Single Entry Tourist Visa to Thailand now requires foreigners to show funds of 500k THB

[Miss Pickle]

I am sure people will be queuing up for it.Why would people jump through these loops get to Thailand ? The holiday resorts are deserted bars and restaurants closed.WHO makes up these rules they are delusional .If people have  Travel insurance that is all they need surely.I own a Condo if I want to come back  To the property I invested in  need 3 million in my THAI Bank account just crazy rules.

[overherebc]

3 minutes ago, from the home of CC said:

people were whining about this when they made the retirement seasoning changes also and using the same complaints about dead money and unsecured funds due to being in a Thai bank. Now there letting folks use their home bank and it's still about low interest and blah blah blah. IMO the Thai government best be vigilant in verifying the information provided to prove these financial requirement be extremely vetted. Tourists and expats have repeatedly proven here they will lie and cheat and bribe to enter this country and remain here. You would have to assume attempts to 'create' documentation proving funds will be rampant..

I'm sure UK banks will be falling over themselves to supply all your bank details to Thai Imm'.

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[katatonic]

2 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

Will anybody miss Kev and Tracy from Essex?

Significant demographic in normal times.

[from the home of CC]

1 hour ago, Ketyo said:

How are the African drug dealers going to get in? The ones who stand on the corner of Suk soi 13 and inquire about how business is when you walk past. I don't think many of them will maintain a bank balance of 500k for 6 months.

exactly

[Dave0206]

4 hours ago, HanSRT10 said:

Good!  Less crowd funding required for dumb @$$ cheap charley tourists who get themselves in to trouble and need others to solve the financial problems they and their family cant deal with

Although i may also not like crowd funding for stupidity last i checked it was not compulsory to donate to such causes.

Although most of us can afford holidays in los fully insured for any unforseen event that may occur i like so many others may not keep a bank balance of 500 000 thb or equivelant in any currency does not mean we are broke its just a choice of where you keep assets.

I hope you are well insured as if you fall from you're pedestal could hurt yoursef

[ThailandRyan]

40 minutes ago, kamahele said:

Not possible to show adequate credit card coverage I suppose.

My Luxury Card Gold Card, a MasterCard by Barclays has no limit, so how does that translate into showing someone a monetary amount since I have no spending limit.  If I wanted to buy a Lambo, and they took a Mastercard Gold, and Mastercard approved it, off of the showroom floor I drive.  I know plenty of people that do not have money just sitting around, instead they have assets that they can leverage, and by making a simple phone call they can get cash, many live there lives on their cards, and each is paid of monthly.

[overherebc]

5 minutes ago, OneMoreFarang said:

Will anybody miss Kev and Tracy from Essex?

The very quiet beach place me and she are in at the moment would welcome 6 Kevs and 6 Tracys at the moment I'm sure.

[Phoenix Rising]

13 minutes ago, Dogmatix said:

it’s a snob thing. They are a relatively poor country with a feudalistic structure and a huge wealth gap. The people who make the rules have the opportunity to become fabulously rich from unbridled corruption which puts them on the the top side of the wealth gap. They buy flats in Knightsbridge for their brats to study in  London and look down on farang kids who are just normal and don’t have parents who have been able to help themselves to taxpayers’ money like them.

I don't disagree with what you say but the persons I'm referring to are foreigners posting on this forum.

[sambum]

3 hours ago, riclag said:

Thats sad ! I was lucky my daughter came to visit in Nov 2019 !

Lets hope next year things calm down with less requirements

 

Only one thing to say to that!

[ThaiFelix]

Come on guys,  have you forgotten you are in Thailand?  Have you forgotten the process of Thai decision making?

 

1, Make the decision, 

2. Announce it and make it law,

3. and finally, think about the pros and cons before reversing steps 1. and 2.  (in actual fact the laws remain on the books and join the 100's of other laws that are never enforced, like riding in the back of pickups, etc).

[from the home of CC]

8 minutes ago, overherebc said:

I'm sure UK banks will be falling over themselves to supply all your bank details to Thai Imm'.

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don't know about that but I do know that people will attempt to game this system just like they have with every other requirement to stay here. If they can't get proper proof the visa should be rejected..

[Stevemercer]

Wow. That'smuch tougher for Thais seeking to travel to Australia.

 

[Mister MXYZPTLK]

Oh Thailand, Oh Thailand, where has thou Brains be hiding? ...

 

Now let me think about it. I want to travel on vacation (usually 60 days or less) during this Covid period to get away from old man winter...

 

I want to go to someplace warm, fun, easy to get to, easy to enjoy, easy to travel around, where people welcome me...

 

Hmmm, Let’s see... Nassau, Philippines, Vietnam, Cambodia, Bali, Hawaii, the list just goes on and on.  There are just so many places to choose from..

 

Hey! What about Thailand?  
Thailand!  Are you out of your mind?  No way!

 

1) they put you in prison quarantine for 14 days upon arrival
2) they put a tracking device on you

3) they require you to have $100,000 insurance policy 

4) and now you have to show them proof that you have $17,000 in your bank account for the last 6 months!

 

Thailand?  NAH!  Forget it!

[Sydebolle]

Good luck that all hotels are full to the rim, the restaurants do not know where to seat all those customers from far-away lands and tour buses clogging the streets of the Kingdom.

With the Muppet Show everyone knew at least that it was comedy, just on TV; here it is live all over the planet with the compliments of the real Muppets. 

[transam]

3 minutes ago, from the home of CC said:

don't know about that but I do know that people will attempt to game this system just like they have with every other requirement to stay here. If they can't get proper proof the visa should be rejected..

Immigration does not reject handing over visas  to "agents" acting for folk with no cash do they....

[from the home of CC]

2 minutes ago, transam said:

Immigration does not reject handing over visas  to "agents" acting for folk with no cash do they....

no, they don't. I believe they're trying to head off this problem before it arrives here..

[hotchilli]

5 hours ago, webfact said:

But now, applicants need to show a bank balance of 500,000 THB or equivalent.

Pattaya, Phuket, Samui CM you have my condolences.

RiP.

[paulikens]

it doesnt make any sense really, as no one can go on a tourist visa at the moment anyway.

unless they have changed the rules because they are about to let people in on tourist visas?   

surely once they start letting foreigners back in large numbers it will because covid infections will be low so then most countries will be low risk and then most people who wanna stay for more than a month will be able to apply for the stv visa.    but who knows what goes on in the minds of the people at the top 

[SupermarineS6B]

Ha ha.......  Just when you thought they'd ran out of stupid things to say........ Well done...... I hope all the foreign Embassies are taking this garbage in and reporting it back to their countries.......  

[moe666]

4 hours ago, Haggislover said:

For the average man/ family in the UK, a annual holiday is planned and cash saved in advance, 12000 quid ? to have dead in bank?? Other destinations are on the card now, another instance of thai lunacy

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With the current out break of covid I do not think very many places are on the cards.

[SupermarineS6B]

16 minutes ago, from the home of CC said:

don't know about that but I do know that people will attempt to game this system just like they have with every other requirement to stay here. If they can't get proper proof the visa should be rejected..

Please go home....... 

[Eindhoven]

1 minute ago, from the home of CC said:

don't know about that but I do know that people will attempt to game this system just like they have with every other requirement to stay here. If they can't get proper proof the visa should be rejected..

 

Show 500,000 baht for a tourist to visit Thailand? Why would they do that? Cannot imagine any tourist would be bothered with all that. No, that will be people with ties to Thailand and a few people who have staff to organise their trips.

 

They are obviously hanging on to the notion that Thailand is now an exclusive holiday location; therefore the elite will do and pay anything to be able to plant their feet on COVID-19 free land.

 

It will take time for them to realise that their schemes and plans are doomed to failure.

 

No Billionaires are rushing to Phuket as they hoped. Of course a lot of their statements are meant for domestic ears; to placate them. Plus they have a little breathing space because the polls states that Thais don't want the re-introduction of COVID-19 throughout the country.

 

But they need to come up with something better than the utter nonsense they have conjured up thus far.

Each step more idiotic than the previous.

 

Show 500,000 baht equivalent to stay(at least) 30 days? Moronic.

 

Special Tourist? Makes me want to vomit.

 

Game the system? No one is gaming the system. They are doing exactly what is allowed by Immigration. So perhaps you should accuse Immigration of 'gaming the system'. I'm sure that would welcome your hand delivered report of who, when and where.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[moe666]

In 2010 I applied for and recieved a 90 day non-o visa I had to show enough money in bank account to live in Thailand for 90 days. I think at the time I had 12,000 dollars in savungs. Requireing people to have enough money to live on during their stay is nothing new. Calm down boys, you are getting your nickers in a stitch

[OneMoreFarang]

22 minutes ago, overherebc said:

The very quiet beach place me and she are in at the moment would welcome 6 Kevs and 6 Tracys at the moment I'm sure.

But the place will be much nicer without them.

Maybe Kev can come and visit the beach with Nit, Noi and Naam.

[PEE TEE]

25 minutes ago, from the home of CC said:

exactly

They most likely make that in a couple of days but would be in their pockets not in the bank 

[Eindhoven]

1 minute ago, SupermarineS6B said:

Please go home....... 

 

Don't feed....

[Eindhoven]

1 minute ago, moe666 said:

In 2010 I applied for and recieved a 90 day non-o visa I had to show enough money in bank account to live in Thailand for 90 days. I think at the time I had 12,000 dollars in savungs. Requireing people to have enough money to live on during their stay is nothing new. Calm down boys, you are getting your nickers in a stitch

 

It's 'knickers' and 'twist'.

 

Did they ask to see US$12,000? I don't think so. Pointless post.

[from the home of CC]

3 minutes ago, SupermarineS6B said:

Please go home....... 

I already am????

[glegolo]

5 hours ago, Tropicalevo said:

Hmm. No mention re the Chinese embassies

Nothng on the embassy in Sweden either....

 

glegolo

[IsaanEng]

This will just destroy a whole sector of the struggling hotel sector, all those little places that have huts on the beach in the islands ,that are already being crushed by covid are now dead by stupidity. Not to mention the cheap hotels used by single travellers and back packers around places like Khaosan road. 

 

Can anyone name another country so reliant on the tourist industry that is so out of touch with reality.