I don't think it's a scam just targeted marketing. If you do have a need for a medical visa you can get your treating doctor to provide you with the relevant paperwork and take it to Immigration yourself. Or get a friend to take it in for you if you are too incapacitated. No need to use an agent if you legitimately have a reason to use this visa to stay here. Getting a medical visa under false pretence will cost you big money in agents fees and puts you at significant risk legally

@Yujin ************

People on student visa/ education visas are not allowed into Thailand yet. Even if you buy an air ticket you will not be able to enter the country. Also at this point in time those being allowed in need to choose and pay for their quarantine hotel upfront before heading to Thailand

@Kevin ********

are the UK considering scrapping the 14 day home quarantine requirement altogether or introducing compulsory quarantine in it's place? I ask as I have a friend planning on returning to London next month

@Noel **********

If you are an Australian resident or citizen and actually want to go home there are flights regularly leaving Bangkok to different destinations within Australia. Register with the Australian embassy and they will regularly update you with the details of such flights. Yes you will have to do hotel quarantine for two weeks on arrival and if you are able to show proof of a permanent address in another state I believe that you can apply for an exemption to cross the border. Not sure if you would have to complete a second quarantine on arrival in your home state though

@Daniel ***********

Australian residents and citizens have been able to enter Australia all through the lockdown. There are less flights and you may have to take a domestic flight within Australia to get to your final destination. But Australia has only closed the border to foreigners not to it's own people

@Jeremy ********

I suspect so too. Many airlines don't have flights listed to and from Australia before then

@Durrant *******

we were told months ago in Western Australia that there would be no international travel until the end of 2020

@David ***********

I don't believe there have been any families going on holidays from Australia since late March. The travel ban has been in place since Australia locked down. There have been people who were stranded in countries all around the world who have been coming back to Australia, initially self quarantining before it was made mandatory to quarantine in supervised hotel quarantine

@John ********

it is not clear what will happen to people who have allowed their long stay visas to lapse rather than doing an extension. There is much speculation. But it is possible that such people will have to return to their country of origin, visit a neighbouring country for a new visa. This is why people whose long stay visas are still valid and can extend, are being advised to do so, unless they were planning to leave at the end of July anyway

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Did my 90 day report at Chiang Mai Immigration yesterday. Took a total of 10 minutes. There was one person before me and one after me. Very quiet, but very well organised, in a separate building with open air spaced seating out the back of the main building . I was out of there long before all the people waiting in cars for the drive through service