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Home » Reader question » Reader question: International laws allowing Belgians and the Netherlands to return to Thailand?
Reader question: International laws allowing Belgians and the Netherlands to return to Thailand?
Dear readers,
What I wonder is the following: Both a number of Dutch people and Belgians own a condo or a house in Thailand and they may not be allowed to return to their property for months if they are not domiciled there, for example.
Can a country or a government just continue to ban that? Thai law is of course very different from European law, but there are international laws, don't they?
Who has experience with this?
Regards,
Guido (BE)
Short answer: there is no international law that gives you the right to enter a country on the basis of owning real estate in that country.
No, there are no international laws. They are tolerated, but they are simply canceled if they no longer suit you. Each country can decide for itself who can enter and under what conditions.
No, that's not true what you say there, Francois. International law does exist, laid down in treaties: https://libguides.library.uu.nl/c.php?g=202157&p=1331400
But the question is whether a country recognizes and ratifies the treaty in question. Thereafter, the content of that treaty is valid and must be acted upon. Whether that happens is another story.
Thank you for the correction. I summarized it a bit too simplistic, although in practice it comes down to that.
Even in your own country. Remember a few months ago in Belgium that the decision was made that people were not allowed to go to their second home on the coast.
Agreed, but the Belgian government quickly backtracked when some threatened to sue…
Dear Guido, you are making a mistake - there is no ban on returning to Thailand. Everyone can and may return, only yesterday, today and (the day after) tomorrow. There is also a chance that the entrance doors will not be opened until 2021 . Which means that the possibility to travel in has been restricted. In my opinion, almost most countries on our planet have taken the same decision. Belgium as one of the first, even with a domestic variant, It does not apply that this temporaryness takes too long for you. For one it is an abomination, for another irrelevant. But it is as it is. Nothing more nothing less. Patience is a virtue. Not unknown in Belgium.
Just as there is a chance that no tourist will enter Thailand for many years. Since this virus apparently cannot be beaten, many experts fear that we will have to live with it for many years. If it takes another few months, the damage will have been done anyway and tourism will certainly not return for decades.
Very sad thing for people with a family in countries outside Europe ...... Personally I think it is at least as bad as a war.
guido,
You should not confuse a right of possession with a right of residence!
Marc