Tod Daniels

I saw that over the last week 😮 appts were not getting booked up as fast at all

Doing a 90 report in person isn't the same as the two online systems (TM 30 and TM 47) cross checking passport and addresses

Yep, anyone can do the report for you, just has to be done at the immigration office

The 8th is the last day you can file a 90 day report without having the 2000baht late filing penalty If you can get an appt for that day remember you do not go to Section A (the 90 day report room) to file a 90 day report with an appt pre-booked, you go to Section B (there is a special desk for 90 day reporting for people who have appts and people who have elite visa

docinbangkok any update? Did you go out and ask them who called, or have someone (like a thai) call the number back and as what it was about?

I have not personally seen or heard of immigrations denying 60 day visit thai family extensions because the foreign father doesn't have legal parental rights. Usually birth certificate, mother's thai house book listing, thai i/d, child's house book listing should work. Now year extensions are a totally different kettle of fish

Totally 100% correct 😮 😕 Since they did the last update to the TM47 online system you have to file the first report after you return from abroad in person before you can then use the online system for subsequent 90 day reports AND Now that the TM47 and the TM30 systems cross check passport/addresses you need to file a new TM30 when you come in from abroad as well Plus one last bit of bad news the "window to apply online" is from 2 weeks before down until 1 week before the due date (outside that window you get denied)

View this quiz 1 August - Entry/Visa/Extension Quiz A few questions on entry/visa/extensions, provided by @Tod Daniels, which is described as having as a level of difficulty of, “easy-peasy-lemon-squeezy” Submitter Captain Flack Type One Right Answer Time 5 minutes Total Questions 6 Category Thailand Submitted 08/01/2024  

Totally correct, I know of no denial of entries at those borders that I mentioned although I do know that they sporadically do enforce the must stay in Cambodia overnight rule, but as you mentioned there is a way to pay and not stay 😉

If you buy an e Visa online before you go you only get the entry exit stamp to cambodia, if you buy the visa on arrival at the border you get a sticker and it takes a full page of your passport

I apologize for giving you bad information early on, I thought it was a pretty straightforward thing that can be done at all land borders all the time. Evidently it is not as easy as I remembered.

And I just got a reply from a company I messaged up here in Bangkok and this is what they said. So it can be done it just can't be done at every border every day.

Okay if you're on a 30-day Visa exempt entry and you have not extended it yet by 30 more days you could get the stamp moved to the new passport when you do the extension otherwise you show both passports when you exit the country and they will stamp you out on the new passport and make a notation that you'd entered on the old one and you can indeed leave by land and come back in. You are not trading country passports you are swapping an old passport for a new passport from the same country and that can be done by land And you cannot get that stamp moved at the main immigration office up here in Bangkok Chaengwattana, Visa exempt entry stamps and extensions are moved at IT Square Laksi Plaza. If you're just going to bounce out and back for a new free entry talk to one of the agents that run from jomtien, there's one that leaves every day from Queen Vic hotel I believe. They shouldn't have a problem with you bouncing with both passports.

Careful with that answer there, they got a new passport and they're trying to swap an old for a new passport from the same country it would appear and that can be done at a land border without any issue at all

At this time it would appear there is no problem bouncing out and back to get a 60 day entry stamp as the 60-day Visa exempt entry by land was recently made unlimited. Meaning if you've already milked your two 30 day entries this year by land you should be able to get out and back in on a 60-day entry stamp without any issue as long as you pick the correct border <-by that I mean don't try to exit re-enter at the Aranyaprathet Poipet border.

There are no financial requirements to get the 90-day single entry non-o visa Based on either marriage to a thai or supporting a Thai child. Birth certificate, mother's thai ID, mother's house book listing, child's house book listing if you have it. Your passport, three passport size photos, one to get into lao at the border, two for the application, copies of the data page of your passport, your lao visa, your lao entry stamp and a filled out application Remember the Thai consulate in Savannakhet now requires mandatory online booked appointments to get in the gate, and they have three business day processing counting the day you apply

You can only buy an ox Visa in your country of passport origin or a country that you have permanent residence in

Just curious, when did you last use the "agent outside the embassy" ?

Totally BS, The services that bounce people out in back at the Cambodian borders get you out and back the same day. Just had a service the other day that needed 18 vans to take the people who showed up that morning to the border and everybody got out and back the same day and everybody got a 60-day stamp, that's 180 people who are living proof you don't need to stay out overnight

You might get out and back on your own at these borders with Cambodia Ban Laem/Duang Chanthaburi Ban Pakard/Phsar Prum Chanthaburi Kap Choen/Osmach Surin There is a very high chance you will not get out and back at the Aranyaprathet/Poipet border. Those "I'm going to bounce myself and save money" ideas often end up not saving you any money.

Okay people, Here is a foolproof way to tell whether your 90-day reporting was reset when you got a new year extension issued. Ask yourself: When I got my year extension stamp inked in did the immigration officer give me a new 90-day report receipt with a new due date? If that answer is yes, they did reset your 90-day reporting when you got your extension and you follow that new paper. If that answer is no, they did not reset your 90-day reporting when you got your extension and you follow the due date of 90-day paper in your passport now. That works 100% of the time.

In many many hundreds of non-immigrant type O applications that I have seen go through section C1 out at Chaengwattana I have never heard of or seen an application denied after you applied paid the 2,000 baht and got a return date on your receipt. And I will add I have never ever heard of anyone reporting C/W asking for a backhander to do a Non-O visa.. How about you dial back the paranoia a notch or three, call that number and see what they want or better yet, slog on out there and say you missed the call and you wanted to see what it was about.

That could be it, because they are doing home visits on initial non-o Visa applications out there, I know several people applying for both retirement and marriage non O visa who had home inspections during the two week under review period

You don't get told to come back in 2 weeks it should be on the blue green receipt for 2000 baht to come back on this date (two weeks out) for your results