How to make simple retirement application complicated using an agent. 🤷

@Tony **********

there's an entry without visa: exempt. That's what exempt means.

And there's entry with a visa you apply and pay for.

Not really confusing.

@Tony **********

and easily confused with words like "arrival" in Thailand and "within 3 days" of arriving. Or "exempt of visa". As if the word exempt means something bizarre and new.

@Benny *******

there's been NO announcement of it changing. It's just gossip.

Did people get in this sort of confusion and stress when they filled it in few years ago on the plane, on a bit of paper? It tells you it's for arriving. It tells you within 3 days before landing/arriving.

I'm as old as the hills, not good with online forms but just logged in, put my info, submitted, saved/printed it. 8 mins.

@Ross *******

it's just a form with your arrival information. There is no cost. Few years ago it was a paper filled in on plane before arriving, now it's digital.

@Ronald ****

it's not really a form that required approval. It's your declaration of personal info for them to retain.

@Andrew *******

you can't read! It's visa exempt. Look up what exempt means, it's an English word. You can n argue all you want but it doesn't alter the fact it means NO visa. . none, zilch, zero!

@Andrew *******

you did not get a visa. You got a permission to stay for 60 days with no visa: exempt.

@Andrew *******

it's exempt of visa. OR you bought a visa from embassy, on line, before you arrived. Surely you know if you applied for a visa and paid for it? It's not something you'd forget. If you didn't apply, they give you an entry FREE of any visa. It's called "visa exempt". The word exempt equates to not needing a visa. So you do not have a visa but can stay "exempt" for 60 days.