Are there a special requirements for long term stays? Because here (Germany) there are a couple of travel insurances who don‘t have an age limit. It‘s more expensive for elderly, but possible. For tourists it‘s not a problem to get the insurance for the Thailand Pass.

To obtain a Thailand Travel Pass, one must provide a copy of the insurance policy that meets Thailand standards for Covid medical coverage to enter the country.

The coverage must last the duration of the stay. In the case of a retiree, that is for the duration of the annual visa.

We have thus far been unable to locate coverage for retirees over the age of 80.

Some more information here

https://www.tatnews.org/2022/04/thai...om-1-may-2022/

Especially those cannot meet vaccinated requirements:

Yes it is already on the Thailand Pass website. The registration under the new format would be open from the 29th of April. But I have a feeling that it would be overwhelmed by the increase in the number of applications.

I see. It‘s possible to get an insurance for a year, but only for stays up to 42-60 days each. I think, if it‘s possible to get the Thailand Pass with that document, but I‘m not sure. Maybe the Thailand Pass approver read the fine print when they see the age, but I don‘t think so. They will return to the automatic check of the documents, focusing on the vaccination documents.

You could take the risk of waisting a couple of bucks, check out if you can get that kind of travel insurance in the US/UK oder maybe also in Germany (online) and try to get a Thailand Pass with that.

Anyway, the Thailand Pass will be history after July 1, maybe after June 1.

Yes, but they don‘t need the manual confirmation by the hotel anymore. They will approve most of the TP automatically.

My flight is on May 1st. Really hoping those approvals come within 24 hours.

Do they do approvals over the weekend? I've seen some places saying business days only and others saying they work basically 24/7

He could leave and plan to return just before his annual renewal thus minimising the time period for insurance, but in practice even for those getting stamped in for almost a year, 30 days insurance is all that is being required.

Despite that the first insurer recommended on the Thailand Pass website has this in their summary:

https://cimg1.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...a459c81cd6.jpg


and the TGIA recommended insurance has this:

https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.fly...c8e0ea8166.jpg

https://covid19.tgia.org/

This is good news (getting rid of mandatory testing). Took a lot of weight of my shoulders :)
Let's hope things stay relatively stable and they don't have to make more restrictions.

Luckily I booked 2 weeks hotel stays literally day before the news broke out. Don't know if the prices will go up since it's not high season anymore though.

When you click through, you get this:

From age 76, they only allow renewals of existing policies.

We had different kind of TP requirements so far and that affected the time for approval. Many were approved automatically within a few minutes, some needed more than a week.

For sure they work over the weekend. If they approve manually, it seems like they work faster on workdays and during business hours.

You can also use your existing TP to enter Thailand. From May 1 you don‘t need the hotel confirmation and test package anymore. So you can cancel hotel and test package and still use your approved ‚old‘ Thailand Pass. Of course there is always the risk, that the staff at the check-in doesn‘t have the newest information. But Thailand‘s immigration will let you in with that ‚old‘ Thailand Pass.

That refers to when applying for a visa and you've said he is there on a visa so he will enter on that with a re-entry permit. No visa application necessary.

I've just been all the way throught to the payment page of the TGIA recommended one entering a date of birth of 1937 and been accepted. Cost was 11,000 THB.

He still has to have a Thailand Pass to enter with a visa. To obtain that, he needs the insurance.

That is because you are applying as a tourist without a visa. The rules are different for visa holders.

This is 100% wrong. He needs the 20K USD (soon to be 10K USD) insurance to apply for the Thai Pass and it's available up to age 99. The 400/40K THB is for applying for some Visa types but is totally irrelevant here.

When you apply for the Thai Pass, the authorisation process don't know or care whether you will enter with a long term visa, tourist visa, visa exemption or anything else. There is no difference in the TP requirements for these categories.

I went through the steps to apply for the insurance and, once it is declared that you are entering on a non-imm "O" visa, you are not eligible for the tourist insurance. The insurance that is offered is age limited.

Go to the insurance site referenced above and try it for yourself.

This is a big issue right now for elderly retirees and we have yet to find a solution.