Maestro

How are these director duties and the compensation for them defined?

The OP did not post a photo of a sign and for this reason that post is not helpful at all. The second reply on this topic includes a photo of a sign and this sign says nothing about cancellation of a re-entry permit if the automatic gate is used for departure. This post is helpful.

Yes, this is allowed and Thailand will welcome you back with open arms.

The machine-readable code is standardised by the ICAO (International Civil Aviation Organization). Information about the currently standardised biometrics is here. Some countries may be including additional information but make some or all of this inaccessible to third parties.

1. The information in the two lines of machine-readable code at the bottom of the ID page of your passport. 2. The digital copy of your passport photo on the chip in your passport and the comparison of it with the photo taken at the immigration desk. 3. If the chip in your passport has an image of your fingerprints and if the passport issuer allows access to them by authorised agencies with the apposite equipment, the comparison of them with your fingerprints taken at the immigration desk.

What immigration office was that?

You're right; I missed that point working on the phone and not scrolling back to the OP. Not being on one-year extensions, I miss out on a lot of excitement

Thank you for this useful clarification. Now, let's hear from foreigners who have actually used the automatic passport control channel on departure at BKK since the beginning of this month after having stayed in Thailand based on an entry with a visa of any category or based on an extension of stay. Myself, I shan't be able to start testing this until 16 March when, after having entered the country on 21 December with a single-entry non-O visa, I will fly back to Europe. The second part of the test will come when I next fly to Thailand, probably towards the end of this year, and show my passport with the latest Thai stamp being the arrival stamp of 21 DEC 2023 and and no subsequent departure stamp. (I expect encounter no problem)

An illegal practice that used to work at an unspecified time in the past is highly unlikely to work today. I suggest that anybody who is desperate to get a criminal record in Thailand should try other ways, not anything to do with interactions with immigration offices.

With your comment "...Nothing changed...", are you saying that you tried using the automatic channel on departure from BKK and the system refused to process it and you had to join the queue for the manual passport control?

Application for the non-O visa and for subsequent one-year extensions of stay must be made at the immigration office in the province where you will be living with your wife.

Has the OP given the name ot the immigration office where this allegedly happened? Has the OP posted a copy of the receipt for the fine he allegedly paid? Not as far as I can see but he should feel free to send me a PM with this information.

It is the responsibility of "the householder, the owner or the possessior" Source: Section 38 of the Immigration Act

Are you and sandyf using the same immigration office? I'm asking because not all immigration offices use the same procedures in all details.

You cannot. Who said that you have to put a TM.30 in your passport?

You subsequently opened this closed topic and got all the information there: https://aseannow.com/topic/1315490-tm30-online-only-owners-can-not-if-you-are-a-tenant-renting/?do=findComment&comment=18577566

Everything that needed to be said about some procedures applied by the Pattaya immigration office not being in line with the official procedures published on the website of the Immigration Bureau has been said.

Giving the name of the immigration office is always relevant, because we are seeing very often that different offices handle things differently.

The equivalent of THB 400,000 in a UK bank is acceptable. When I applied in October, in Switzerland where I live, for a single-entry non-visa to visit my Thai wife I wrote 90 days as my duration of stay. It is is in fact 90 days that you will stay on the basis of the permission to stay you are given when you enter Thailand. Your subsequent one year stay will be on the basis of the extension of permission to stay.

Thank you for sharing your experience. I am sure other readers also appreciated your post but felt no need or cause to comment on it.

When you see a post with information you know to be incorrect, please feel free to reply to that post and give the correct information, preferably with a link to the source.

Are you quite sure that the OP said you don't need an onward ticket. The way I read it, the OP said he didn't need an onward ticket (flying with unamed airlines during non-specified periods) Based on the many posts on this subject, the simple facts are that 1. any airline may not have required it yesterday, but may require it today; 2. some airlines may require it today, but other airlines may not require it at exactly the same time today; 3. any airline may require it for some passengers on a particular day at a particular time for a particular flight, but not for other passengers. In oher words, one person's experience posted here is no guarantee that I will have the same experience.

That's a very long stretch of the imagination.

As there have been a lot of off-topic and abusive posts, there is no point in continuing this discussion.

"a waste of money" is subjective. Not everybody likes to do things electronically as much as I like it (and no doubt many others, too) Aside from that, I have seen several posts on this forum from people fretting whether the immigration office's approval, ie confirmation that they accepted the notification as being correct, would arrive in time, and one or two posts where the foreigner was fined THB 2000 when making the notification in person one day late when the confirmation for the online notification did not arrive in time.