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Answer is a definite yes, if you are using Jomtien Immigration and it's within 72 hours with them.

Nowhere that I'm aware. Only when you go there and want to do something then it's advertised to you by the queue ticket girls to you face to face that you need to do a TM30.

You're asking on the wrong forum. Might want to ask on a Thai forum where Thai people use as 100% of the members here are not Thai. We are all foreigners who enjoy living and/or visiting Thailand.

Why would you not have to prove you are retired??? There are tons of people in the world over 50 who are not retired and are still wage slaves or running businesses. Sounds fair to ask for proof that someone is in fact retired and not faking it while being wage slaves or running a business. Retirement visas are for people who are legit retired and over the age of 50. If that's not the case, they shouldn't be on that visa and use the appropriate correct visa to visit Thailand. It's called a "retirement visa" for a reason.

Jomtien - I would say within the last 5 months at least. It's up to people if they want to listen to us or if they want to chance it and find out for themselves & risk a fine. There's been plenty of reports from posters with first hand experience so it's "up to them" now if they choose to listen or not.

I just noticed the OP's last post was on 29th March 2022. It's been a long time since they've posted on this forum.

Congrats to the OP on the $200k purchase on 15th Feb 2022, you are now at breakeven after purchasing BTC at ~$44k per BTC on 15th Feb 2022. Planning to HODL or get out for breakeven?

See ya later, you won't be missed by Thailand. Thailand doesn't want poor pensioners here, they want people who are able to support themselves and have a few dollars to spend.

You do realise Thailand is predominantly a buddhist country and they don't celebrate Xmas. Not sure who'd you be buying Xmas gifts for, is it another Westerner you plan to give these gifts to? I believe Thais still go to work, don't have a public holiday and the kids still go to school on Xmas day. You're not in the West anymore so go with the flow of Thailand ;)

Was that Jomtien Immigration or a different office? Both the TM30 reporting desk (~5 months ago) and the queue ticket girls (~2 months ago) who ended up doing TM30's (instead of the TM30 desks in the opposite building) when the procedure changed about 2 months ago told me the exact same thing when I queried both the TM30 desk (~5 months ago) and the queue ticket girl (~2 months ago) handing out queue tickets/doing the TM30 dual tasks.

I'm re-entering on the same METV (not a new visa) but Jomtien Immigration have been clear that each & every time I enter on the same visa & stay at the exact same address, I must report a TM30.

Jomtien immigration - congrats. You have to report your address via a TM30 each and every time you come back to Thailand, even if you are staying in the same place as before. All has to be done 72 hours within your entry, or get a nice 1,600 baht fine. If you don't need to do anything at immigration then you don't need to worry about a TM30. If you do, then welcome to the fun of TM30 each entry into Thailand. You've gotta love Jomtien immigration, you can only do extensions one business day prior to stamp expiry too. I've wasted two trips there already and will have to make a 3rd trip one business day before stamp expiry.

Ok, US soldier. Doubt he got sucker punched, this is not a western country where that type of stuff happens often. Most likely he did something to piss the Thai off.

Wow, sounds fun. I'm jealous.

Sounds like a fun way to spend Xmas day.

There are lots of stupid Thai people here that just turn into a road without looking. They think they are the most important person in the world and don't care if another motorcycle or vehicle is coming at them.

Are the Thai people in the tourist police all volunteers just like all the foreigners who are all volunteers? How do these Thai people earn money if they are all volunteers? Are they all wealthy rich people?

I'm guessing you're pretty much stuffed if they don't extend, as you'd be either rushing to do a visa run the next day or looking at an overstay. That being said, I don't recall anyone being denied a 30 day extension but this is Jomtien, anything can happen there different from the past. This one business day prior to stamp expiry never ever used to be in the past either and is a recent brand new thing they've implemented.

I went there myself to extend. You went with an agent who bribes immigration officers for preferential treatment and queue jumping. That's the main difference for you being able to do an early extension.

Maybe in the south but I doubt anything in Jomtien is done in 1-2 hours with the amount of people going to use Jomtien Immigration. I'd say you'd be lucky to be done in half a day there waiting for your 30 day extension.

I'm wondering if with that yellow ticket number and 8:30am I can just go to Counter 1 or do I have to line up again with everyone else and get a queue number for Counter 1?

I'm wondering if with that yellow ticket number and 8:30am I can just go to Counter 1 or do I have to line up again with everyone else and get a queue number for Counter 1?

Absolutely it's insane and it pissed me off so much. Complete waste of two trips for nothing. I'm wondering if with that yellow ticket number and 8:30am I can just go to Counter 1 or do I have to line up again with everyone else and get a queue number for Counter 1?

That was the only one time I was on a visa exempt due to the 45 days being given on entry, as opposed to the usual 30 days. Not a rejection, just the queue number lady asking to come back. All other times I've been on multiple entry tourist visas for many, many years. Always extended 3-4 weeks prior to stamp expiry with no questions & no problems.

Not gonna happen where I'm renting. There's about 8 security guards, bins are emptied twice a day (should be more as sometime's it's overflowing) and the roads at the condo gets swept of leaves daily by 4 Burmese workers.