Tror inte reglerna ändras som de nu är skrivna utan om alla papper är som de skall (och det har väl alla
) då blir det nog inga problem
i Chiang-mai så vill dom ändra visum reglerna för X-pats , åtminstone för JAPAN
http://www.chiangmai-mail.com/452/news.shtml#hd8
så då kanske vi åker med på ett hörn
Chiang Mai wants to promote “Long stay tourism”
Pushing for a 3 year visa
The Chiang Mai Chamber of Commerce is working to pressure the Thai government in increasing the length of time for a retirement extension and allowing 90 day reporting to be done online to ease the process for elderly visitors, especially Japanese who make up a large portion of retired foreigners living in Chiang Mai.
Wipanee Intapan
Long Stay Tourists are those people who either come to stay during the winter months in their home country, those who come for health care, those ages 50 and up who are retired and students who come to study. Chiang Mai has a large number of these people who come to live here, if only temporarily and many of them are Japanese, according to the forum held at the Chiang Mai Grandview Hotel on May 16, 2014.
The Chiang Mai Chamber of Commerce (CMCC) has been working to make visa issues easier for those people who wish to stay longer in Chiang Mai and set up the forum with the Upper Northern Provincial Cluster 1 including Chiang Mai, Lamphun, Lampang and Mae Hong Son hold “Chiang Mai Long Stay Forum 2014”. Chokdee Amornwat, Chiang Mai Permanent Secretary presided over the opening ceremony with Chalermchart Nakarungkul, President of CMCC and Montree Piyakul, the Director of Chiang Mai Provincial Office of Tourism & Sports. The forum “Northern Long Stay Business in the Future” was joined by Dr. Narong Nimsakul, President of
Thailand-Japan Friendship, Wisut Buachum, the head of the TAT Chiang Mai Office and Mr. Noritoshi Urano, owner of Chiang Mai’s Japanese-language Vieng Magazine.
According to information from the National Institute of Population and Social Security Research (IPSS), Japan in 2005, Japan has the highest ratio of elderly in the world. The country has more than 25 million people over the age of 65, fully 20% of the population. Many of these aging Japanese are looking overseas for retirement and Chiang Mai has become popular with older Japanese people for retirement due to the climate, social activities and health care. Currently there are more than 3,000 Japanese living in Chiang Mai and the group hopes to see that reach 10,000 by 2020, this would increase Chiang Mai’s revenue by 3 billion baht.
However, the forum pointed out that for many older retired people, especially Japanese, the 1 year retirement visa is quite limiting. Malaysia currently offers a ten year visa. The forum called on the Thai government to make the retirement extension valid for 3 years to build confidence for Japanese wishing to retire to
Thailand.
The forum also called on the government to amend the 90 day report requirement, this law requires that all foreigners who stay more than 90 days in
Thailand must report to their local Immigration bureau, however there are not enough officers who can service the people coming to report and most of them do not speak Japanese. Additionally, the Immigration Office is overworked handling migrant laborers. The forum called on the government to allocate budget to provide a separate office for migrant workers or allow for the 90 day report to be made via the internet.
Members of the forum believe that
Thailand can attract many more long stay tourists if these problems are solved. The first goal of the forum is make Chiang Mai be the first destination of long stay city in ASIA (Top of Mind), long stay tourists are predicted to generate more than 10 billion baht per year in revenue for Chiang Mai in the future.
