Thai Immigration | What Are You Thinking?

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  • เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 ก.ค. 2024
  • To Thai Immigration department.
    I have been living in Thailand almost 19 years on the same visa. I have to do the same requirements as a first time visa extender in Thailand. The difficulty imposed over the last year has made retirement in Thailand the opposite of what almost anybody, Farang or Thai, wants as a retirement life.
    As retirees get older we want simplicity of life and economical living. The current recently imposed immigration regulations are way more difficult than most other SE Asian countries no longer fit or are what retirees want in a place they call their retirement home. Now retirees are required to bring almost the same money they could stay home and live off of. Thailand is fast becoming an unfriendly place to retire to. Is that what you intended with these regulations?
    Retirees love Thailand,. It's people, it's climate and it's generosity for allowing us as guests in your country is why so many wanted to live here in the past. But now they feel our hosts no longer want us here and so many are moving on to other countries opening their arms to us and our money. Is that what Thai immigration wants? If so why not just make a public announcement saying this and most retirees will find places to retire that want and appreciate their presence and the money they add to the families and economy of Thailand.
    Most of us retirees still love Thailand and hope that you reconsider the practice of the tracking of us like common criminals, mandating medical insurance policies, that are either not affordable on a retirement pension or unobtainable due to advanced age or existing medical conditions, and also the inconvenience of meeting the financial requirements now that income affidavits are no longer an option for many countries citizens.
    And instead please look for a way
    1. To substantiate retirement income abroad without the need to have strict, non-negotiable monthly deposits coming into Thailand. But keeping an option for a fixed amount on deposit to comply.
    2. Have hospitals require a guaranteed way to obtain payment for services like a credit card or cash deposit before being admitted for treatment and do away with the OA insurance requirement.
    3. Keep the long standing TM28 permanent change of address requirement and the 90 day reporting as the ONLY obligations of retirees living in the Kingdom and leave any other obligation of notification of foreigners to others that already are required to do so.
    Thank you for taking the time to listen and to consider how your "guests" feel they are being treated living full time in the Kingdom. And thank you for allowing me to live in your beautiful country.

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