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Thanks to Thai Immigration & Ministry of Foreign Affairs for COVID-19 Response

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As the title of this video suggests, we are discussing the COVID-19 situation. I am a big believer in credit where credit is due and I thought that this video was necessary for lack of a better term. This is what I think of as an editorial video. I am not specifically talking about the law specifically or what is going on specifically.  This is more a video that was just designed more or less to say thanks. 

COVID-19 has posed unprecedented issues in the Immigration apparatus here in Thailand. Issues that I don't think that it was really designed to handle in an institutional sense. I don't think anyone foresaw anything like this. Let's be clear. It is the same with America. The Immigration apparatus really wasn’t expecting a situation where we have to have this whole shut down and the system would kind of just be operating on a kind of a skeleton crew and proceeding forward. The same with Thai Immigration. Nobody foresaw something like this I don't think. It has been a difficult set of circumstances to deal with and I did see people previously who were pretty upset in dealing with Thai Immigration and I just would like to say that "yeah I think some of those concerns were definitely very justified in the past” but I think once Thai Immigration became aware of the ramifications of this, they moved as fast as they could to bring a new regime online to deal with folks who had been stranded in Thailand. In our dealings with them and we have cordial professional relations with them, we don't have any really close intimate relation with anybody down at Thai Immigration, but they have acted in a very professional and efficient manner. They are simply trying to get things done, get people into their proper Immigration category, get them sorted as best they can, and move things on down the road. 

I think the same can be said for Ministry of Foreign Affairs. I should have brought the article I was reading earlier today where there was a Thai gentleman that had gotten back from a foreign country and he was thanking Ministry of Foreign Affairs for their assistance in getting him back after he been kind of in a quarantine for a prolonged period in the country he was coming from. 

Again these are unprecedented circumstances. Everyone is handling them as best they can. It is something of an ad hoc approach but I think that the actions thus far and the policies promulgated, especially with respect to the Visa Amnesty and now the second wave of the Visa Amnesty where we are getting another three months tacked onto the initial month of Amnesty, it really shows that everybody concerned is trying to not only deal with this as best they can but deal with it in sort of the compassionate, cool-headed method.