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Home » Reader question » Reader question: CoE application “Sandbox Phuket” how long did the pre-approval take?
Dear readers,
Has anyone already submitted a CoE application for “Sandbox Phuket”? If so, how long did it take for pre-approval?
I did it myself 2 days ago and got no response yet.
I am leaving around 22-07-2021.
Regards,
Jackie
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for the sandbox you need a sha+ hotel from the hotel you must get a SHABA certificate that must go to the embassy you must also have and pay in advance 3 times a pcr test. only after that you get the CoE
Have fun... just a little while and they'll decide what color socks or sandals you can wear.
I have been in Thailand since 1976, married Buddhist but have only been able to speak to my wife via Skype for over 15 months.
I wonder how long the regime will keep up this nonsense?
Here too people get enough of it… given the many demonstrations.
Robert, we can shake hands. In all reasonableness, all those restrictions are slowly going too far for me. I have already booked for November, but if all those strict rules and restrictions are still in force and there are no relaxations (e.g. from 15 to 7 days of quarantine) then I will also skip this year and my wife and I will have to be patient. to have.
Fortunately, my wife will receive her 2nd AZ shot in September (was October first) and we notice that the vaccination program in Bangkok is going reasonably smoothly. At least also with colleagues and acquaintances of my wife. So who knows….?????
Idem. Last year I went back to the Netherlands in mid-April and have not been to Thailand since that time, while I have spent the winter there every winter for 12 – 7 months and also have a permanent relationship there. But all that paper mess and the risk that something goes wrong with it and you lose the ticket money or even more …
Dear Robert and Haki,
If you had "wanted", there has been the possibility since November 2020 to get a visa to go to your wives.
So complaining that you can only communicate via Skype is, in my opinion, superfluous.
Don't Skype for a while, but consult the site of Thai Embassy The Hague, or have the visa application taken care of by a visa agency, and you'll be back in Thailand in about a month.
And my experience is that immigration is very flexible with extensions.
Welcome to Thailand
Dear Pear!
Apparently you're pretty slack (i.e. you have enough money to spend on an expensive hotel (where you don't even "get aired" like in prison), PCR tests ad THB 2.800, extra insurance (against which I So now I have started the procedure with my compulsory insurer) etc. I only have an AOW pension plus a few hundred euros/month private pension, of which I would rather support my Thai father-in-law (poor rice farmer in the Isan) than waste money on expensive hotel and unnecessary tests while I must have done a test in NL before departure despite the fact that I have already been fully vaccinated (Pfizer).
You now pretend that we (Robert, Adriaan and I) don't have enough to go to our partners. If you often read TB, you will have come across my name before, from which you can already conclude that I really don't sit still, also for other TB people! Please think a bit before responding.
That's right, I was in Taiwan at the end of last year and went to the Netherlands via Thailand. I was at the Thai consulate in Taipei in the morning with my passport, ASQ booking, covid insurance and marriage document. The next morning I had a Non-imm O visa, COE and confirmation that I could book a flight with Thai airways. Just to the hospital for a covid test and two days later I was in Bangkok…
Dear Jr
You have to read what Jacky asks: “If so, how long did it take for the pre-approval?”
Jacky must be familiar with the information you provide, otherwise he wouldn't have started the pre-approval.
I think more people have this question, so please answer from people who have experience with the duration of the pre-approval application. There are officially 3 working days for this, but in practice this does not always work.
jackie,
according to what I found on the internet the pre-approval takes 3 working days, and then another 3 working days for the final approval.
I had already applied for a COE in March and these terms were approximately correct.
greetings,
Marc
just made a small calculation.... You must have yourself tested for Covid-19 before departure (€?)
then on arrival in Phuket 1 x and the following 2 weeks again 3 x
total 2800 Baht per test = 11.200 Bath. Squeezing unnecessary money out of your pocket.
Then calculate your Hotel costs. And your visa costs in the Netherlands + the extra insurance…
Ooms asks € 300 for an extra health insurance. I barely counted on approx
€ 3.000 euros and then I am not with my wife in Ubon Ratchathani.
So you are sentenced to stay on the Torremolinos of Thailand for 2/3 weeks
ridiculous.
She is upset, as am I... And as the minister of tourism said at the airport last year while handing out the face masks... no face mask then you are a dirty farang... thousands of people have complained about this. She doesn't care…. is about control and MONEY
pcr test 2800 baht each
I understood that the Dutch are not eligible for a sandbox CoE because NL is a covid unsafe country in the eyes of Thailand. Or has that changed now?
Dear Lou,
This has changed on July 1.
Yes, that has now changed.
Changed. The Netherlands is on the list of 66 countries that can use the Sandbox.
All the commotion was really unnecessary. It is better to wait for the final rules. So no problem.
Dear Jackie,
Did you receive a confirmation email from the Embassy with a number?
Otherwise you can wait for a pre-approval until St. J…..
Success!
Yes I have.
So no one has applied in this forum?