FYI, I live in Bangkok and just extended my marriage visa last month, but did not get a home visit from the police.

@Hugh *******

Lots of foreigners have opened accounts with Bangkok Bank. I have one that I got on a tourist visa. If one branch tells you no, you just go to another branch until someone tells you yes. It's totally possible.

@Steve ********

I get that. I just felt the need to point this out.

The real issue here is that this visa center surely has an IO giving them legal, valid stamps. No company would survive if all their stamps were fake because Immigration would figure this out pretty fast. The problem is that there's a corrupt IO on the inside...that's the real scandal here.

I had this problem last week, too. They told me the planes weren't flying from Thailand to USA. No word on when this will change, either. so frustrating.

Where is this from? It's dated June 2. Is there anything more recent? I cannot send to the US or receive from Spain, but I have received mail from Sweden, Italy, Germany, and the UK without problems.

The government is actively talking about this, but it could be months. They're saying tourists will eventually be allowed in, but restricted to certain areas. If you can get a retirement visa in your home country before coming, that will help your cause. I wouldn't expect anything before September/October, though.

Call your embassy.

This is what worries me: "Even for those tourists allowed to enter Thailand, they will face restrictions on where they can travel and other health safety requirements such as social distancing.

The PM suggested that it will be possible to close off the areas tourists are allowed into if there is any indication of a Covid 19 outbreak or threat to the country’s hard-won gains against the disease.

General Prayut emphasised that this will not be tourism as we knew it before or what he termed ‘liberalised tourism’.

‘Tourists will not be able to roam at will but to go only to places that are opened to them and have disease control capabilities. This is the guideline for the reception of foreign tourists, I think it is safe and better than liberalised tourism,’ the prime minister said.

This new conservative type of Thai tourism will involve limits in the number of visits allowed into the country and flight access."

To me, that says "goodbye nightlife!"