Transcript of the above video:

What is this title? What are we talking about here? "Get off your phones and don't take bribes". Well the reason I decided to make this video is I was reading a recent article in the Thaiger, that is thethaiger.com, hats off to those folks; we love them over there. 

I made this video, I titled this video the way I did because of this article. The article is titled: Police visit Chon Buri Immigration, warn staff "don't take bribes". Quoting directly from the article: "Police have paid Chon Buri's Immigration Office a rather tense visit on Thursday to deliver a 9-point checklist to staff. The media reported that the list of demands was: "Get off your phones and don't take bribes", as ordered by the Lieutenant General leading the visit. The news comes as Thailand prepares for an influx of international tourists following the slightly less tedious Thailand Pass that was introduced May 1, Thailand's current digital gateway for anyone arriving from overseas." So basically, yeah we are looking at a situation where Thai Immigration is seeing that, hey things are about to ramp back up. We are about to get back to doing what we do. We are no longer going to be sitting around the office like the Maytag repairman so get off your phones and let's get to it. As to the rest of it, I am not really going to speak to that. Quite frankly, I kind of think the notion that Thai Immigration is just sitting around taking a lot of bribes is pretty silly; it hasn't been really my experience that that is really much of the case at all. Most of the cases we deal with they are pretty document intensive and what they want to see is the documentation. 

That being said, more the point of this, well I thought making the title the way I did was kind of humorous, more to the point is yeah, clearly the momentum is shifting here. Thai Immigration officials are getting serious in understanding there is going to be higher volumes of people coming through sooner rather than later and that calls for kind of a change in paradigm within Immigration from what we have been dealing with the last two years. So hopefully, this augers well for the notion that Thailand is going to get reopened back to what we are used to and definitely and definitely what we were used to before March of 2020.