Vaughan9

From my experience with Lao and Cambodian students renting some of my condo rooms: The new online system (from sometime last year) for registering a residence to accept foreigners, and adding the details to register new foreign arrivals and print a TM30, is far superior to the previous two systems, which now seem to be obsolete. Once the residence is registered, it just takes 5 minutes to enter the data, save it to inform Immigration, and print out a TM30 if needed... No need to go to any Immigration Office. Try going to: https://tm30.immigration.go.th/; to register the residence (need to upload Owner's ID/passport, House Registration (Tabien Baan)) and enter name, address etc), and once the residence is registered, it is easy to add foreigners checking in.

Using the new website, https://tm30.immigration.go.th/tm30/#/login, (Started mid September and superceded the previous online and Section 38 app) is VERY EASY compared to all previous methods, WORKS WELL compared to previous methods, and requires less information. Much easier to add foreign vistors or tenants too (no need for TM6 info, or arrival dates, and entry point - which, of course, the Immigration always had!. I had to re-enter the information (which I had previously entered for the old website and Section 38 app) from scratch, but that turned out to be easy. I have a blue house registration so I entered info as a Thai using my pink non-Thai ID card. All I had to upload was the scan of my Pink card, the copy of the front page of each house registration, and I also uploaded a scan of the Land Deed. Non Permanent Residents would probably upload their passport detail page and a scan of the Yellow Book and Land Deed. Register your condo/house first, confirm your email address, and start adding any foreign tenants or visitors. Only problem (same as for pervious systems) is printing a hard copy of the TM30... I just did a screen shot of the acceptance page to print out for the tenant which may be needed for visa extensions. If tenants/vistors leave the country there seems to be no need to do a new TM30 on re-entry (but I havent had to do that yet) as there is no arrival date, entry point, or TM6 number to enter. Don't waste your time going to an Immigration Office etc.

My wife and I have a few condo rooms for rent, mainly to CP/7Eleven scholarship students from Laos and Cambodia. I have registered all our rooms with Immigration online, intitially with my browser at https://extranet.immigration.go.th/fn24online/ (many bugs in this software to navigate through), but now I'm using the Section 38 app, downloaded to my phone from PlayStore, for foreign tenants arriving or re-entering Thailand... No need for blue ink!!! And no need to go to an immigration office.

As mentioned above by others, from my experience, the TM6 is only needed for land crossings. I arrived from Thakhek, Laos 2 days ago via the 3rd Friendship Bridge at Nakorn Phanom. In addition, it is no longer needed when using the Section 38 app to do the TM30 / 24 hour notification of residence. I, however, still fill it in for land arrivals.

I live in a condomium and own some units which I rent out mainly to university students. Some students are flying in from Laos in a week or so. They are all fully vaccinated (with Pfizer I understand), will be staying in a Quarantine Hotel nearby for a night before they move to my rooms the next day. They will have their Education visas, vaccination certificates, Covid insurance and their negative test results, and I will file their TM-30s with Immigration as soon as I can get their passport and visa details, and TM-6 numbers (if they still use them). I informed the Condominium Office a couple of weeks ago that they would be coming with all the correct documents. Yesterday I was informed by the Condo Office staff that the Committee has decided that the Lao nationals will not be allowed to enter Condo's premises, and if they do come, the police will be called. This does not seem lawful to me. Can condo committees make regulations about who can live or rent rooms?