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As the title of this video suggests, we are discussing, well but we're discussing Thai Medical Insurance in the context of O-A Retirement Visas, and the possibility of denial of entry at a Thai Immigration checkpoint. Why did I decide to make this? Well, it recently came to my attention that there was a comment made on one of our shorts that we put out on this channel where someone actually said "hey, even if you have medical insurance" - and I'll get into that in a minute - "associated with an O-A Retirement Visa, it's still possible for Thai Immigration to deny you entry to the Kingdom. Now what are we talking about here? 

To deeply drill into this first off understand, O-A Retirement Visas require medical insurance in order to have them issued and you actually have to show your medical insurance at Thai Immigration checkpoints when you come through Immigration if you leave, to make sure that your medical insurance is running concurrently with your Visa itself. So even if your Visa is valid and Medical Insurance has expired, you can see yourself denied entry because of that. I've done videos on that in the past, but as somebody else pointed out, again a commenter on the recent short we put up regarding this topic, it is also possible for Immigration to deny you entry even if you have Medical Insurance? How is that possible? Well, it's always possible. Thai Immigration has discretion - specifically at border checkpoints - to deny people entry. Quite honestly, it's their raison d'être, it's their reason for existing, that's exactly what Immigration is designed to do. It is designed to act as a checkpoint security if you will for undesirable aliens coming into the Kingdom, and they are vested with a great deal of discretion in enforcing Thai Immigration Law. Notably they are vested with the discretion to deny entry. They can just say "look, sorry, we're denying entry" and they can cite it under a variety of different very broad in terms of scope, citations under the Immigration Act of 1979 as I have noted in prior videos - public health and safety, National Security - all of these are very broad in terms of scope of their ability and their discretion to deny entry and they can go ahead and do that. So that's something to bear in mind; I think that comment was sort of worth fleshing out. 

Now understand, there is a difference between the O-A Retirement Visa which does require insurance and the O Retirement Visa which does not require insurance, but in either case, when one is coming or going from the Kingdom, one is always subject to the discretion of the Immigration Officer at a border checkpoint regarding whether or not one can be admitted to Thailand notwithstanding the fact they may have an issued Non-Immigrant Visa for the Kingdom of Thailand.