Has travel insurance worked to qualify for entry?

[Carmine6]

Has travel insurance worked to qualify for entry? (I am aware of the issue that it might not cover quarantine without symptoms or with only minimal symptoms.)

 

The reason I ask is I just tried the AXA website for the Thailand insurance.  Last year I received a policy just fine.  This year, it says I'm not qualified for the policy.  The only thing different is I'm a year older but nowhere close to the limt of 75.  Also I take meds for blood pressure and cholseterol, but not even high doses.  I'm pretty sure they asked the medical question last year as well, and I'm taking the same.  

 

I do have regular health insurance, but getting a document from them specifying a certain minimum dollar amount of coverage for covid isn't going to happen.

[ubonjoe]

Others have used travel it insurance to get a COE or now the Thailand Pass.

You could use the insurance that is offered on this site. https://covid19.tgia.org/

[Carmine6]

1 minute ago, ubonjoe said:

Others have used travel it insurance to get a COE or now the Thailand Pass.

You could use the insurance that is offered on this site. https://covid19.tgia.org/

Thanks.  I was using a link from a commercial AQ website and they directed to an AXA website, which is what I thought I used last year. But now I realize I had looked at AXA to consider changing visas.

 

I looked for a link at the DC embassy website and LA Consulate and couldn't find one this year.  Those websites have been so edited on the fly that they're confusing now.

[ubonjoe]

20 minutes ago, Carmine6 said:

I looked for a link at the DC embassy website and LA Consulate and couldn't find one this year. 

The link I provided is the same one showed on embassy and consulate websites.

[Canadian Snowbird]

I'm 67 and the high cost or inability to get travel insurance is a big reason why I am still in Canada right now. Some insurance firms are not interested in selling to new clients over 65; others are offering insurance at very high cost in the hope you are desperate enough to take them up on it. Add to that the high cost versus poor schedules with long layovers for flights, and it's looking more and more like I won't be getting any golfing in in Thailand this winter. 

[Tuvoc]

20 hours ago, Carmine6 said:

I do have regular health insurance, but getting a document from them specifying a certain minimum dollar amount of coverage for covid isn't going to happen.

Cigna provided such a letter for me, to accompany the normal certificate, others may do as well

 

 

Edited November 30, 2021 by Tuvoc

[ubonjoe]

1 hour ago, Canadian Snowbird said:

I'm 67 and the high cost or inability to get travel insurance is a big reason why I am still in Canada right now. Some insurance firms are not interested in selling to new clients over 65; others are offering insurance at very high cost in the hope you are desperate enough to take them up on it. Add to that the high cost versus poor schedules with long layovers for flights, and it's looking more and more like I won't be getting any golfing in in Thailand this winter. 

What visa will you suing to enter Thailand? Or are you entering visa exempt?

The medical/covid 19 insurance is only required for your length of stay.

Check this site open the site for the insurance. https://covid19.tgia.org/

[tomazbodner]

4 minutes ago, ubonjoe said:

What visa will you suing to enter Thailand? Or are you entering visa exempt?

The medical/covid 19 insurance is only required for your length of stay.

Check this site open the site for the insurance. https://covid19.tgia.org/

What is considered length of stay if a Thai is returning home, or a foreigner on permanent residence?

[ubonjoe]

8 minutes ago, tomazbodner said:

What is considered length of stay if a Thai is returning home, or a foreigner on permanent residence?

A Thai does not have to have the insurance.

A person with permanent residency only needs 30 days. Or none if they are covered under Thai social security.

[SunsetT]

I used travel travel insurance for a COE from the UK for a 90 day O retirement visa last year and re-entry permit this year.

 

[tomazbodner]

54 minutes ago, ubonjoe said:

A Thai does not have to have the insurance.

A person with permanent residency only needs 30 days. Or none if they are covered under Thai social security.

Wonder how you prove you're covered by Social Security. In the old days I had a card for the hospital... probably still have it somewhere, that lasted a year. A couple of years they stopped issuing them and Thais were told to just use their ID Cards. Obviously, for anyone non-Thai they didn't have any idea what to do.

 

Admittedly, I never went into Police General Hospital that was apparently my SSO assigned hospital, with exception of health test for permanent residence. That bunch of cameras pointing at every part of the body in the toilet when giving urine exam cannot be forgotten...

[Carmine6]

1 hour ago, SunsetT said:

I used travel travel insurance for a COE from the UK for a 90 day O retirement visa last year and re-entry permit this year.

 

That's good to know.  If I had planned ahead a bit more, I might try that route.  The only concern I have is coverage for mandated quarantine without symptoms or minimal symptoms, since I don't think that is "reasonable and customary" care.  However, some travel policies this year include "charges for hospital confinement" in costs they will reimburse.  But it takes a long time to find wording that seems to work.

[ubonjoe]

49 minutes ago, tomazbodner said:

Wonder how you prove you're covered by Social Security. In the old days I had a card for the hospital... probably still have it somewhere, that lasted a year. A couple of years they stopped issuing them and Thais were told to just use their ID Cards. Obviously, for anyone non-Thai they didn't have any idea what to do.

There have been discussions about the SSO card. Apparently they are being issued again and you can apply online for it.

If you needed something quickly they could do a letter to  prove it.

[Sheryl]

58 minutes ago, tomazbodner said:

Wonder how you prove you're covered by Social Security.....

 

Admittedly, I never went into Police General Hospital that was apparently my SSO assigned hospital, with exception of health test for permanent residence. That bunch of cameras pointing at every part of the body in the toilet when giving urine exam cannot be forgotten...

Copy of card, or letter from SS, will be accepted

 

You are actuyally lucky to have Police Hospi as your nominated SS hospital as I believe they no longer accept new SS patients, neither do the other large Bkk hosps and what is left for people in Bkk to choose from is not very good.

 

Quality if care at Police Hosp is solid. Though like any govt hosp, lots of inconveniences.

 

They probably have an after hours clinic whereby you can directly access a senior doctor, most govt hospitals these days do

 

The cameras may have been for people taking drug tests! (Is that part of the PR process?)

[tomazbodner]

1 hour ago, Sheryl said:

The cameras may have been for people taking drug tests! (Is that part of the PR process?)

Yes, drug check is part of the process.

 

Thank you for information about the Police hospital. As said, other than for PR health check, I never stepped foot in there, and usually visit Phyathai hospital. Obviously, not using social security.

[Sheryl]

15 minutes ago, tomazbodner said:

Yes, drug check is part of the process.

 

Thank you for information about the Police hospital. As said, other than for PR health check, I never stepped foot in there, and usually visit Phyathai hospital. Obviously, not using social security.

 

Any place doing drug testing will have some sort of precautions in place to avoid people substituting urine samples that are not their own.

 

I agree, cameras are intrusive, but there does have to be something and being patted down and escorted into the bathroom is also not pleasant.

 

I doubt you would find the cameras in all the bathrooms, likely just those for drug testing.

[SunsetT]

5 hours ago, Carmine6 said:

That's good to know.  If I had planned ahead a bit more, I might try that route.  The only concern I have is coverage for mandated quarantine without symptoms or minimal symptoms, since I don't think that is "reasonable and customary" care.  However, some travel policies this year include "charges for hospital confinement" in costs they will reimburse.  But it takes a long time to find wording that seems to work.

This year I used Emirates inclusive insurance which does cover asymptomatic quarantine, but sadly that ceases to be offered from tomorrow. But I see now that they do still provide Covid19 cover up to 31 days:   

Edited November 30, 2021 by SunsetT

[Canadian Snowbird]

22 hours ago, ubonjoe said:

What visa will you suing to enter Thailand? Or are you entering visa exempt?

The medical/covid 19 insurance is only required for your length of stay.

Check this site open the site for the insurance. https://covid19.tgia.org/

I would plan on using the special tourist visa so that I would be allowed at least up to 90 days. Finding a decent flight schedule from Canada is also problematic, however.

[ubonjoe]

31 minutes ago, Canadian Snowbird said:

I would plan on using the special tourist visa so that I would be allowed at least up to 90 days. Finding a decent flight schedule from Canada is also problematic, however.

A standard single entry tourist visa would allows you a 60 day stay and then a 30 day extension of it would allow a total stay of 90 days.

Have you looked at the requirements for a STV yet?

Requirements are here in this file from the Vancouver consulate website.

 http://www.thaiconsulatevancouver.ca/consulate/documents/announcement/2020/visa/stv.pdf

[Canadian Snowbird]

2 minutes ago, ubonjoe said:

A standard single entry tourist visa would allows you a 60 day stay and then a 30 day extension of it would allow a total stay of 90 days.

Have you looked at the requirements for a STV yet?

Requirements are here in this file from the Vancouver consulate website.

 http://www.thaiconsulatevancouver.ca/consulate/documents/announcement/2020/visa/stv.pdf

I've seen the requirements. The note that there is no guarantee of extension for the single entry tourist visa does not help my comfort level.

[WHansen]

12 hours ago, Canadian Snowbird said:

I've seen the requirements. The note that there is no guarantee of extension for the single entry tourist visa does not help my comfort level.

Hi, i have been using the SETV 60+30 day extension for all my trips and never had an issue. My flights are always 88-90 days apart, never been questioned about the timeframe.

I think it's accepted/realised that most 60 day SETV's will be extended by 30 days.