If you get your Non-O Family by coming in from another country (Lao, VN, CM), then you have to come-and-go.

Truth in that.

@Jamie ****************

Yes, it does...and to your favor, as it allows you to stay put without travel requirements.

Without open & easy access between borders a lot of people are in limbo. Example: If I have a Non-O family and have to make a border trip each 90 days, then I go to VN, have a two-week quarantine there, return to Thailand and go through another two-week quarantine -- and have to buy a new insurance policy, be in a queue to get back in, and pay all the costs. Meanwhile the wife & children are here and the business languishes. Maybe in two months, things free up and doing that becomes normal.

@Steve ******

Yes...this is the help for now. Hopefully those who have to make a border bump will be able to do easily later, because it's not good now.

There are genuine visa matters with people of long-term residency that this helps overcome. It is a serious and welcome near-term solution, especially for Non-O holders.

Good luck.

Non-O gotten crossing the Lao or Vietnam border gives you 90 days in country at a time with multiple-entry for one year. Not he best, but you can convert to regular non-O when you get 400K in the bank. Cal The Thai embassy in VN for instructions, they are very helpful.

I have doubts also...but I can not leave now (or at least come back, as all borders are closed) and Immigration acknowledged that & said they were dealing with this from a policy perspective...because, If I do not leave, then what? They will have to make some accommodation. And, even on the 'phone, this person could not say what outcome to expect...

I was on the telly for a long time with Immigration yesterday. I have a Non-O / One Year / Multiple Re-Entry. Requires I leave the country every 90 days. Obviously can not leave the country now. He said (and to be confirmed with a trip next week to Chiang Wattana) that if I go now, I will get a one-year stamp, no 90-day departure required. We shall see and I'll report back.