@Bart *************

visa free travel won’t change this is merely an on line arrival card you fill out before you travel it will eventually eliminate the need for standing in line at immig for many arrivals , and the end of annoying stamps filling up passports love traveling to countries where this is in place like SIn, Malaysia and Australia Thailand is joining the digital age and not before time

@Von *****

ignorance is bliss

It’s progress

That’s the plan as I understand it

@Jo *********

I don’t need a visa for Sin or Malaysia but I do ETA and whistle through the border, in SIN you don’t even see an immigration officer and you passport doesn’t get cluttered with stamps

@Jo *********

it’s not a visa is a pre travel authorization, and currently only proposed for countries on the Visa Exempt list it will speed up immig process and reduce queues lots of countries do it already

Singapore do it, and it makes arrivals seamless you don’t even see an immig officer, prints photo and away, ETA takes 5 mins to complete on line - if it reduces queue‘s at immig it will be great don’t understand what the fuss is about

@Henrik ****

and yet they will happily let you open one using an agent, this is not a country contaminated by logic

@Von *****

this is not being driven by Thai government it’s OECD and the yanks that are trying to close bolt holes for tax evasion and unless Thailand decides to go rogue (which is of course possible) then it’s going to happen as thailand seeks to become part of the global financial community (and grow up)

Thailand has deployed CRS which is common reporting standards so full visibility of all financial transactions - what they do with it is another matter, taxing remittances will be easy, but many will ignore until it’s linked to resident visa - worldwide income whole new ball game which is why it’s only “proposed” I guess - tax evasion gets harder as more countries fall in line…..which is the whole idea