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Maybe. I don't have any personal experience with trying that. The TM-30 isn't listed specifically as documentation showing you reside in Phuketl. It's evidence of a sort that when the receipt was given to you immigration believed that's where you lived. It would be enough for me, but I'm not manning the checkpoint at Tha Chatchai. ???? I'm easy, I would accept a Thai driver's license showing your address in Phuket (address is in Thai on the back of a Thai driver's license), or a pink ID card with Phuket address. I would even accept bill from a utility like CAT Internet or PEA electric bills. If you showed up with a blue or yellow house registration book then I'm pretty sure you would meet the residency requirement. Barring that, I would be guessing if something is accepted or not.

Sorry, this reminds me of the occasional person you run across in the US that is convinced that the US federal income tax is not constitutional and you don't have to pay it. The problem is that in the world the rest of live in there is a certain reality that you have to deal with. If a Thai person enters Thailand on a non-Thai passport then they are treated by immigration as a foreigner subject to the same requirements that other foreigners with the same passport have to meet. They can go to immigration with a Thai passport, a Thai ID card, a blue house registration book, and what not and because they entered the country of Thailand on a non-Thai passport they will be told that they have to abide by the rules established for people who enter on that foreign passport. Thai Immigration will sell them for 1,900 baht an extension of stay for being a returning Thai national that comes with a year's permission of stay along with the requirement to file 90-Day Reports. This is not speculation on my part but actual experience as in being at the immigration office with my Thai-American friend who came into Thailand on her US passport. If you're right, why in the world would the Thai immigration department have extensions of stay for being a Thai national for sale? Who would buy them? Don't misunderstand me, I'd love to live in an alternate world in which it was unconstitutional to collect US federal income taxes and Thais could enter Thailand on foreign passports and yet be treated exactly like Thai citizens by immigration, but I'm due back on the planet earth any moment now and that's not the way it is there.

If the concern was having an on onward ticket (item 2) then there are a number of ways around that, from renting a ticket (google rent airline ticket), purchase relatively inexpensive ticket to Kuala Lumpur or some such that you don't really intend to ever use, buy tickets such that you can change dates without penalty.

Assuming you mean your extension of stay you don't renew so much as apply for a new one. If that is the case, you will not lose any days as your new extension of stay will start from the day your old one expires.

No, because as said above, there is no address on a 90-Day Report.

She didn't leave the UK on her Thai passport. She left the UK on her UK passport. What passport she was "carrying" or "not carrying" has no impact on how she is recorded in the immigration records of the UK.

A recent report from Monday: Reports of actual people's experiences are useful, BUT I think it's better to understand what the rules are. If you meet those rules, whether or not you actually end up having to prove everything at the checkpoint, you can be reasonably sure of being successful. Just because they didn't check the person in front of you doesn't mean they won't check you. Meet the requirements and you should be OK. Depend on lax enforcement and one day you'll be unpleasantly surprised.

There is no address listed on a 90-Day Report receipt. There is an address on your current TM-30 receipt, however. I don't know whether this would be accepted. The only evidence I have seen specifically mentioned is a house registration book (tabian bahn), blue for Thai, yellow for foreigner. Can you leave Phuket, visit Phang Nga, and return to Phuket the same day without showing a negative covid test within 72 hours of entry? I wouldn't think so. Upon returning to Phuket how would you prove you were in Phang Nga for just a day? Also, my understanding is that everyone has to show vaccination proof, negative covid test within 72 hours of entry, and prove that they are in one of the allowed categories of people: people who live in or work in Phuket, returning Sandboxers, tourists (after September 8 ) if they can show previously booked and paid for accommodations in Phuket, ticketed international departures from Phuket Airport on the day of flight, and other exceptions.

I think that's being silly. My statement was that you must leave a country on the same passport you used to enter it. Hardly a controversial statement I would have thought. If a country doesn't choose to check the passport on exit (as is apparently the case in the UK) then it's is impossible to leave the country under a different passport because, in fact, you don't leave the country showing any passport for the simple reason that the country does not check them. ???? Someone replied that was wrong and then gave the example that they entered the UK with a UK passport and left on an Australian passport. If what you say is true, that the UK doesn't check passports on exit, how then could the person have "left the UK on an Australian passport" as they would have left without having their passport checked according to you. So arriving in the UK on a UK passport and leaving the UK on an Australian passport doesn't disprove my statement since there's no such thing (according to you) as leaving the UK on an Australian passport as nobody checks your passport on exit.

Thanks for that information. I was responding to someone who replied to my statement that you always leave the country on the same passport you used to enter it, with "not true." They said they entered the UK on their UK passport and "left the UK on their Australian passport." So, I guess the question would be how did they "leave the UK on their Australian passport" if the UK doesn't check on exit. Maybe they did this years ago when they did check. Still seems to me it would have caused a problem if they had checked.

I stated that you should always leave a country on the same passport you used to enter it. Someone responded, "not true", they entered the UK on their UK passport but left the UK on their Australian passport. That is what I was responding to. So the real question is how did this person "leave the UK on their Australian passport" if in fact the UK doesn't check people on exit? Maybe this person did this many years ago when the UK did check on people on exit. Nevertheless, my point still stands. You must leave a country on the passport that you used to enter it.

This is exactly my experience at Phuket Immigration with a Thai friend who entered on her US passport. She was told to apply for an extension of stay as a returning Thai national (1,900 for one year permission to stay). She was also told she would need to do 90-Day Reporting. There was no way for her to change from her US passport to her then renewed Thai passport except by leaving and re-entering the country.

Yes, people can enter Phuket domestically with a vaccination and negative covid test (as specified in the chart cited earlier) as long as they are from one of the following categories: - Phuket residents and those who regularly work in Phuket - Returning Sandboxers - Domestic Tourists (from September 8 ) - People with international flights leaving Phuket on the day of the flight - Other people as called out in the domestic entry chart above

Well, it seems like something has changed... https://www.thephuketnews.com/phuket-to-open-to-domestic-tourists-with-conditions-81251.php

If in March 2022 there is still a Certificate of Entry (CoE) required to return to Thailand I imagine it would be done at that time. In other words, you wouldn't receive the CoE if you didn't have covid insurance to cover your initial permission to stay (which for you would be a year). I imagine that gets checked at immigration in Thailand and you get stamped in with a permission to stay equal to your covid insurance coverage period or one year, whichever is shorter. I don't think we know that CoE will still be required in March 2022, but if it's not required I'm not sure we know what will replace it.

It seems to be a British term with the definition you say but it's not one I have heard before. Thanks for the explanation.

Not entirely sure what visa nationals are. But generally, isn't it the case that in Thailand one can have extensions of stay transferred from old to new passports, but not visas. If you have a current visa in an old expired passport then as long as you have a new passport you should be allowed to enter Thailand by showing both passports (old one containing the current visa) and new passport which is the only valid one and into which the entry stamp will be added.

Unless something has changed today, you only need to be vaccinated according the the graphic posted.

If you weren't caught out, you weren't caught out. ???? The proper way would have been leave Thailand on Australian passport enter UK on UK passport -> leave UK on UK passport enter Thailand on Australian passport It's never a good idea to leave a country with a passport you didn't use to enter the country. Have you been back to the UK since?

I think these rules are still in effect.

I have exactly the same thing after having arrived in Phuket for my TM-6 Departure Card. But all TM-6 Arrival and Departure cards have one important number on them. Found under the barcode consisting of two letters followed by five numbers, for example: AB12345. It is the record ID for your entry into Thailand. Every time you have entered Thailand is associated with a unique TM-6 number. All information recorded about you concerning this entry into Thailand is stored associated with this record ID number. I don't know how the other information on the card is used, or whether it is really used at all. I seem to remember a story of there being a warehouse full of TM-6 forms in storage, to what end I don't know (back when there were articles in the media about possibly doing away with the TM-6). This may also explain why it's not the end of the world if you lose your TM-6. I think they may be able to lookup your TM-6 number in the system based on your passport number and date of entry. People are sometimes given a new TM-6 with a different TM-6 number if they have lost their original one. The TM-6 number is used to file a 90-Day Report as well or to get an extension of stay. The TM-6 Departure Card is the only form that you get that comes with it's own unique ID number (that I know of).

Interesting. Thanks for investigating. Still no change for me at phuket.win or in terms of receiving an SMS or other notification.

Phuket. What you say about inconsistency is true among immigration offices. In this case I've just never understood what additional information was conveyed by stamping the TM-6 departure card in addition to the entry stamp in the passport. Same information in both places as far as I can see. But then I'm not an immigration officer.

I don't think the OP has to worry about an unstamped TM-6 Departure Card as long as he has an entry stamp in his passport with the correct permission to stay until date. My own TM-6 Departure Card is also unstamped and I have received two retirement extensions since then and it has never been mentioned. I actually used to find it strange that they stamped your departure card with the same permission to stay date that they stamped your passport -- seemed redundant to me.

Well, she definitely can't leave Thailand on her British passport. You can't switch passports in the same country, you have to exit on what you entered with. What is the turnaround time for renewing a Thai passport, maybe there's a fee for expedited service? I don't think there's generally a rule that you can't use your passport to leave a country with less than six months validity remaining. There may be rules to that effect that you can't enter a country with less than six months validity. But she will be using her British passport in SA which presumably doesn't have that problem. Then she can travel back to Thailand on her British passport but use her possibly expired Thai passport to enter Thailand.