@Vin ********

No. I always had to send in the proof of Health Insurance with the Evisa applcation. Why would a Health Insurance company write a letter without an active policy? Also, it is not a letter but an OA Visa Health Insurance Certificate wtih the approriate stamps and signautures from the Health Insurance executives.

@Vin ********

I have applied for an OA Visa in 2017, 2022 and 2024. In 2017 health insuarnce was not required. For 22 and 24 the LA Consulate required health insurance documents that proved the policy was valid and was in efffect as part of the applciation on Evisa. The Evsia also required flight reservation fo Thailand. This was the Los Angeles Thai Consulate so if you do not appy with them then your applicatiion experience could be different.

@Vin ********

1) You do not know when the OA Visa will be issued. . 2) The Health Insurance policy must be vaild when you apply for the OA Vias on the Evisa website. 3) The fasteest I have gotten the OA approved was 14 days.

@Vin ********

Catch 22. The OA visa will not approved unless health insurance documents are submitted with the EVisa application. I know this because I got one approved by the Los Angeles Consulate last year. Upon entering Thailand the End of Stay stamp date will conicide with the end date of the health insurance.

For the Medical Certificate in the past I had the doctor sign it and put the center's stamp on it. Then I scanned it and uploaded into the Evisa website.

This is the same as MDAC(Malaysia Digital Arrival Card). The MDAC was difficult to obtain. The MDAC could only be submitted 2 days before arrival and I never got an email. Let's see how the TDAC actually works. My guess is some will be denied boarding as the TDAC will have some issues in the beginning.

i just did this. On my latest OA Visa the "must be used by date is the 9th". Flew back into CNX airport on the 7th and presented my new OA Visa Health insurance and got stamped in until the 6th of next year. After the new stamp I got the re-entry permit.

@Ellie ******

Ok. I stand corrected.

Korean passport holders have been granted 90 Days visa exempt entries for a long time. Hence many Koreans come and stay in Thaialnd for months at a time without the need for a visa.

@Tod ********

For the LA Consulate on an EVisa Application I used my Debit Card. My Visa credit card was declined many times. Last year K-bank was processing payments and because of the security protocols implemented by the bank that issued the credit card the visa payment transaction kept on being declined. My thoughts are that Thai Banks have different security protocols for credit card transactions than foreign banks. Even some Elite Visa applicants have complained about the same thing.