Artikel tagged “visa”

  • Mandatory health insurance for retirement visa holders starts July

    Mandatory health insurance for retirement visa holders starts July

    Expats aged 50+ living in Thailand on a long-stay visa will have to buy health insurance from July onwards.

  • Mandatory health insurance for long-stay foreigners

    Mandatory health insurance for long-stay foreigners

    Health insurance will be mandatory for expats aged 50+ years look towards a long-term stay in Thailand. The insurance policy must offer up to 40,000 baht coverage for outpatient treatment and up to 400,000 baht for inpatient treatment. The Health Service Support Department director-general Nattawuth Prasert-siripong says, “The Cabinet has already approved the new rule. This is one of the measures the government has introduced to ease the financial burden placed on state hospitals by foreigners, many of whom have not paid for treatment.” According to Nattawuth, the new rule applies to both new applicants for the non-immigrant visa (O-A), which offers a stay of up to one year, and those wishing to renew their visa

  • Visa run to Penang – a personal experience

    This story was one person’s experience of the visa process in Penang.