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So there has been a lot of talk about the fact that Indian nationals have now been, up until roughly the past couple of weeks and until the end of this month roughly, are able to come to Thailand and get 60 days Visa-free just on arrival; they travel in, use their passport like many Western countries have been able to do in the past, and are automatically admitted to Thailand on 60-day status. They have rolled this back. A, they have rolled back the 60-day Visa-exempt down to 30 days; it ends at the end of this month. I think it fully comes into effect June 20th. Meanwhile, with regard to Indians, they have not only reduced from 60 days downward, they are no longer able to enter Visa free at all; they go back to a visa-on-arrival system. 

Now there has been a lot of discussion on this - negative/positive - and I felt like this video is useful to provide some clarification as to what is actually happening here. And one thing is I have really noticed this in the social media space in the past year, really in earnest, where frankly, a lot of these people that are on YouTube and TikTok and Instagram, various other places, especially the new people in Thailand, you just frankly don't know what you are talking about a lot of times. And one of the things, I have seen this sort of spun as, "oh Indians are radically sort of having their ability to remain in Thailand truncated". Well yes, but up until 18 months ago, they got two weeks visa-on-arrival anyway; that was how it was. The last Government, which at the end of it I called it the Rump Coalition Government - they were the ones that sort of rolled all this out - during that time they rolled out a lot of other Immigration initiatives that in my mind may not have had Thailand's best interest at heart, and to my mind, also, especially in retrospect, were not really well thought through and I've gone through that in a lot of other videos. But this is another example where Thailand for years had visa-on-arrival. You could get on a plane and come to Thailand and get your visa once you arrive here - it's only for two weeks, it's not extendable - that's what we have gone back to. So there has been this sort of 18-month interruption period if you will where it has been possible to get 60 days on arrival; now it reverts back. 

Now I understand, there are Indian nationals who are probably going to take issue with this, but again, as we have seen a number of issues where at least the policy emanating from Immigration is that, "look, a lot of people are using these exemption stamps to come to Thailand and operate illegally", I think there is some concern that this may be disproportionately occurring within the Indian community and that is the reason for the rollback. But it is important to note, this is not some arbitrary rollback. This is just a reversion to what existed before the prior government’s policies took effect. That's it. That is all that is happening here. So it's not some radical departure from what Indian nationals have been able to rely upon going back years and years. It's, they tried something, they did it for about 18 months, it's now being reversed. For various reasons policy makers don't think it's the right or appropriate policy moving forward, so that is what is going on there. 

I just wanted to make this video, I am not making this positive/negative, whatever, I am simply saying I have noticed it has been framed as if this is like a major roll back and this is sort of apropos of nothing. No, this is how the system was prior to the prior Government changing policies, and now they are being changed back.