zhangxifu

RIP Ubon Joe. Thanks for the meaningful advice.

Yes, what is the present situation at Sadao regarding the same day return?

Hi!

What are the steps for 30 days extension of stay these days in Bangkok? Appointment booking, tm30 needed? Location Laksi IT-mall?

What about in Hat Yai? Same? Doable?

I have to ask here as the internet seems broken with so many conflicting and incomplete advice. I haven't been to Thailand for years and the last time (stayed for about ten years), I was always on NON-IMM visas and just did border runs if got bored. Now I'm going for a 39 day holiday and wish to keep the hours doing the extension minimal. I was planning for a border run to Sadao but prefer the resort on the Thai side and will not stay a night in Malaysia so will probably just have to take care of the extension in BKK. Any advice? Thanks!

Thanks to OP for sharing the experience! Good that you explained the family aspect and the problem got solved easily. That confirms their recent behaviour. Immigration targets longtime stays on tourist visas. After you go official with your relationship to your future wife and register the marriage there won't be any more problems for you to enter Thailand with the Non-O visas and you can stay as long as you like, with your family of course. Congrats!

1 hour ago, AAArdvark said:

I just did a topic like this yesterday.  I had one question that has gone unanswered that I will ask again here.

Once you fill it in and submit it, how do you know if was accepted?  When I did it, the form just went blank and I wasn't given any indication at all.

You can go to Search TM30, search by the date within seven day window, anything longer won´t work. Take a screen shot and print it. That´s the only receipt available.

The check-out date can be left blank. Depends on your plans I guess.

And some say thais are not skilled drivers. I disagree.

He wasn’t allowed to choose where he wanted to fly. Had to use same airlines and they only fly to Ukraine. Also there are no direct flights from Bangkok to Lithuania so the only option was Ukraine (the connecting flight). They chose for him and were not considering any other options. Only home country or where he boarded his flight to Bangkok.
I would like to know too when and how other people get to choose where to fly by themselves.



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Everyone here knows about this requirement. I've always travelled everywhere around the world with a good chunk of cash on me just in case I can't get to an ATM for a few days or there is some banking issue and I can't use one of my cards.
 
The issue here is people who are not familiar with the regulations, these are the people who are getting caught out and rejected.
 
The reason they're not familiar with the regulations is because they're so unusual.
 
Having said that I've never been asked to show any cash when entering the country anywhere, ever.

If you would read my post you quoted, I wrote:
"Reading a lot about the problems other expats encounter with registering their tm30, I became curious what would happen when another person registers as living in my house..."
 
You asked me: "What is guest mobile?" - I just answered your question....

For all unaware of Thailands entry requirements, including show some cash, quite a lot actually. Please stop complaining. Grow up. And do your homework! Google it if you have to.


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"guest mobile" I call a cellphone that I give to guests (kids, friends) staying at my home. It is equipped with a working Sim-card, essential phone-numbers, Google-Maps with waypoints to find home or landmarks around my home and most social-media accounts.
 
I did receive new and different Login-code and password for my son from pibics/Immigration.

If you live in a TVF world maybe it’s well known. If your coming here a second time on a Tourist Visa or METV and don’t live on this forum or frequent it regularly or know someone who does you would never know this stupid pathetic draconian rule. It’s silly to carry a lot of cash in this soon to be cashless world. 

10 hours ago, Lupusthai said:

On May 26th 2019 I applied for the TM30 online-registration using the 'section38'-App.

( I'm the owner of my house, no Thai registered in there )
I attached

- 1 Photo of pages 1/2 blue housebook
- 1 Photo of pages 1/2 of my passport.

I received my user-number and preliminary password 4 1/2 days later by email and had no problems to fill-out and send my TM30.
 

Reading a lot about the problems other expats encounter with registering their tm30, I became curious what would happen when another person registers as living in my house...

I used my "Guest mobile" to register my son as a 'housemaster' of his 'fathers home':

I didn't attach any documents and verified the supplied email address.
On 26th of July 3 hours later I received two emails asking for copies of the blue housebook and my (son's) Id (passport). I attached the corresponding photos using the section38-App again on 30th of July.
I (my son) received the confirmation email on 5th August as follows:
 

 

no problems at all...

Edited 6 hours ago by Lupusthai
update

I find your post hard to follow due the confusing terminology used.

What is guest mobile? Did you register tm30 your son as a person living in your house (pakasai) on section38 app? Puupakasai, translates as tenant/temporary resident, and is the term normally used in tm30.

House master, jaobaan, is a totally different term and cannot be registered on any apps. The owner of the house can name housemaster and its printed in the blue/yellow book. This happens at khet/amphoe office.

Or did you somehow receive new logins and passwords for your son to use, instead of just using the ones you already were issued with?

21 hours ago, BritTim said:

I generally believe posts like yours until there is good reason to suspect something. However, immigration does not have the power to void visas. Perhaps, there is a problem in communication, but (if this report is not a complete fabrication) immigration is ignoring the visa, not cancelling it.

 

If your friend was not carrying cash, immigration can validly deny entry under Section 12 (9).

The tourist didn´t have 20k THB with him. All else is useless speculation and totally irrelevant. What a useless post from the OP.

1 hour ago, jackdd said:

9 hours ago, zhangxifu said:

Cost to change registration province is high. Over 2000 thb. It was not necessary at all. 

Costs something like 200-300 THB

 

I was told for a car. Assumed same for bikes?

1 hour ago, yodsak said:

I paid her to put it on a chonburi plate with my chonburi address, the same as the res' cert'  

It came back 5 months later with my name, same plate and a BKK address.

 So an incorrect, false,  as in not my chonburi address.

Who's address is it ?  

 Who gets the speeding tickets  ?

 

I had no idea what it should have cost because i have never done it before.

  She's done it on the cheap so she can pocket the money.        

If the owners name was changed but not the address, it sounds weird. Main thing is that name and passport number are correct. You can see the previous history and changes in the book. Now that you have discovered it was some fraudulous agent I would go check all the data of the vehicle on DLTs computers. That it matches the book. I think all those PooRooBoo places can access the same computer system, maybe they can help. It might be that he just saved 10 thb asking to change only the name and not the address. But I would check that everything is in order. I would guess the computer system will also notify of speeding tickets but it dosn't yet matter as it seems you only need to pay them if you want to change the owners name.

I lost my number plate so had to learn all this from scratch and its a lot of steps. No thai friends could clearly explain how it works. Even the 5 different DLT's I have been to in Bangkok and Chonburi and Isan would only explain a small part of the whole process and then I would always be at the wrong office.  I just received my yearly private insurance bill and it still uses the old address for some reason.

Sounds like the agent i used.
Ongoing nightmare.   Part 1.
 
 In January I bought a bike from a thai dealer on sukumvit. ฿300k .
First time i've bought second hand.   The bike had BKK plates, falang owner in the book.
 
Got a residence certificate, went back to the dealer. He said go to DLT  st regents and call this number.   Got to the testing area , called the number , a woman met me. 
I thought she worked there , i didn't know she was an agent until  a few weeks later.
 
Check the bike ,go to her office out side the main building.  I pay her 6,200฿ for changing the plate, book, transfer tax, insurance road tax.  Should the seller pay some of that ?
 Plate will be here in 2 weeks.  
A hundred  B/S excuses  later  ,  several visits to  the dealer and her office, and many phone calls, most not answered,  the green book is dropped off to a friend of mine in late june.
5 months later. [He also has dealings with her].    
 
The book has my name in it but a BKK address. Great.  Went to her office, not there.   Called her ,she says chonburi  ''no have number plates''.  Sounds plausible.  
  So i've paid her 6,200 +1000 for res' cert'. got a book in my name, with someone else's BKK address  , and still on BKK plates.    
 
Go inside ask several people what to do , not interested.   Finally the number plate man says it has to go to BBK to change to chonburi.   [turns out he's wrong]
 
Go back to the dealer, he says the agent is the same with everybody.  Takes months. 
 
Go to another agent i've used before at a testing station on sukumvit near the HW7 flyover. 
He says it can be done at chonburi,    DIY 2 trips ,cheap.  or pay him ฿2500  just 1 trip for inspection.
I go for the 1 trip option.
 
At the end of July i drop off the book and another residence certificate , passport copies for him to check.   All good.  
 Go DLT chonburi, call his agent, straight in no queues, inspected.
 Pencil rubbing on masking tape for chassis number.    thailand 4.0
 Plate and the book due  this week.
  Cost ?  6,200 + 2,500 +  2000 for 2 agent supplied residence certificates = 10,700  all in + hassle, phone calls ,many trips to DLT.     TIT as they say,    
 
Part 2 later.  
 
post #7     It can be done in chonburi.
   
 
 

4 hours ago, jackdd said:

5 hours ago, alanrchase said:

As I understand it the transfer has to be done at the DLT that the car is registered at. The OP says the car has a Bangkok plate so the blue book will have to be taken to Bangkok. 

This is wrong

The transfer will be done completely at the Chonburi DLT, no visit to BKK necessary. The 3 days waiting time and the two visits are required because the one DLT sends some documents to the other DLT (i don't know if BKK sends documents to Chonburi or if it's the other way arround), but this is something the DLTs handle internally.

I just recently changed the name on my bike and had to go it's registration province to get it done. The other option would have been to register the bike in the new province first. Get new number, plate and book. In Bangkok those can be done in a few days, but In Chonburi I had to wait 60 days for replacement plate after I lost one. Would the changing province plate be any faster? Are you saying Automobile and Motorcycle registration is not same?

10 hours ago, Leaver said:

On 7/10/2019 at 3:12 PM, zhangxifu said:

The point was that it is common custom to include id and tb in the rental contract. As with out id it's not legally binding. So now you have another reason to ask for these docs, TM30 and make sure you get them while making a rental contract. Or if not available, choose another property, yes. Easy!

Ummm, I think that's what I said.

 

No documents for a TM30 = no tenant.

That's right! That's what you said. And that's why I said yes. I also said that this is another new and good reason for everyone to inquire why the copies of ID and TB are not attached with the lease, if the case. To begin with, if you are in any kind of contract without ID copy your contract might be just full of made up data. Please notice I said it might, there is a possibility. Also, when inquired and refused the docs in question, that would be know too, so no confusion.

5 hours ago, Scouse123 said:

 

A quick question.

 

I might not understand this TM30 correct but I thought they wanted to know within 24 hours?

 

How would that fly if you are sending in TM30 by mail?

No fine possible. I know of people who send the letter at the airport, immediately after arriving.

9 hours ago, SS1 said:

9 hours ago, jackdd said:

Laws usually say what is forbidden and not what is allowed. As i said, before i also expected this to be forbidden, but another poster said it's not.

So i had a look in the Traffic Act and couldn't find anything which actually says that turning across it is forbidden, so it looks like that it's allowed.

I can of course not quote something which doesn't exist.

I had a quick look, I think this one. I'm not sure if the term "safety zone" refers to those double striped yellows though. 

You can always visit any DLT to learn about the traffic signs and rules. Usually they are happy to help.

7 hours ago, webfact said:

Thaivisa notes that many in Pattaya have said that Chinese travelers are not great supporters of the entertainment industry especially its beer bars and clubs. Many are just there to look and some doubt whether Indians have the spending power to make a difference. 

Does this mean that the thaivisa members are there definitely to touch as well? And no sharing.