaic 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
crickets Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 Looks like they picked the countries out of a hat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bkkgriz Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 5 hours ago, kannot said: 20 "economies"? do they mean countries? Can't say countries. It would offend the Chinese overlords. Taiwan is part of China. At least according to those in Beijing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuuKondiao Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 53 minutes ago, lonewolf99 said: I flew in from KL on monday evening and I saw no more than 40 Chinese nationals milling around the VOA area...the rest of immigration was basically empty no one was queueing, they were just walking up to the desks just like I did. I have a Chinese friends and they came to Thailand last year and applied directly to the Thai consulate in Guangzhou and got a visa in 3 days. Flew to BKK and walked through like anyone else would. I think it is the "sheeple" that suffer travelling in tour groups that end up handing their passports over to a person with a small teddy on a stick and cause the blockages at the airports. I have not travelled through UtaPao for years but the I have seen the many planes flying in and out. Since Jomtien is infested with Russians again and Chinese tour groups I guess there are large numbers passing through there ? any one been there recently to see immigration in action ? I flew in (to Chiang Mai) from Beijing - from Vancouver, from Las Vegas - 27 days ago and what I saw was a mob of ? maybe 50- 60 Chinese people in a mob around the VOA window, milling and talking to the patient Thai lady standing outside, yelling at each other, yelling at their cell phones, passing passports overhead to people on to the Thai lady who passed them to the window to get stamped in handfulls and passed back to people in the mob who passed them to individuals, yelling to each other..... By the time I got close to the window the patient Thai lady just took my passport and handed it back and told me, in English, no visa needed as my Arrival Card was my 30-day permit. Then I got into the mob of 600-or-so Chinese with about 5 farangs, crowding into lanes ( hard to tell with Chinese as they crowd so many people into a space and they hide tiny Chinese babies in their arms), all yelling and letting people in ahead of them and passing passports over-head and back and forth and babies around, and worked up to the front of the line where there were 4 windows for Chinese and one for farangs and 1 for Thais and they were letting the Chinese into the other two lines. They were stamping the Chinese on through but they stopped me to ask about the guest house where I have made the reservation to. Surprise. I had the address right but she wanted to know the phone number. How the hell should I know ? A moment of near-panic but I did some breathing and waited and she took my photo and stamped the date and waved me through. What is my point? I think the day will come when Thai people have to stand in line in Thailand and wait for their rations of rice from their Chinese masters. That is the way it is in Xinkiang or whatever the Chinese call the homeland of the Uighurs, and in Tibet now. What is going to stop it from happening here? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polkop11 Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 It looks like a list of countries that transfer funds in a suitcase Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DPKANKAN Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 3 hours ago, Teddy3943 said: Andorra, Cyprus, Malta, Mauritius, Marino..... a huge number of tourists to deal with.... I was trying to figure out the logic of the choice for the countries mentioned. Unfortunately I'm running out of options... And do not forget the millions of tourists from.... Bhutan.....Maldives....Papua New Guinea... Swampy will be swamped!!! 5555???????????????? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oxx Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 (edited) 1 hour ago, Pattaya46 said: Who in the world tries to remember website's address ? You just google: evisa thailand and get: https://www.evisathailand.com/ That is not an official site. It's run by some dodgy outfit based in Ibiza. More about their premises with photo at: Edited January 30, 2019 by Oxx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JackGats Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 5 hours ago, bluesofa said: It's probably so they can include Taiwan in the list, and avoid calling it a country so as not to offend China, who the government here is shit scared of offending. Well-spotted! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StevieAus Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 3 hours ago, Ramdas said: And what about the European countries ? Nothing mentioned either ????????♂️ There are 55 countries that are visa exempt for tourists I think that you will find that most European countries are on that list 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
metisdead Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 A troll post has been removed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nobbie49 Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 Saudi Arabia?? Ever since the jewelry theft Saudis were forbidden from traveling to Th unless they received personal approval of the Saudi interior minister. Things have changed? Just wanted to know if these charming broad minded cretins would ever soil this place Sent from my iPhone using Thaivisa Connect 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tandor Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 6 hours ago, bluesofa said: Well spotted sir. ..same day as NASA..maybe crossed wires somewhere haha. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oxx Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 4 hours ago, kannot said: 5 hours ago, bluesofa said: Multiple browsers? You mean there's another one apart from Netscape? yeah Mosaic And you're forgetting Lynx. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lvr181 Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 7 hours ago, Teddy3943 said: Andorra, Cyprus, Malta, Mauritius, Marino..... a huge number of tourists to deal with.... I was trying to figure out the logic of the choice for the countries mentioned. Unfortunately I'm running out of options... Large numbers only from China and India, all the rest some dribs and drabs. So it's is not a big logistical exercise I would think. But, I could be wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
natway09 Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 India has been doing the E Visas for years 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awinkl Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 Just shows, how far down the list "some" Countries are - or NOT EVEN ON THAT LIST, because the Economies of the mentioned Countries are so much more important, than US, European, Australian ......?? "TIT" explains it all.... 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sydebolle Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 What a relief! Next thing might be daily A380 flights from Part Larnaca, Suva, La Valetta, Port Moresby and Rimini ................. dealing with the huge increase of visitors due to the electronic-visa-on-arrival-enjoyers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lavezzi Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 12 hours ago, kannot said: and make us a <deleted> load of money, after all we are a business yes, at least 10.000 bath a year from people from Papua New Guinea Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billp Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 The list is not random, it's simply those countries eligible for Visa on Arrival (which is NOT the free visa exemption). The citizens of those countries have to get a 15-day visa at a cost of 2000 baht (fee currently waived until April 30th). The eVOA has already been up-and-running since November using https://www.evisathailand.com/ Many reports that this has considerably streamlined the VOA process which can take two hours or more when planeloads of Chinese and Indians land, reducing the wait to around 10 minutes. So I'm confused about this new announcement. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jabis Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 I'd suppose https://extranet.immigration.go.th/voaonline/ would be the official site but could be wrong ???? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
farangx Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 20 hours ago, webfact said: The move comes due to rising number of tourists every year, with 7 million getting visas on arrival, which has led to congestion and inconvenience. Bulk of the VOA visitors is with China. If the government take China off this VOA list, then the congestion will simply disappear. Oh yes, the money for nothing .... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AloisAmrein Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 There is no country with the name Marino. It should be San Marino, a ministate in the middle of Italy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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