Independent Work & Holiday visa (subclass 462) cap alerts
Thailand Work and Holiday visa cap alerts
Australia limits how many first Work and Holiday (subclass 462) visas may be granted to Thai passport holders in each program year. While the published status is paused, new applications from Thailand are not available.
A paused cap may return to open during the same program year. There is no announced date, and no waiting list — the published status simply changes.
VisaCapAlert checks Thailand's published cap status every minute and emails you as soon as we detect that change.
- We check Thailand's published cap status every minute
- Get an email alert when we detect that Thailand has changed
- Add an optional WhatsApp notification after payment
- Know sooner, without repeatedly checking the official status page yourself
Independent alert service. No visa or migration advice.
One-time ฿105, or ฿47/mo.
Choose how you pay for Thailand monitoring
Monthly payment option
Total until 30 June 2027:
฿423 if you keep it active until then.
- Spread the cost
- 1,440 checks per day
- Email and optional WhatsApp notifications
- Thailand monitoring
- Active until 30 June
- Cancel anytime
One-time payment: October 2026
Save ฿318
- One payment
- 1,440 checks per day
- Email and optional WhatsApp notifications
- Thailand monitoring
- Active until 30 June
- Referral Rewards — up to 100% back
Cap statuses reset on 1 July, when you can register again for the new period.
How the Thailand alert works
Create your Thailand alert
Enter your email address and confirm it with the code we send you. Thailand is already selected as the country to monitor.
Choose how you pay
Pick the one-time payment or the monthly payment option. Both buy exactly the same Premium monitoring and notifications — only the payment structure differs.
Get notified and act promptly
VisaCapAlert checks Thailand's published cap status every minute — up to 1,440 checks a day. When the status changes we email you, and after payment you can add and verify a phone number for an optional WhatsApp notification.
We monitor the official Home Affairs country-cap status page. That government page can be delayed by up to 48 hours, so alerts reflect when a status change is published — not necessarily when the underlying decision was made.
You remain responsible for checking the official requirements, confirming your own eligibility, and lodging your application through the official Australian Government process.
Create your Thailand alert
VisaCapAlert.com is an independent notification service and is not affiliated with the Australian Government or the Department of Home Affairs. We do not provide migration advice, submit visa applications, or guarantee visa availability, eligibility, or approval.
Thailand cap status
- Country
- Thailand
- Visa
- First Work and Holiday visa — subclass 462
- Annual grant cap
- 2,000
- Alert coverage
- Until 30 June 2027 AEST
- This table last updated
- 5 Oct, 8:00 pm AEST
This panel updates twice a day. Premium monitoring checks Thailand's status every minute and alerts you straight away.
Status information comes from the official Department of Home Affairs country-cap status page. That government page can take up to 48 hours to reflect a change, so our alerts tell you when a status change is published — not necessarily when the underlying decision was made. We have no privileged access to government information about Thailand. View the official Home Affairs cap-status page.
Has Thailand’s cap changed before? See every paused, reopened and closed indicator VisaCapAlert has recorded for Thailand — Thailand cap status history.
Understanding Thailand's Work and Holiday visa cap
The annual cap governs first Work and Holiday subclass 462 visa grants to Thai passport holders. Second and third Work and Holiday visas are not counted against that first-visa cap in the same way.
A PAUSED status means new applications from Thai passport holders are temporarily unavailable, whether to manage application volumes or because the annual cap is being approached.
A paused cap may return to OPEN in the same program year. A CLOSED cap will not reopen before caps reset on 1 July.
VisaCapAlert monitors the published status only. We do not control it and have no early sight of it.
Why create a Thailand cap alert?
Thailand runs three to four hours behind eastern Australia, so changes published during the Australian afternoon show up late in your own day. Checking a government page at that hour, every day, indefinitely, is not a realistic plan.
VisaCapAlert does the checking — Thailand's published status, every minute — and emails you when we detect a change.
An alert cannot hold a place, submit an application, or make a grant more likely. It gives you prompt notice, which is the part you can actually act on.
- VisaCapAlert does not reserve or hold a visa place.
- VisaCapAlert does not submit your application.
- VisaCapAlert does not assess your eligibility.
- VisaCapAlert does not provide migration advice.
- VisaCapAlert does not guarantee a visa outcome.
About VisaCapAlert
VisaCapAlert was created in Australia by a Brazilian couple with backgrounds in software engineering and business administration.
The service monitors published Work and Holiday visa cap status changes and notifies users when their selected country's status changes.
VisaCapAlert is an independent Australian service. We do not provide migration advice or submit visa applications.
VisaCapAlert.com is operated by WONDRATECH PTY LTD under the registered business name Status Alert Technologies. Australian Business Number: 51 633 863 966.
Thailand cap alerts — frequently asked questions
Thailand has an annual limit on the number of first Work and Holiday (subclass 462) visas Australia may grant to Thai passport holders. The current published figure is shown in the cap status panel on this page, taken directly from the official Department of Home Affairs country-cap page so it stays correct if the official figure changes.
PAUSED means new applications from Thai passport holders are temporarily unavailable. A paused cap may return to OPEN later in the same program year, though that is not guaranteed. We monitor the published status and notify you when we detect that it has changed.
We check Thailand's published cap status every minute and email your confirmed address as soon as we detect that the status has changed. After payment you can also add and verify a phone number for an optional WhatsApp message. What we cannot do is tell you in advance whether or when Thailand will reopen — that is decided by the official process and we learn of it when it is published.
A CLOSED status means the cap will not reopen during the current program year. If Thailand changes to CLOSED while your alert is active, we notify you of that status change too — knowing where you stand is the point of the alert. Cap statuses reset for the new program year on 1 July.
That is a real possibility and we will not pretend otherwise: a paused cap may stay paused, or close. Your alert stays active for the monitoring period you paid for and notifies you if and when the published status changes. Because monitoring begins the moment you pay, the payment is not refundable on the basis that the status never changed — if you are unsure, that is worth weighing before you buy.
Yes. The Thailand alert is priced in Thai baht and charged by card. The amount shown on the page is exactly what you are charged; if your account is held in another currency, your card provider handles the conversion.
This page and the signup flow are available in Thai — the language switcher near the top moves between them. The confirmation and alert emails are still English for now, so the translated part is everything up to and including payment.
Each alert notifies one confirmed email address for one country, so a shared alert would mean sharing an inbox. It is cleaner for each of you to create your own — and if you refer them, both of you may qualify under our referral rewards.
Premium monitoring for this country is ฿105 as a single one-time payment, or ฿47 each month. Both cover the same service and run until 30 June 2027 AEST, and the amount is confirmed before you pay.
You confirm your email with a code and complete payment — a one-time ฿105, or the monthly option at ฿47 a month — and your alert is active straight away. After payment you can also add a phone number to be notified by WhatsApp. We then watch your selected country's cap and notify you when its published status changes.
Only in how you pay — the service is identical. One-time is a single ฿105 payment with no recurring charges — ฿318 off the ฿423 full price. Monthly is ฿47/mo while the alert is active, ending automatically on 30 June 2027 AEST.
Both options include every-minute checks, email alerts and optional WhatsApp notifications, and both stay active until 30 June 2027 AEST.
You can cancel the monthly option anytime at visacapalert.com/cancel-subscription/; no future payments are processed after cancellation, months already charged aren't refunded, and monitoring stops at that point. If a monthly payment fails, you have 7 days to update your card before the alert is cancelled.
On 1 July AEST, visa cap statuses reset, so you'll need to register again to keep tracking a country in the new cap period.
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Create your Thailand cap alert
VisaCapAlert checks Thailand's published first Work and Holiday visa cap status every minute and notifies you when we detect a change.
Pay ฿105 once, or pay ฿47 a month until 30 June 2027 AEST. Cancel anytime.
Create my Thailand alertVisaCapAlert.com is an independent notification service and is not affiliated with the Australian Government or the Department of Home Affairs. We do not provide migration advice, submit visa applications, or guarantee visa availability, eligibility, or approval.