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As the title of this video suggests, we are discussing whether or not the “COVID Visa” system if you want to call it that, is really coming to an end. I have done a number of videos on this over almost the past two years. I thought it was going to end at multiple times in the past. It didn't ultimately end but it was constricted more and more as time went on and at this point it is really a rather narrow subset of folks that are still using it or even eligible for it. As we will get into here in a minute it's going to get even narrower and then it looks like it is going to finally kind of extinguish. 

With respect to this “COVID Visa”, at the beginning we were calling this a Visa Amnesty and then over time it just kind of got the moniker of "COVID Visa" so that is what we are dealing with now. A recent announcement, this is from Thai Immigration and I found this via Richard Barrows' Twitter, so hats off to him and quoting directly: "The Immigration Bureau has approved an extension of time for Visa extensions for COVID-19 reasons until 25th March 2022, under the following conditions: 

1. Persons entering the Kingdom with VISA ON ARRIVAL cannot extend their visa for this reason.

2. Persons entering the Kingdom with a Tourist Visa can extend a TOURIST VISA for an additional 30 days and then they can submit a reason to stay for COVID-19"; that is key.

Quoting further: 

"3. Persons entering the Kingdom as a temporary person, NON-IMMIGRANT VISA cannot be extended for COVID-19." So Non-Immigrant Visas cannot be extended for COVID-19.

"In the case of tourists already in the country, at the end of the 60-day period for permission to stay in the Kingdom, this time they must leave the country," (this is from Immigration), "this time they must leave the country or if there is a necessity to stay, they are able to submit an application to stay in accordance with the laws, regulations and rules set forth." 

So it looks like we are looking at the real deal here. It looks like we are seeing an end to the COVID Visa which kind of lines up with what we are seeing in terms of "Test and Go" reopening and just an overall what appears to me to be a paradigm shift toward the notion that this is becoming endemic and therefore a lot of these written restrictions and in this case, this benefit that was created for the exigent needs of those who got trapped in Thailand initially, this stuff is coming to an end.