CMBob

Technically, you can report in person up to 7 dats (hmmm....consider that about 6 days as they may consider your due date as day 1 of the 7-day period) after the due date. Regardless, just use the drive-thru window (or adjacent walk-up window) as that typically takes only a few minutes. All they need there is your passport and a completed TM47. Edit: If the officer gives you a new TM47 Receipt of Notification, that would indicate you correctly and timely filed the report; alternatively, if the officer for some reason hands you back your passport and TM47 and tells you that you had no need to report, that'd be an answer too. Come back to this thread and give us the lowdown.

The general rule is that a 90-day report (TM47) is due to be filed if/when one stays within Thailand for 90 consecutive days. That general rule would not apply in 2 situations: (1) When you converted in-country to a Non-O AND the immigration office when converting adds a TM47 Receipt of Notification (with reporting date) to your passport. Obviously, just report by the new date given. (2) If one believes the reports, apparently some (few?) immigration offices take the position that a new annual extension starts over a new 90-day time period....but I wouldn't buy that concept unless you're given a new TM47 Receipt of Notification at the time you get your annual extension. I'd note that Chiangmai Immigration does not take this view (up here, 90-day time periods and annual extension dates are separate/independent).

And you're presuming that happened in CM. I don't as, even when using an agent, the person extending needs to show up at Immigration here in CM (mainly for the photo).

Actually, disagree. As we all know, the TM30 law places equal responsibility for a TM30 filing on the owner and the tenant. It's my belief that it's better for the tenant to register on the site and then the tenant can update as necessary without bothering the landlord. Although my landlord accompanied me to Immigration about 12 years ago to file the first one, I subsequently registered online and have done subsequent ones when needed (which means basically when some hotel in Thailand has filed a TM30 for me). To register, I needed a photocopy of the landlord's ID and chanote, the address, and some of your personal info. Wasn't all that difficult.

That's not the way it was initially. I do remember (same as Worgeordie) that when the airport Immigration building closed, we had to get to Promenada very early and had to queue up outside with the hope of ending up with a reasonable queue number so we could get the annual extension before the staff's lunch break. There were even people claiming they actually showed up at 3-4AM and said even then that there were agents (or their "sitters") already sitting in the first seats with a bagful of passports and various Immigration paperwork. Later (once new Immigration building was finished?), the office at Promenada moved upstairs.....but, if I recall right, they no longer did annual extensions out there (not 100% sure of that as from that point on I only went to the airport Immigration building).

Puzzled by the purported nostalgia as to how "good" it used to be. Back when we had to show up at 6AM and spend 4-6 hours to get our annual extensions and also having to go to Immigration another 4 times a year to file our 90-day reports.......those were the good old days? Not in my memory.

Come on, it really isn't all that difficult. For most of us, we typically only have to go to Immigration once a year for our extensions and, if one has an appointment, it's fairly easy to do. And we're only talking once a year. As for 90-day reports, things have vastly improved from the "good" old days when we had to queue up inside to file those. Now we have the online system which is easy to use and, on those occasions where the online is rejected, we have to show up but only need to hand over our passport and the completed TM47 at the drive-up/walk-up window and that's rather quick (never had to wait even 5 minutes using the drive-up window). As concerns re-entry permits, the easy thing to do there is to simply get one at the airport....rather quick and easy. So, while I don't like hanging around inside the Immigration building once a year for an hour or so (with appointment), it's really not all that difficult or oppressive.

In the interests of transparency, your website could be clearer. The only reference to the "official" TDAC website is at the very top and may be missed by some visitors to your website (took me three attempts to find any language that somewhat said your TDAC isn't official). Out of curiosity, when a person comes to your website and fills in the personal information, what do you do with it? Do you then duplicate that personal information on the official TDAC website? And does the personal information provided languish on your server? I think it's great for other non-official websites to assist visitors but, given some people dislike providing personal information to any government website, they are a bit wary of unnecessarily providing the same personal information to a commercial website.

You've mentioned "restrictions" twice but your post would make more sense if you described the "restrictions" that are bothering you. If you can withdraw and deposit funds, what else is there you need to do?

I'm a smoker but fully understand how many people absolutely detest the odor and especially dislike when their clothes end up reeking of cigarette smoke after sitting in any establishment where oblivious smokers ply their trade. As I said, I smoke....but have enough civility to not do that inside or anywhere close to any non-smoker. Unfortunately, a couple posts in this thread indicate that rude jerks live among us.

No, they don't. I have had my computer serviced twice (once to install an SSD drive and another time to fix some issue) by one of the shops (New Accessories) on the ground floor. Quite satisfied with the service.

The system is working. Filed online the 16th although rejected the 17th. No reason given for the rejection although the rejection email said I needed to go to Immigration "immediately." I'm guessing the rejection is because I re-entered the country at the end of January and they are requiring the first application to be done in person after re-entering the country. No problem, my "immediately" will be handled via the CM drive-through window in a few days.

Here in Chiangmai they've wanted a complete photocopy of all pages of one's old passport (every page that has any stamp on it regardless of origin). I don't remember if I signed every one of those pages but probably did.

It is working although took me a couple of tries this morning to do my online report (perhaps I screwed up the weird password the first time or two).

While I agree that some farang are rather a pain (especially on outside of the moat on the east side of CM), for the most part the Thais are having a blast. If you don't want to get wet, just don't venture out for three days after about 11AM. A few photos over the years of the festivities:

No problem. The last Songkran event here in CM will be a procession tomorrow afternoon from Three Kings to the Governor's residence....and there likely will be some water tossing during that event; other than that, water tossing is pretty much finished here in CM after today.

Where are you talking about? This is the Chiangmai forum and what you were told simply isn't going to happen here.

At least here in Chiangmai, any pedestrian that crosses a street at any type of crossing (a marked zebra crossing regardless if stoplights, signs, or whatever are present) without at least watching for cars or motorcycles totally ignoring it and speeding on through is simply taking a gamble. Seems that stoplights, stop signs, and other traffic signals are simply "advisory" for some drivers here.

By "fixed deposit account", do you mean you simply keep the funds in a separate savings account that's simply a one-year term account, an account which you can get access to (withdraw) anytime you want although you would lose accrued interest if you did so? I'm guessing that is what you are calling a "fixed deposit" account.....as any other type of regular savings account that has a fixed term (one year, two year, etc.) that you cannot get access to in the interim would not qualify as a bank account to support an annual extension based on either marriage or retirement. (I'm not asking about a foreign currency account here)

For Chiangmai: 1. Completed TM 7 form (with photo- 4 x 6cm). And neatly write your phone number below your signature on 2nd page. 2. Photocopy of passport pages: entire photo-page including the code numbers and page showing entry stamp. Sign your full name in blue ink on both photocopies. For "reasons for extension", just write "extending vacation" or something like that. 3. 1,900 baht. 4. Typically want a photocopy of TM30 too (has been required last couple of years).

That's the first report I've ever seen or heard of the "same-day-as-application" bank paperwork involving annual extensions here in Chiangmai. I do presume you're talking about an extension based on retirement and keeping 800k baht in the bank. And you only mention the bank letter.....weren't you also required to produce an annual statement showing you've maintained the 800/400k baht figures as required?

I have had zero issue in obtaining interest withholding statements from both Siam Commercial Bank and Bangkok Bank. And they are used to providing these documents (i.e., I've done this a few times before and there's never any confusion or questioning as to what I am requesting). Just tell them what you want and for what years and typically the forms are provided in 5-10 minutes. I've filed returns for both 2566 and 2567 and received back checks refunding the 15% withheld from bank interest. No problem.

All the malls closed right after the earthquake....but would think they are all open now. Rim Ping grocery at Maya sent a message saying they were closed right after the earthquake (I'd imagine they might have had some items fall off their shelves and wanted to clean and examine for any damage) but said their inspections were fine and they would be open this morning.

Unless this is a new requirement, it wasn't the case when I converted from exempt to Non-O three years ago. I obtained the bank letter the day before application. I also had the funds in the bank for a long time (as in years) so there was no need to show the funds came from abroad. Edit: My experience was with Chiangmai Immigration.

I've done extensions and 90-day reports here in CM for almost 15 years and they have always been independent of any annual extension based on retirement (i.e., they've never done anything TM47-wise when I applied and received annual extensions based on retirement). I accept that this has happened to you here in CM as you say it has always happened to you.....but that's the first time I've ever heard of that happening to anybody (again, referring to annual extensions based on retirement).