A new kind of long stay visa
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I was NOT questioning your own insurance policy but there are exemption for others.
OP
My country's airlines are giving ticketed passengers covid medical insurance.
The problem remains that there aren't many places open for us to go with or even without, and we still have a 14 day quarantine once we return home.
Not many people with enough job security and burning desire to fly somewhere that is open to us, only to return to 14 days of quarantine. Further, the covid insurance is pretty nice perq but doesn't cure you if you get sick. It'll help pay for your treatment but that could be pretty small compensation if you've become deathly ill in a foreign country.
It's sad. I hope everyone can just hang on. Let this be the one year.
Follow the guidance people, please. Wear your masks, wsh your hands, do the distancing, stay home. Let it be the one year.
If everyone's out fighting the guidance or the government, this thing is going to get worse before it gets better.
Please, if you can't do it for yourself, do it for your other loved ones.
The problem remains that there aren't many places open for us to go with or even without, and we still have a 14 day quarantine once we return home.
Not many people with enough job security and burning desire to fly somewhere that is open to us, only to return to 14 days of quarantine. Further, the covid insurance is pretty nice perq but doesn't cure you if you get sick. It'll help pay for your treatment but that could be pretty small compensation if you've become deathly ill in a foreign country.
It's sad. I hope everyone can just hang on. Let this be the one year.
Follow the guidance people, please. Wear your masks, wsh your hands, do the distancing, stay home. Let it be the one year.
If everyone's out fighting the guidance or the government, this thing is going to get worse before it gets better.
Please, if you can't do it for yourself, do it for your other loved ones.
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As an aside, I had World Nomads (Trip Mate) for a couple of international trips, I used their best protection....bottom line, they pleaded COVID and covered nothing. Never again.
New developments: The Center for COVID-19 Situation Administration (CCSA) has approved six categories of foreigners who may enter Thailand: (1) foreign athletes who will participate in the Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn's Cup Tour of Thailand 2020 on 6-16 October 2020, (2) pilots and cabin crew of Thai Airways on repatriation flights, (3) foreigners who have non-immigrant visas, especially businesspersons who do not have a work permit (they must present bank statements for the six previous months), (4) long-stay tourists who have a special tourist visa, (5) APEC cardholders from low-risk countries, for example, New Zealand, Australia, and Singapore, and (6) non-Thai nationals who wish to stay in Thailand for 60 days (they can extend their period for an extra 30 days by presenting six previous months of bank statements, equivalent to at least 500,000 baht). Anyone who wishes to enter Thailand should kindly contact the Thai embassy in their country for more details.
If I'm reading this right, getting a regular single-entry tourist visa (about $45 in my country, plus some paperwork) is sufficient to enter for 60 days (although quarantine will eat up a quarter of that), with an option to extend that to 90 days if you demonstrate sufficient funds. Sounds quite attractive - I've written to the local Thai embassy; waiting to hear back from them if it's actually true.
If I'm reading this right, getting a regular single-entry tourist visa (about $45 in my country, plus some paperwork) is sufficient to enter for 60 days (although quarantine will eat up a quarter of that), with an option to extend that to 90 days if you demonstrate sufficient funds. Sounds quite attractive - I've written to the local Thai embassy; waiting to hear back from them if it's actually true.
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COVID-19 Guide for Travelers to and in Thailand | ThaiEmbassy.com
OP
Is it still the same? I thought they were changing it up almost every day.
What have you learned please?
Right now STV appears to be a non-starter (there was a story about a flight of Chinese tourists scheduled to arrive to Thailand via this process, and then another story claiming that those tourists never existed and that not a single person has actually applied for STV), but it seems like select Thai embassies are taking applications for regular 60-days tourist visas, albeit with an annoying requirement to show a bank balance of at least 500,000 baht or equivalent in local currency for the past six months, per person applying for the visa. This is in addition to medical insurance requirement, two weeks in quarantine and prepaid accommodations - and you have to have all those arranged, in addition to flight tickets, before applying for the visa. This is limited to a small number of countries - right now I'm only aware of Thai embassies in Helsinki and Canberra accepting these applications.
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