Tourist visa without insurance - almost deported

[anyone]

I'm arrived to Don Muang airport 1 week ago as tourist.

Officer said I need 
1. Return ticket
2. Insurance
3. Pocket money
As I live here a few years already (non-B) I did not prepared it yet. After a few hours in buffer zone they let me in. Last time.
Is all 3 points are mandatory now??

[GeorgeCross]

6 minutes ago, anyone said:

As I live here a few years already (non-B) I did not prepared it yet.

 

do you have any previous tourist visa/visa exempt/voa entries at all or are they all non-B?

 

as far as i know insurance is not required for any visa except non-oa and non-ox

 

[ubonjoe]

1. Not needed if you have a valid visa for entry. With no visa you need a ticket out ot the country within 30 days.

2. Not required.

3. It is the equivalent 20k baht in cash or 10k baht for a visa exempt entry.

[jumbo]

19 minutes ago, ubonjoe said:

1. Not needed if you have a valid visa for entry. With no visa you need a ticket out ot the country within 30 days.

2. Not required.

3. It is the equivalent 20k baht in cash or 10k baht for a visa exempt entry.

ON 3.

My adult kids are coming soon, would they need cash or would an ATM be OK??

 

[jackdd]

1 minute ago, jumbo said:

ON 3.

My adult kids are coming soon, would they need cash or would an ATM be OK??

 

Only cash

There are no ATMs before immigration

[BritTim]

8 minutes ago, jumbo said:

ON 3.

My adult kids are coming soon, would they need cash or would an ATM be OK??

Must be cash, but not necessarily in Thai baht. The equivalent in any major currency is acceptable.

[jacko45k]

36 minutes ago, jackdd said:

Only cash

There are no ATMs before immigration

Or trav. cheques, although getting rare these days. 

(And for Brits.... not Thomas Cook ones).

[scubascuba3]

1 hour ago, ubonjoe said:

1. Not needed if you have a valid visa for entry. With no visa you need a ticket out ot the country within 30 days.

2. Not required.

3. It is the equivalent 20k baht in cash or 10k baht for a visa exempt entry.

With 3 i thought the 20,000 baht equivalent requirement was for a visa exempt family? one person on their own 10,000 baht equivalent. Tourist visa it's not required?

Edited November 7, 2019 by scubascuba3

[ubonjoe]

41 minutes ago, scubascuba3 said:

With 3 i thought the 20,000 baht equivalent requirement was for a visa exempt family? one person on their own 10,000 baht equivalent. Tourist visa it's not required?

The 20k baht is required for any visa entry or 40k baht for a family.

[jumbo]

42 minutes ago, ubonjoe said:

The 20k baht is required for any visa entry or 40k baht for a family.

So on a visa exempt it is not required?

[jumbo]

32 minutes ago, bbi1 said:

If your adults can carry an ATM full of cash with them then I'd say they must be super strong. What steroid cycle are they on?

 

I think the IO would let them in if they had an ATM full of cash when entering the country. Don't think there's been any reports of anyone taking an ATM with them though!

what is a 'your adult'?

[bbi1]

9 minutes ago, jumbo said:

what is a 'your adult'?

Your adult kids

[overherebc]

11 minutes ago, jumbo said:

So on a visa exempt it is not required?

It is still required for VE

[ChakaKhan]

2 hours ago, ubonjoe said:

1. Not needed if you have a valid visa for entry. With no visa you need a ticket out ot the country within 30 days.

2. Not required.

3. It is the equivalent 20k baht in cash or 10k baht for a visa exempt entry.

Be there in 2 weeks..flying into bkk..will seek 30 exempt from US, extend in cnx, then haul to mae sai for 2nd exempt and extend again 30+30+30+30=120 then head home..was last there 11 months ago for 120 as well

 

All good?  and is only 10k????  thanks in advance..just nervous with all the brewha lately over visa stuff

 

have return tix albeit in 120 days---and will have cash

[elviajero]

3 hours ago, jumbo said:

So on a visa exempt it is not required?

Visa Exemption is 10K per person or 20K for a family. 

[elviajero]

6 hours ago, anyone said:

I'm arrived to Don Muang airport 1 week ago as tourist.

Officer said I need 
1. Return ticket
2. Insurance
3. Pocket money
As I live here a few years already (non-B) I did not prepared it yet. After a few hours in buffer zone they let me in. Last time.
Is all 3 points are mandatory now??

1. All tourists should at least have an onward ticket. But you can’t be denied specifically for not having one. They’d have to deny under a different reason.

 

2. That has never been, and currently isn’t, a requirement for any tourist. I’m sure it will come eventually.

 

3. It is an official regulation that anyone entering carries “pocket money”. At least 20K if entering with a visa, or 10K using visa exemption. You can be denied entry for not having the required cash/travellers cheques.

[travelerjim]

3 hours ago, jumbo said:

So on a visa exempt it is not required?

Sorry I respectfully disagree with UbonJoe...

 

On all entries...  with visa or without...have 20,000 Thai baht or its equivalent in CASH to show Immigration Officer if asked.

 

Tj

[Tayaout]

6 minutes ago, travelerjim said:

Sorry I respectfully disagree with UbonJoe...

 

On all entries...  with visa or without...have 20,000 Thai baht or its equivalent in CASH to show Immigration Officer if asked.

 

Tj

It is 10K on visa exempt but you cant go wrong with 20K.

 

[LivinLOS]

3 minutes ago, Tayaout said:

It is 10K on visa exempt but you cant go wrong with 20K.

 

Really is crazy in this day and age, when the modern world is almost cashless (I never carry cash in UK or europe, maybe a 50 rolled up in my card clip for emergency use) that Thailand demands CASH for traveller almost certainly reliant on debit / credit cards. 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

1 hour ago, LivinLOS said:

Really is crazy in this day and age, when the modern world is almost cashless (I never carry cash in UK or europe, maybe a 50 rolled up in my card clip for emergency use) that Thailand demands CASH for traveller almost certainly reliant on debit / credit cards. 

 

Archaic rules from an archaic government and bureaucracy.

[dougiemac52]

7 hours ago, ubonjoe said:

1. Not needed if you have a valid visa for entry. With no visa you need a ticket out ot the country within 30 days.

2. Not required.

3. It is the equivalent 20k baht in cash or 10k baht for a visa exempt entry.

You only need 10k baht for single person. 20k is for a couple

[Lacessit]

8 hours ago, ubonjoe said:

1. Not needed if you have a valid visa for entry. With no visa you need a ticket out ot the country within 30 days.

2. Not required.

3. It is the equivalent 20k baht in cash or 10k baht for a visa exempt entry.

Is a bank statement from the country of origin showing the foreign currency balance is well above the requirement acceptable?

[anyone]

2 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

Is a bank statement from the country of origin showing the foreign currency balance is well above the requirement acceptable?

I'm showed them my Kasikorn bank book, they do not believed 555

Edited November 7, 2019 by anyone

[ubonjoe]

21 minutes ago, dougiemac52 said:

You only need 10k baht for single person. 20k is for a couple

Correct for a visa exempt entry.

For a entry using a valid visa it is 20k baht or individual or 40k baht for a family.

[Tayaout]

7 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

Is a bank statement from the country of origin showing the foreign currency balance is well above the requirement acceptable?

No. Only cash or travellers check. 

[ubonjoe]

7 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

Is a bank statement from the country of origin showing the foreign currency balance is well above the requirement acceptable?

Immigration wants to see cash.

[Firefan]

I did actually not know that one also have to be able to show 20k "pocket money" cash when arrive on a non-immigrant visa. Makes little sense as most of course will have shown capital capacity by getting any of those non-immigrant visas in the first place (based on work, retirement, investment Etc.). Oh well, TIT. But in all my years here I have never been asked (on non-im visas of diff types). Cheers!

[Max69xl]

9 hours ago, jackdd said:

Only cash

There are no ATMs before immigration

There are actually a money changer before Immigration. Close to the VOA-desk. 

[Max69xl]

1 hour ago, Firefan said:

I did actually not know that one also have to be able to show 20k "pocket money" cash when arrive on a non-immigrant visa. Makes little sense as most of course will have shown capital capacity by getting any of those non-immigrant visas in the first place (based on work, retirement, investment Etc.). Oh well, TIT. But in all my years here I have never been asked (on non-im visas of diff types). Cheers!

The money is for tourist visa holders and for people on 30 days visa exempt. 

[VBF]

1 hour ago, ubonjoe said:

Correct for a visa exempt entry.

For a entry using a valid visa it is 20k baht or individual or 40k baht for a family.

@ubonjoe You're rarely wrong, (and I believe we've discussed this before) so excuse the question but here 

 

 http://www.thaiembassy.org/london/en/services/7742/84451-Tourist-Visa.html

 

it says that the Tourist Visa Exemption Scheme requires "Proof of adequate finances for the duration of stay in Thailand i.e. traveller’s cheque or cash equivalent to 10,000 Baht per person and 20,000 Baht per family."

 

but nowhere on that page does it say that those with SETV (valid visa) need to show any cash on entry. This is obviously from the UK Embassy site.

They do indeed want financial evidence to apply for the visa but not, it appears, to enter Thailand.

 

What am I missing...if anything?

 

 

Edited November 7, 2019 by VBF