Will Thailand allow border crossing for expats amidst current visa restrictions?

Yeah, from the info i got fron my friend working at immigration, unless u have a education, business visa, residency, or family visa ur not getting back in

I find some of the comments here lack compassion or empathy from those who are fortunate enough that there visa status is sorted making disparaging comments. Not all on the Amnesty are tourists taking a free ride. Those tourists will have homes and jobs they desperately need to get back too but unable to do so because the country's airports have been more or less in lockdown since March. I know of a few. There are migrant workers unable to back home because the borders are closed with no work in Thailand. There are people like me that after 7 years of living here legally in order to get a retirement visa need to border bounce that under normal circumstances would be no problem but unable to do so and as of next week are on the Amnesty and desperately needed it to be extended until the flights and borders are back to normal and causing untold stress.

If they suddenly end the Amnesty with less than three weeks notice it will be a huge PR disaster for this country unless what some believe if the governments agenda is to want to clear out Westerners once and for all I can promise you even your so called safe visas at some point they will come after you making extensions of stay almost impossible. Even Thailand Elite have stopped taking applications so what does that say about how safe your visas are.

They should fuck all Thais out of Oz if they do same to Ozzie’s to go home.

The USA does. And their economy does not rely on tourism.

Non o. Retirement. Est b i ever spendt

Really funny rhat such a crazy American show how stupid he really is.

Time to return to home ,good old days are over ,junta don't want long stayer farangs anymore

I think this amnesty was meant for people on vacation and caught by the sudden closure of airspace and borders. The Thai government has been very generous to give 4 months of visa extension FOR FREE. FYI an extension of stay is chargeable, people who have a legitimate reason to stay in the Kingdom need to pay THB 1900 for it. Almost all nations had repatriation flights organized so whoever is still here without a valid reason, sorry to say but I dont think it is because of cancelled flights. I think its time to go home for everyone who doesn't belong here, don't you think??

I think a lot of people will have to face reality. Thai people cant just go abs visit another country let alone stay indefinitely

Might go to Sicily instead.

Good Luck to everyone on there visas but i do Agree as well with sum of the comments and also Agree Thailand just cant keep giveing pepole to stay in country for ever but then on the other hand it is Thailand who has done this and put flights on hold and makeing this sitution as well i my self is looking to go back and not problem for my self to Return as i have family in Thailand but even that is made diffucult to go through this prosses as well and also alot of money to do it to its just not great sitution for pepole who wants to stay there also pepole who wants to travel back and see there familys will cost thousands. just sum info as well only flights i have seen flying to Thailand from uk is Ethiad and thats with 3 stops-KLM-Air France no flights till september that has been same with them for weeks that info.so i think for enter Thailand i think it might or hope it will be bit Relaxed in september .but good Luck to everyone crazy times ahead💪💪🙏🙏🙏👍👍

any successful purchases of this insurance?

TiT, land of smiles 👌🏻

You fool you wont bounce in and out. Grow up. Go home or fix yourself a visa

There are Visa options available to purchase, a bit expensive but if you wanna stay just buy a visa

ihave been trying to book a flight to the UK this afternoon so far i can nit find a flight befor the end of the mouth

What about people who had flights canceled and can’t leave? Not surprised by the way Immigration in Thailand does business anyways. They don’t follow the law. They deny people with Tourist visas with lies saying “you are only allowed 2 tourist visas per year” or some BS like that. So I think the Thai economy suffered so much from loss of revenue that they somehow need to make their money back by charging overstay fees with whoever decides to stay in Thailand after the Amnesty goes away.

Kinda worried about not getting a visa in time and having to leave on July 31. Say it ain't so.

Yesterday they said most likely will be extended, today not likely, tomorrow likely

Probably an agent started the story to make some more money ... haha

Sorry to hear that you are caught up Joe. Are you truly out of options?

what airline please can you tell me

Just had another flight for August 3 canceled so rang the agent and was told that scheduled flights from Thailand won't commence until September due to government direction. So I find it hard to believe that the amnesty won't be extended

My Son came to Singapore with three month visa and there was no way they were extending even though his mother is PR and I just happen to be working here at moment so have employment pass.

No letters from UK goverment they wont issue them as there are flights and according to UK goverment its safe to enter

And so it begins.

There is 2 weeks left on amnesty, how about you people who are on amnesty just take a breath, step away from the keyboard and wait for the announcement that will surely come as far as what you people need to do :/

you're spinning your wheels right now with the I heard, I read, someone told me bull shit..

I think it will another month but there will be countries that will extend flight bans. What happens if people have nowhere to go (Example India) ? If people can’t extend but have no way back to their country it will be tough

Like i've said many times , wait until an official announcement.

Rumours and hear say will cause panic and a mad rush to immigration offices and airports.

These articles are purely written to gain views and start a commotion with these articles being shared among expats, tourists etc...

The government will decide what is going to happen. Not a lower ranking col. In the immigration bureu.

Wait until an official announcement.

I think extensions but with 90 day reporting coming back. This way they can keep track of the people. No reason not to have 90 day reports. Also maybe forced download of tracking app.

This is a good time for the goverment to sort out undesirable's as well . Dead wood as they use to call them 🤔🤔

With three weeks to go. That airport will be packed and many on overstay unable to get flights

Malaysia's conditional Movement Control Order (MCO) is currently in effect until 31 AUG 2020. (This conditional MCO is supposed to be an easing into a post-Covid norm.)

I read recently that Malaysia & Singapore are discussing the re-opening of shared immigration checkpoints to allow bilateral movement of employees.

Malaysia announced ages ago closed till August 31st at least

don't do anything until there's an official announcement. you're wasting time and stress.

They need us,they should make it easier for us to stay.

They really want all the foreigners .

I heard that if you had the correct paperwork you will be able to get a new non b at the border without leaving Thai territory so other requirements won't apply

So ridiculous....

This could all change in the next week as they really aren't sure what they going to do. In this case we can't blame them as at this time I don't think anyone knows what is going to happen.

I think the best thing they could do would be to extend the amnesty on one month extensions for 1900 baht or a 3 month extension for say 5000 baht. To avoid the queues at the immigration they could say come in on the day of the month when your original visa finished.

They've already adjusted the rules for most foreigners with valid visas to extend within the country. I'm sure they will do the same for the exceptional cases that have been missed. However, it's likely to become difficult to live long term in Thailand disguised as a tourist, and anyone doing so should probably book a flight home asap, and prepare to stay there for a while.

Official announcement is needed - rumours abound all the time and are often wrong until the last minute.......BUT I think the old 1 day bounce is not gonna happy for a while. You may be really lucky, but Thailand want Visa applications and Covid tests etc in that country and stopped VoA and via free entry, so a lot has to change to go back to the old in/out routine. Much better they let people pay to extend their Visa, given as many may find it less than easy to actually find flights home

I think we need to wait and see what the official announcements are. Certainly they understand the boarder issues. I am hoping they will announce some kind of internal options for people still here (get 90day stamp for a valid ME visa without leaving Thailand, purchase a further extension within Thailand, covert to non b if you have a job etc). That seems more likely to me then reopenong boarders with other countries for bounces or other visa runs since that would take 2 governments to agree to in a short timeframe.

Surely they must allow people some time to make arrangement. It is normally 7 days - they should allow an extra 30 days to be applied for at 1900 THB. I just cannot see how they are going to allow a border bounce though - visa exempt looks like postponed and where would you get a tourist visa?

Joe I think you are screwed if you cannot extend they way you are in the country right now. It won’t even be a matter of if the other land borders open. You hit the nail on the head with the biggest issue, I seriously don’t think they are going to accept tourists any time soon. Of course, I don’t know anything and am guessing but if I had to bet my money is on not opening up to anything other than the categories recently announced for a while.

Thanks for sharing that. I'd guess they want to give a bit of a push now, get some people to move out of fun the country and then maybe give some leeway to those left.

Cambodia is also under visa restrictions

Don’t start panicking until it’s official it’s what I have learnt here in Thailand .....