It should happen - if acting based on facts. And the facts are: From those thousands who entered Phuket Samdbox, only 0.2% got tested positive later - that is only 1 in 500. So inviting good quality fully vaccinated people into the country is safe. And even if very few of them catch it, they very likely catch it mildly. So time to move forward with the plan and open. All you no-sayers … the current problems are local mismanagement, not imported issues.

Have you met some of the village heads? They can barely read. They certainly don’t know about national quarantine procedures and like to make things up on the go. Don’t just take their word for it. Show proof you did quarantine already and negative test result (ideally in Thai) and let them know nicely to get off your neck.

90 day reporting is only applicable for visa or extensions that would allow one to stay longer than 90 days from the day issued. Since it is in the nature of 60-day !!! covid extensions, this cannot apply here. Unfortunately not all of those bright minds at immigration get this. Had such a 90 day required to reporting slip once on a covid extension from Chiang Mai. The Krabi office insisted then - when I tried to do an intermediate reporting later - that this is never needed since I am on a 60 day extension time and again. I got tired of this incompetence game. In the future I will only do 90 day reporting if on a stamp or extension equal or longer than 90 days. Time for this bunch to get a grip on the basics already - or maybe consider working somewhere else. Wasting my time.

End of May when I flew out. Everything closed a wrapped up. Only one duty free shop and one restaurant open. That was it. For water and the like ... only vending machines.

Ownership of a Thai company does not in itself lead to either visa or work permit. If it were that simple - many would just incorporate something.

Just got a written statement from the BOI: „We, Thailand Board of Investment, have not worked on the proposal on freelancer anymore. This issue has been changed to be taken care by the other agency instead. The government has set up task force to develop new type of visa and is having a new initiative for new types of visa which will be suitable for long term residents, and a visa for remote worker or digital nomad : Work-From-Thailand Professional (unofficial name) will be one of the significant parts of this initiative. The project is still in process.“

Or starting at the relevant part:

Another member shared a very recent video here before. No clue why he or someone else removed it. Be that as it may, in the following video, a senior officer at the BOI confirmed that a new SMART visa related to this is indeed in the making to be ready "in months rather than years". It seems the smart people there have understood, while still trying to make the junta share their economic reasoning:

@Michael *******

I fear you are right on all accounts. Either they don't care or are not competent enough, I assume. Sad.

@Michael *******

The original article seems to be equally „recent“, though. Shame that the press never seems to follow up on things dismissed or tabled by this government. 0