What are the latest updates on the Thai visa process in light of COVID-19 restrictions?

@Peter ******

no just the lefties think that 😂

@Shane *********

Maybe 10,000 . Thailand had 39,000,000 tourists in 2019.

@Shane *********

only for countries without local cases covid for the moment

@Brendan *******

👌

@Frank-Steven **********

I send the request ti my friend from my company letter that why telling you

@Andy ********

send us the link can you thanks

@Ivan ***********

I think we may have a very different definition of tourism. For me tourists are those, that would be coming to spending their vacation for a two to three weeks trip. Nobody would come for a "tourist" trip like that while needing to spend 15 nights in strict quarantine and jump through that many hoops. The STV was designed for long term visitors coming between 3 and 9 month. It would be a badly needed vehicle for those groups of people that have been neglected thus far. It should be provided on the very same conditions / terms like the other group allowed back in, i.e. from all countries, as long as tests and quarantine are adhered to. I even think that mere fact that they named this new scheme with the word tourist in it, is part of the problem now, that leads to discourse within politics. If they were to look at it as what it is, a visa for maybe 3-5 thousand people that fell through the grid so far, then there should not be any issue. A) Because quarantine resources are NOT an issue with these numbers, and B) none of the north of 100k people returned so far brought any infection into the country after they went through quarantine. So I remain with my initial assessment: They are being plain stupid, or at least letting irrational fear dictate over facts (which is also called stupid in the wider sense I guess).

@Ivan ***********

Again, there is no reason to make this an either / or decision. And keeping long time couples apart like this is simply plain cruel. But what to expect from a government like this.

@Spencer ******

Yes

@Steve ******

you got that right...

"FAR WEST" out of the Asian part, across the vast OCEAN. 😂

@Frank-Steven **********

They can never quarantine everybody who wants to come, so they have priorities. I don't think it is stupid, but of course you can debate on the priorities.