herfiehandbag Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 Convenience in obtaining visas is being considered - by a General! Which tells you all... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soi3eddie Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 2 hours ago, Peter Denis said: When you apply for the 1-year extension based on your original Non Imm O-A Visa and you do this for a different reason than RETIREMENT (e.g. marriage, Thai dependent children, ...) the health-insurance requirement is NOT applicable. So if he is in that case there is no need for him to convert to a Non Imm O Visa, a switch to a Non Imm O Visa would only be relevant if he can only apply for his Non Imm O-A based extension for reason of retirement (as that requires a mandatory Thai IO-approved health-insurance policy). >> I compiled a comprehensive guideline document outlining all options/details on how to do that, just PM me if you want to receive a copy. Thanks. Yes, no insurance requirement is why he converted to marriage extension. Next year he will convert extension to straight non-o retirement with no insurance. Why not stay on marriage? Because the renewal is easier on non-o retirement (no visits etc.). 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
webfact Posted December 9, 2020 Author Share Posted December 9, 2020 Related topic: Special Tourist Visa: Thailand opens to the world - But will the tourists really come? Full story: https://forum.thaivisa.com/topic/1195955-special-tourist-visa-thailand-opens-to-the-world-but-will-the-tourists-really-come/ 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Denis Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 10 minutes ago, soi3eddie said: Thanks. Yes, no insurance requirement is why he converted to marriage extension. Next year he will convert extension to straight non-o retirement with no insurance. Why not stay on marriage? Because the renewal is easier on non-o retirement (no visits etc.). Yes, that's correct. But unless he can make use of the Embassy issued income letter method, the financial requirements are way lower when applying for reason of marriage. When using the funds-in-bank method opting for the retirement reason means you permanently park +400K on your Thai bank-account compared with the marriage extension. So unless 400K THB is peanuts for you, the additional hassle by opting for a marriage extension is well worth it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soi3eddie Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 1 minute ago, Peter Denis said: Yes, that's correct. But unless he can make use of the Embassy issued income letter method, the financial requirements are way lower when applying for reason of marriage. When using the funds-in-bank method opting for the retirement reason means you permanently park +400K on your Thai bank-account compared with the marriage extension. So unless 400K THB is peanuts for you, the additional hassle by opting for a marriage extension is well worth it. Didn't mention the financials as parking 800K permanently is no problem. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ICELANDMAN Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 On 12/8/2020 at 11:53 AM, jomtienisgood said: How long ago was it abolished in Eu or USA ???????? You did not study at school I see, ma if your are Thai of course not. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DogNo1 Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 Quarantine should be required for everyone, even those vaccinated. 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trip Hop Posted December 9, 2020 Share Posted December 9, 2020 6 hours ago, DogNo1 said: Quarantine should be required for everyone, even those vaccinated. The problem with quarantine for tourists is that it is currently too long to be convenient or accepted by your average Joe with a lot of people with any previous knowledge of Thailand being dubious as to whether they will be ripped off by the hospitals and ASQ? In a land where dual pricing and ripping tourists off appears to be an accepted national sport, I can't blame them TBH? Therefore Thailand either has to vaccinate everyone or up their testing game including making it free to everyone, so that outbreaks can be contained and isolated immediately. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thailand Forever Posted December 10, 2020 Share Posted December 10, 2020 If the vaccines work and Covid is declared over or even semi-over, I will be coming to Thailand/SE Asia for my usual 3 month holiday. I spend about $75US per day so for the 60 days in Thailand I will be spending there $4500. I am just an average guy, not high end by any means. But neither am I a cheap charlie or one of them old retirees who linger over beers at the two bit bars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JP canada Posted December 16, 2020 Share Posted December 16, 2020 Maybe an idea to open up should include the recently announced Holland Model. 1 test before your flight. 1 test on arrival. If no positive ... good to go ... no quarantine. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Peter Denis Posted December 16, 2020 Popular Post Share Posted December 16, 2020 23 minutes ago, JP canada said: Maybe an idea to open up should include the recently announced Holland Model. 1 test before your flight. 1 test on arrival. If no positive ... good to go ... no quarantine. Yes, that Holland Model makes more sense than the current quarantaine model. It would however require that the test on arrival would NOT be the current PCR-test which takes approx 2 days before results are available (so that would mean quarantaine till results are available). So that implies that a covid-19 AntiGen test needs to be used, of which the results are available in 5 minutes, and which is actually MORE reliable and far cheaper than the PCR-test. When Thai authorities would switch to that method, and combine with a 10-day track-and-trace regime for those entering, the doors would finally be open again for regular tourism. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Artisi Posted December 16, 2020 Share Posted December 16, 2020 On 12/7/2020 at 2:28 PM, MasterBaker said: ... but still force us to report every 90 days like we are all criminals here Well you are in the eyes of many...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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