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It's good they are keeping the numbers small. 

 

However, i sense they will open up soon enough. I don't really trust Thai authorities to closely monitor a high number of people in quarantine. I've already witnessed alot of abuses during the process. 

 

The grass always looks greener on the other side, but if the virus rips through Thailand it will be carnage and everything closed down again, with life loss. 

Posted
5 hours ago, Peterw42 said:

There appears to be no mention of the $100k insurance requirement, hopefully that has been dropped.

 

NOT A CHANCE IN HELL this will be dropped. The hospitals in Thailand are making a killing (literally) with this insurance policy.

Posted
8 hours ago, from the home of CC said:

it's time that your running low on if an alternate visa strategy wasn't developed, hopefully you're covered. Were you in a bad accident? You would of had to have been unconscious for a month to 'get stuck here' for there was plenty of advanced notices on travelling if you had access to the internet...

Oh lord forgive them, they don't know what they are talking about.

Posted

is there a 250 a month quota for elite visa holders? if true, that crazy with the amount of money that was spent to secure that visa, i have the visa but not affix yet, so this is ridiculous to me, Im beginning to look at other options,

Mexico,, Columbia, the Caribbean , i had enough of this back and forth daily nonsense of opening Thailand.

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Posted

This is a test.  A dip your toe in the water to see what sort of outcome they get.  Let's face it they don't seem to have a clue about solving the problem.  If this works out in a few months they will double the number of visa's.  ????

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Posted
6 hours ago, Jim P said:

Why would you be on a pension when under 50 unless you have some sort of disability?

 

I started to receive my military pension aged 40 years old. Not rocket science????

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Posted
3 hours ago, hoopsandyoyo said:

...even if I own a condo, am I still required to do the 14-day quarantine in a pre-approved hotel?

Could you be trusted to stay inside your room/s? Who would bring you food/water, supplies, take out your rubbish etc? Just a thought!

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Posted

What a joke. What type of "tourist" has 14 days to kill on a vacation? That's a pretty common length of vacation to a place like Thailand anyway. And then what "tourist" plans to stay in a place for nine months? The only people that would up for this is those that want to come and work under the table and avoid doing border runs. 

 

Posted
7 hours ago, howerde said:

Well Malaysia  has closed its borders til at least 31 Dec  and no short term visitors allowed into Singapore, so Thailand would be ahead of them in letting tourists in, i also believe that all surrounding countries have closed their borders, so perhaps they are all working together to keep tourists out, does that sound crazy?

I'm well aware of current regulation, otherwise no special appeal would be needed, right? People coming from Thailand would be an extremely low, virtually zero risk.

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Posted (edited)
14 hours ago, MadMac said:

And how do they get in? Flights are banned, remember?

EVA and Thai are both flying once a week flights to/from the UK.

But I think to come in, you need to sign up to go into quarantine for two weeks.

(It was restricted to Thai nationals a few months ago, but I believe foreign spouses are allowed now, etc.)

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Posted

All you need is a private jet or chartered plane as a requirement to be allowed in with this Visa for teh test round.

Dang, I only own a helicopter.

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Posted
1 hour ago, HerewardtheWake said:

I do not recall seeing anything in this announcement about the Long Term Visa about the $100,000 covid19 insurance. Could anybody please comment?

There's nothing in this announcement. 14 day quarantine? $100,000 Covid insurance? Covid test 72 hours before flying? Entry certificate from Thai embassy? Which countries can participate? Nothing is known.

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Posted
25 minutes ago, Ganesh108 said:

I'm well aware of current regulation, otherwise no special appeal would be needed, right? People coming from Thailand would be an extremely low, virtually zero risk.

So why are they, unlike some countries, required to undergo 14 day quarantine when entering the UK?

Posted
14 hours ago, MadMac said:

And how do they get in? Flights are banned, remember?

Exactly, and getting everything up and running again is a huge task for every airline and they need bums on seats. This paltry proposal fails totally. 

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Posted
4 hours ago, AndrewMciver said:

 

NOT A CHANCE IN HELL this will be dropped. The hospitals in Thailand are making a killing (literally) with this insurance policy.

How are Hospitials making money from the insurance ?

Posted
1 hour ago, spermwhale said:

What a joke. What type of "tourist" has 14 days to kill on a vacation? That's a pretty common length of vacation to a place like Thailand anyway. And then what "tourist" plans to stay in a place for nine months? The only people that would up for this is those that want to come and work under the table and avoid doing border runs. 

 

People who are unemployed may want to come to Thailand and wait it until the economy recovers.

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Posted
11 hours ago, Ganesh108 said:

Not entirely true. I know some very rich Indians who often visit to Phuket. Sometimes by private plane. The 1000+ $ / day for a discreetly located posh villa are nothing for them.  But of course they're a tiny minority.

 

11 hours ago, Ganesh108 said:

Not entirely true. I know some very rich Indians who often visit to Phuket. Sometimes by private plane. The 1000+ $ / day for a discreetly located posh villa are nothing for them.  But of course they're a tiny minority.

Read the word Majority.

Posted (edited)
14 hours ago, tomazbodner said:

If you're over 50, you can put 800k in bank account and apply for retirement extensions, provided you keep that in the bank all the time, or at least most of the time.

If you're married, you can put 400k in the bank account and apply for a marriage extension.

...

If you are a parent of a Thai child, you can apply for extension based on that.

...According to the rules, prove 65K/mo for retirement - 40K/mo if Thai family - is fine.  They even provide an example of showing fewer payments for 1st-time applicants.  But actually doing this is something else - with some income-types "disqualified,"  - and in some offices income not allowed at all.

And then there are the "extra requirements" added specific to each office, which include things which are entirely impossible to obtain - like "Your landlord, who lives overseas, needs to go to a Thai amphoe for .." type requests.  Never mind they are coming to your residence to verify you live there.

 

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If you have a decent job in Thailand, you can apply for extension based on work permit, ...

Except if they change the rules to add "extra requirements" the week before you apply, then deny allowing further applications, due to your company following covid-specific tax rules and/or requiring remote-work (thus, no "pictures in the office") during the outbreak.

 

Skipped the parts on PR or Citizenship - would take too much explaining - but there are 2 threads on those which are worth reading, if anyone is under the false-impression obtaining those is anything remotely "routine."

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Money printing business is booming. No real cash is being generated. World wide. 

with a deadly Infectious virus and shut borders, what’s the point?

Posted
14 hours ago, Matzzon said:

Now I do not get it. Many have been stuck for month on visa amnesty. Why should they let them stay longer first. If just a tourist visa on amnesty, they must be out of money now, and in real need to come home and work again for their next holiday. Everything else regarding people on visa extension I agree about.

Why would they be "out of money"?  Are you familiar with the digital-economy?  One does not need to sit in an office in a specific building, between certain hours, to earn money, any more. 

 

14 hours ago, Zikomat said:

At the same time, being over 50 or married to Thai does not guarantee, in any way, that one is useful for the country.

If married, you are useful to someone - likely supporting a Thai family.  Even those retired are spending foreign-sourced capital here. 

But those not meeting those criteria ALSO spend foreign-capital here (or would be homeless), and should be given an simple and legal way to obtain extensions of stay, at a cost not excessive relative to the cost-of-living in Thailand.

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Posted
56 minutes ago, bkk_mike said:

EVA and Thai are both flying once a week flights to/from the UK.

 

In recent months there have been ~ 25 official repatriation flights (per month, from all over), all with excess capacity. 

 

They have the staff and a process at SBIA/BKK to handle repartiation flights.

 

So my guess is that they'll try to steer STV'ers onto exisiting repatriation flights?

Posted
14 hours ago, CorpusChristie said:

No one is getting kicked out though, many of us have gotten visas from within Thailand so that we can remain here .

  Why didnt you also get a visa ?

How many times do we have to post our "denied legit extension application" reports, before you folks understand how it "really is" outside your reality-bubble?

 

14 hours ago, 86Tiger said:

As others have stated, Thailand has been more than lenient in accommodating for those truly prohibited from traveling.  They have also been practically begging every one to get legal over past couple months. 

While consistently blocking legit-applications using the same "go to agent" schemes as before. 
 

14 hours ago, 86Tiger said:

Those that did nothing, time is up.

And, apparently, those who tried and qualified by the "official rules" and were denied.  All that remains is the embassy-letter method - if one's embassy is willing to grovel just a bit.  International-diplomacy has provided the only non-criminal path to relief.

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Amazing Thailand! The land of smiles or is it!

 

Another hair dye idea that goes not where!  First you want everyone that has been getting a free ride September 26th, to go home. if it is about money just tack on a fee/charge call it what you want for them to stay and continue to spend as they have been spending. Why would you come up with another program after they leave 90 days extension for 2000 baht a pop. One poster page one said " leave then apply back again " if a person in leadership or any person with any logic in their Cortex would put two and two together the restrictions are still in place, C.O.E. testing, NO SCHEDULE FLIGHTS, before you even get quarantine.

 

For those who want to stay been here prior charge them 3000 baht for 90 extensions and thereafter 2000 a pop or a flat rate of 7000 baht for the full 270 days.

 

All these so call programs all these so call projections of people that are coming in get real. All smoke and mirrors, wake up and smell the coffee, grasping for straws with no substance in any of your so call programs!  no critical thinking as to how thinks work in the real world.

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