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That's only if you never travel outside the country, and then each time you'll need a number of hours to either visit the regional immigration office (plus hopefully take the time to make an appointment), or to get copies of all of the needed documents, fill out the form and multiple envelopes, sign all the copies, visit a post office - possibly not even the local post office if the exact-15-day requirement doesn't fall on a day the post office is open, etc - and of course set up reminders to submit everything, reminders to check that your application was approved, etc. - this isn't something you can just set and not pay attention until 90 days later. And for renewing a visa, some (many? all?) visa types can't make an appointment, so on top of the hours traveling to/from the regional immigration office, getting the annual documents if needed from your bank, filling out the multiple forms, getting copies of and signing all required documents, getting a current photo taken, you still have hours more waiting in a queue at immigration - and there's a decent chance there will also be another hour delay while the immigration office closes for lunch, etc - these things take up much of a day to get done from start to finish. And immigration is open only during limited business hours, so if you're working you'll likely also need to take time (a day?) off from work to do each visa renewal and maybe each 90 day notification if you've left the country. Or for another example posted today of how it is not so easy: https://aseannow.com/topic/1388553-samut-prakan-immigration-youd-better-stay-in-bangkok/ Do you need to provide copies of all passport pages, including blank ones? Do you need a copy of the owner's ID? Their phone number? Do you need not just your most recent TM30, but the previous one as well? etc.

In case it helps others, I reviewed the last 3 or 4 months of posts in this thread, and I found 1 report of online working upon re-entry with the Phuket office, arrived in October: https://aseannow.com/topic/1353374-thai-immigration-online-90-day-reporting-system-2025/page/8/#findComment-20313297 And 1 report of online not working after re-entry with the Bangkok office, arrived in December: https://aseannow.com/topic/1353374-thai-immigration-online-90-day-reporting-system-2025/page/9/#findComment-20394913

Are they? Can you or anyone else confirm whether 90 day reports are allowed to be submitted online after entering the country? We've got reports saying opposite things in recent months. Even on "little" things like the required dates differ from office to office - Bangkok immigration's calendar shows online can be submitted 15 days before - i.e. if your due date is the 17th, you can submit on the 2nd, while other offices make the cutoff 14 days before the deadline (apparently as they count the due date as being one of the days). The dates are even more important for things like mail submissions which must be submitted 15 days before - not within 15 days nor more than 15 days. The deadline is 90 days since the last submission, or 89 days since arrival to Thailand (since they count the day of arrival as already being 1 day). And the TM 47 instructions ( https://www.immigration.go.th/?page_id=1648 ) still say to provide a "Copy of the departure Immigration Form 6 (TM.6), front and back. See example of Immigration Form 6." despite that there hasn't been TM6 like that officially for multiple years now, and that Thailand wasn't actually distributing TM6s for years before that. Etc.

Sorry that this happened to you. More to understand how to avoid that myself, I'm curious if you had a copy of the (landlord's) TM30 that you could show them - presumably that would have met their needs?

For future reference, postal mail is also possible on the first day, although it isn't nearly as easy as online (but online isn't possible for the first submission).

From Googling the wording they quoted, I came up with https://www.immigration.go.th/?page_id=1648 using the English language selection (which also matches the Google Translate translation of the Thai text). 🤷 (In addition to the above link, it also appears at https://uttaradit.immigration.go.th/en/notification-of-staying-in-the-kingdom-for-more-than-90-days/#:~:text=Aliens can report their residence,proceed with the fine comparison. )

Sorry, how did they contradict themselves? They listed the instructions from the website, then they provided the correct answer, and finally provided a real life example of how the website instructions don't match what the website supports?

Note that in recent years social security migrated away from a social security specific login to instead use the cross-gov Login.gov service.

Haha 2007-H1 here, although back then it was "GrandCentral" before it became Google Voice. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Voice#History

It works on many sites, although there are also a number of sites where it doesn't. For example, Wells Fargo and US Bank. And a website to participate in a class action lawsuit last year. Other sites have partial support, such as Discover and Ally Bank not working with Google Voice SMS specifically.

Do they also use that calendar / where is that image from? (Reverse image searching it only turned it up on sites not run by immigration.) (As mentioned in the grandparent comment, that appears to be an earlier version of the one that Bangkok Immigration currently has posted ( https://bangkok.immigration.go.th/en/90days-report/ ) - you can see how the checkmark on the 12th and the X on the 20th overlay the earlier version.) Reverse image search: https://www.google.com/search?sca_esv=7fef88c703f42cc5&hl=en-TH&sxsrf=AHTn8zqPDtttmx296ScrsnHFLDWXhEG9ig:1740987824128&udm=48&si=APYL9buGmpQYpE6338c1FuRm_huDhoS-SW7UwUk0c_FqJnHYAdXy75cy21r0nXDWc0BvJ8yQ0Ss64cCM1u2PIXyAgx0aaUvb6IaPNXEm61_XTDQwjRpEO0C36yaIHMoXSaQc4SXevJyJ2vMmt1wutsDpSRDOoPKRqPq7GACEN1skuSVSrY9yMZycZs-pjusZWSmFa3tthTYO&vsint=CAIqDAoCCAcSAggiGAAgATojChYNAAAAPxUAAAA_HQAAgD8lAACAPzABEMgFGIEEJQAAgD8&vsrid=CO6G5eCLp-iYdhACGAEiJDI3NTE4YWMyLTcxOTktNDgwNi1hZGVjLWMyNDQ2ZGRlOWQ3OQ&gsessionid=3jSvb-Ja3WBD8_V4MEQtnTVCXZciI206pkg7nec9YE5sTIwUqpU5IQ&lsessionid=IrLtiDfpU4F5gGqLcvIzGu3rZ2n_PyuZBqJJeAuW6U7xze55796b-g&vsdim=712,513&lns_mode=un&source=lns.web.gisbubu&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwis0cKGte2LAxWyd_UHHQTZBGcQpOwNegQITRAA&biw=1280&bih=739&dpr=2

UltraMobile PayGo is excellent, yes. However, note that many newer phones are esim (only) - you call UltraMobile to enable esim -- no need for any physical sim to transit US > Thailand. However, you do need a photo of the sim info from the US package for the info for when you call them.

https://bangkok.immigration.go.th/en/90days-report/ provides an example that seems to have a different interpretation. Their example: Due: 27th September 15 days early (12th September) has a checkmark for can submit online. (Although it appears Bangkok Immigration photoshopped/added that date as being allowed after the original image had been created, as that checkmark is smaller/less vibrant than the other days' checkmarks.) Also, they say online submission should be "not less than 7 days before the due date" - but 7 days early (the 20th) is marked as forbidden. This again appears to be a subsequent photoshop/change by Bangkok Immigration, as it looks like that 'X' appears on top of a previous green checkmark that is just barely visible by the top right of the X.

Was this your first TM47 after coming back from outside to Thailand? Which immigration office? Because I just read the last handful of pages and others in recent months still seem to be commenting that the online system doesn't work for the first submission after your most recent arrival in Thailand. (Maybe they're referring to Bangkok and you use a different immigration office?) For another recent data point, https://www.facebook.com/groups/destinationthailandvisa/posts/1981045682418378/ from February 10 says their first 90 day online was rejected.

Based on their comment, I think their answer was military hospitals.