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When you re-enter Thailand on your single Re-Entry Permit, border-immigration will stamp it USED. And yes, you can then buy a new Re-Entry Permit to protect again the remainder of your Permit to stay, and you can do this either at an Immigration Office or when leaving Thailand from one of the major international airports. In fact if you foresee leaving Thailand less than 4 times during the validity of your Permit to stay, it is cheaper (1.000 THB per Single Re-Entry Permit) than buying a Multiple-Entry Re-Entry Permit (3.800 THB).

I have PM-ed you a comprehensive Guideline document on 1 - How to register an address on the IO TM 30 website, and 2 - How to notify IO using that website when a foreigner is staying at that address, and downloading the TM 30 notification of having done that.

I have PM-ed you a comprehensive Guideline document on 1 - How to register an address on the IO TM 30 website, and 2 - How to notify IO using that website when a foreigner is staying at that address, and downloading the TM 30 notification of having done that.

Are you the owner or possessor of the place you are residing? If so you should have notified the local Immigration Office within 24 hours after your return to the address you have been staying before but now on a new Permit to stay, that a foreigner - you - is staying at the premises. Note that this TM 30 notification process can be done on-line, but it requires that the address then is registered on the IO TM 30 website (and such registration is a fairly simple process). When the address is registered on the IO TM 30 website, a TM 30 of you staying there can then be made. If you are not the owner of that place (e.g. you rent from a landlord or your wife or a friend is the owner and you are simply staying there), in principle it is them that then need to have made that notification, and you would then need a copy of the TM 30 notification that they provided to Immigration, when you apply for your 90-day Non Imm O Visa. In case you are renting and the landlord is unwilling or hesitant to notify Immigration that you are staying there, it would be wise to bring a copy of the rental-agreement with you as well as a signed front/back copy of the ID-card of the landlord.

Your May '22 TM-30 notification of address is not valid anymore, as you re-entered Thailand without having kept your previous permission to stay alive, and you now have a new 45 day Permission to stay. When you intend to leave Thailand again before expiry of that 45 day Permission to stay, there is no need for you to get hold of a copy of the TM-30 notification that the owner of the place your are staying is required to make (unless of course it is you that are the owner or tenant of that location, in which case it is you that needs to inform Immigration that a foreigner - you - is staying at the premises). When you plan to apply for an extension of your current 45 day Permit to stay at the local Immigration Office of your province (or apply for a 90-day Non Imm O Visa), you then will need a copy of the TM-30 notification that the owner of your place should have made when you came back to your old address.

TM 30 > Since you re-entered on a Re-Entry Permit there is no need to file a new TM 30 as your current one for the place you are residing is still valid. Since 30 June 2020 a TM 30 notification needs to be done only ONCE for the main place where you as foreigner are staying, as the filed TM30 will stay valid as long as your permission to stay is kept alive (including its extension or when using a Re-Entry Permit). 90-day report > The clock for your 90-day reporting was reset when you re-entered Thailand. In other words your next 90-day reporting due date will be somewhere mid July.

OP is using an incorrect link. Bamnutsak provided the correct one > https://extranet.immigration.go.th/fn24online/ And it is correct that you do not need to file a 'new' TM30 when returning to your 'official address for Immigration purposes'. Filing of a new TM30 is only needed when the permission to stay or the extension of it, expired and the foreigner re-enters Thailand on a new Visa (or Visa Exempt).

When you are only staying 3-4 months in Thailand, there is little reason for you or your wife to apply for a 90-day Non Imm O Visa in US. You could consider next time to BOTH enter Thailand VisaExempt (without a Visa) which will provide you with a 30-day Permit to stay stamped in your passport by border-immigration. You can then both visit any Immigration Office and apply for a 30-day extension of stay which will be provided on the spot, and those 30 days will be added to the expiry date of the Permit to stay you received on entry. So that makes 60 days already. At the end of those 60 days, it would be simply a matter of doing a border-hop to a neighbouring country. You can either return same day or make use of the occasion to spend a couple of days in that country. On return you would once again be stamped in Visa Exempt with a 30-day Permit to stay, which can once again be extended with an additonal 30-day extension at any Immigration Office. Doing the above, you will have 120 days (when you left Thailand on the last day of your first 30-day extension of stay, and returned same day). When staying longer in your 'border-hop' country, those days will provide you a stay of longer than 120 days, to ensure you have the full 4 months before departing again to US.

You wrote that you were interested in the regulations addressing Thai Immigration requires that you provide and regularly confirm your ‘official address for immigration purposes’. To PROVIDE your address to Immigration the TM-30 is used. To CONFIRM that you are still staying at that official address after 90 days, the 90-day reporting rules are applicable. And yes I am human, and do take offense at your attitude on my genuine response to your question.

You are referring to the 90-day reporting requirement. By providing local Immigration with a TM-30 you notify them that you are staying at that address in their province, and it will become your 'official address for Immigration purposes'. Immigration then wants you to report every 90 days that you are still residing at that address (the clock is reset if you exited Thailand and re-entered). The specific legislation should be addressed in one of the documents featured in the attached link:

Here you go > see attached PDFs TM30 Section38 regulation dd 30-06-2020.pdf TM30 reporting regulation _ effective dd 30-06-2020.pdf

CharlieH response is correct. As possessor of the property where you are staying, your ex-wife can go with you to Immigration and bring with her a copy of the rental contract and her ID-card. Also a signed front-back copy of the landlord (owner) of the property's ID-card might be asked. In case that is not possible - her being your ex-wife and you might not be on speaking terms - you could simply book a cheap Hotel-room for one night (you don't even have to sleep there) before going to Immigration. According to Thai law, the Hotel has to file a TM-30 that a foreigner is staying there, so you can simply ask for a copy of that TM-30 and then head towards Immigration.

According to Thai law, the house-master, owner or possessor of the place where you are staying (which can be yourself, your wife/girlfriend, landlord or manager of Hotel/Guesthouse) needs to notify the local IO within 24 hours when a foreigner arrives at the premises. The property can be a hotel, guesthouse, rental condo, friend's house, own place, etc. Since 30 June 2020 that notification needs to be done only ONCE for the main place where you as foreigner are staying, as the filed TM30 will stay valid as long as the foreigner's permission to stay is kept alive (including its extension or when returning from a trip abroad using a Re-Entry Permit). Anybody wanting to extend their stay in Thailand, has to apply for an extension of stay at their local Imm Office, and in that case they will be confronted with the TM30 regulation as Thai Immigration requires that you provide and regularly confirm your ‘official address for immigration purposes’. And of course, when relocating to a different address your local Imm Office needs to be notified of that change of address. = = = When you are staying in Thailand on a VisaExempt or Tourist Visa and want to extend your stay, you can apply for the one-time per entry ‘regular’ 30-day extension of stay. On a VisaExempt or Tourist Visa entry you are free to stay wherever you want in Thailand, and so it is logical that you can apply for the ‘regular’ 30-day extension of stay at ANY Immigration Office in Thailand. However, Immigration would want you to provide together with the filled-in TM-7 form to apply for the extension, also a TM-30 notification, stating that the place where you are staying has notified the Imm Office of your stay within 24 hours of your arrival. When staying in a Hotel/Guesthouse, it is just a matter of requesting the reception staff to provide you with that TM30 notification, which by Thai law they are required to make of every foreigner staying at their premisses. It is the reason why Hotels/Guesthouses will ask for your passport, as they need the passport-number, to fill-in that notification on the IO TM30 website. Note: In the unlikely case that your hotel/guesthouse is not willing to provide you with that TM30 notification, even after you explained that you would need it for your extension application, you can simply take a Hotel business-card with you when going to Immigration so that Immigration can contact them about it.

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Your best option is to do a border-bounce today or tomorrow - the day of your Permit to stay expiry. Do provide the info where you are currently staying, and how long you plan to stay in Thailand, so that posters can provide you with advice on what would work out best for you.

You are correct, it is officially 30 US $. When taking the Chong Sa Ngam/Anlong Veng border-crossing, I paid with a 50 US $ note but I don't recall whether I got any change back, so it's well possible that the friendly Cambodian officer did hand me the change.

An alternative is to take the Chong Sa Ngam/Anlong Veng border-crossing, which is only 60 km from Chong Chom. I have used that Chong Sa Ngam border-crossing many times and it was never busy. Which is also logical as it is in the 'middle of nowhere', and you will wonder whether you are on the right road because it is relatively deserted. Some 10-15 kms before you arrive at the actual border-crossing you will pass a parking and rest area with a breathtaking view over the area. Worth a stop! On arrival at the border-crossing, there is a large vehicle parking space. After being stamped out by Thai border-immigration, you cross the small 'No Man's land' to the Cambodian Imm Office, where you buy a Cambodian Visa on entry. It costs 50 US $ but they also accept Thai bath (but obviously not very good exchange rate). Previously you needed also 1 or 2 passport photos, but last time I was there they had the automatic picture taker (but in case it is broken, might still be useful to take passport photos with you). The Cambodian Imm Officer will probably ask you whether you want to return immediately to Thailand (there is no charge for doing so). You can do so, but it's worth staying half-hour or so to check out the shops on the Cambodian site, that have amazing deals of beautiful and super-cheap woodwork, as well as cheap cigarettes (200 THB for 10 packages of 20 smokes - all brands available).

Public Health officials in several other European countries are also starting to 'change their tune' w.r.t. recommending covid-19 vaccination. Last week Switzerland quietly did stop recommending covid-19 vaccination for ALL age groups. And England already withdrew its booster recommendations for healthy individuals below 50. Denmark did the same last year. https://www.medicaldaily.com/switzerland-no-longer-recommends-covid-19-vaccination-heres-why-469321

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Dark Versus Light - The battle within our minds https://nicholascreed.substack.com/p/light-versus-dark?utm_source=substack&utm_medium=email A beautiful, very personal and worthwhile reflection on the benefits of meditation. Article written by Nicholas Creed who describes himself as a Bangkok-based journalistic dissident, and who only recently found out how meditation helped him to regain mental control in these trying times that can easily lead to despair. His free Substack Creed Speech is worth subscribing to and highly recommended.

When entering on a 60-day Tourist Visa or on a 6 month Multi-Entry tourist Visa and wanting to stay more than 90 days, you would always have to do a border-bounce. As dr Jack suggested you could even take a flight to Vietnam, and combine the necessary Thailand-exit with a short or longer holiday trip abroad. Visiting the Angkor Wat in SiemReap, Cambodia is also an attractive option to do that necessary border-bounce (there are many direct flights from Suvarnabhumi to SiemReap). Note: Be aware that when doing a border-bounce you would lose any remaining days on your Permit to stay, so it is recommended to do it in the final days of that Permit. This is not the case when applying for a 30-day extension of stay at any Immigration Office as the 30 days would then simply be added to your Permit to stay expiry date.

You could also consider taking the Chong Sa Ngam/Anlong Veng border-crossing, which is only 60 km from Chong Chom. I have used that Chong Sa Ngam border-crossing many times. It is in the 'middle of nowhere', and you will wonder whether you are on the right road because it is relatively deserted. Some 10-15 kms before you arrive at the actual border-crossing you will pass a parking and rest area with a breathtaking view over the area. Worth a stop! On arrival at the border-crossing, there is a large vehicle parking space. After being stamped out by Thai border-immigration, you cross the small 'No Man's land' to the cambodian Imm Office, where you buy a Cambodian Visa on entry. I costs 50 US $ but they also accept Thai bath (but obviously not very good exchange rate). Previously you needed also 1 or 2 passport photos, but last time I was there they had the automatic picture taker (but in case it is broken, might still be useful to take passport photos with you). The Cambodian Imm Officer will probably ask you whether you want to return immediately to Thailand (there is no charge for doing so). You can do so, but it's worth staying half-hour or so to check out the shops on the Cambodian site, that have amazing deals of beautiful and super-cheap woodwork, as well as cheap cigarettes (200 THB for 10 packages of 20 smokes - all brands available).

I have a somewhat similar issue now. Our puppy dog got hold of my passport, which I stupidly left on the table. Luckily the ID-page and pages with stamps are still pristine. It is only part of the backcover and the last - not used - 12 pages that are damaged. And it is glaringly obvious from the damage that it was indeed our dog that did the damage. I was planning to fly to my home-country Belgium in 2 months. And obviously I will apply for a new passport immediately on arrival there. But I am still a bit worried - in spite of Richard_Smith237's re-assuring post (see quote) - that I might encounter difficulties when presenting that damaged passport to 1 - check-in on my flight to Belgium and 2 - to Thai border-immigration for being stamped out. Of course I will tell them that I will immediately apply for a new passport on arrival in Belgium. Any advice on how to proceed to limit the risk of me encountering difficulties on exiting Thailand would be welcome. Thanks!

1, The METV is a 6-month Multiple Entry Tourist Visa, which will provide you on entry in Thailand with a Permit to stay of 60 days. And you can extend those 60 days by either applying for a one-time per entry 30 days extension at any Immigration Office (costs 1.900,- THB) or exit Thailand to a neighboring country and then return (either immediately or after a holiday there) which will once again provide you with a 60 days Permit to stay on entry. You can get 9 months of stay out of such an METV, by re-entering Thailand on the last day of the 6-months Visa validity, and you will be stamped in again for 60 days Permit to stay, which can be extended with an additional 30 days at any Immigration Office. 2. The SETV is a 60-days Tourist Visa. And you can extend those 60 days by either applying for a one-time per entry 30 days extension at any Immigration Office (costs 1.900,- THB) or exit Thailand to a neighboring country and then return (either immediately or after a holiday there). Contrary to the METV which will provide you again with a 60-days Permit to stay as long as the 6-months Visa is still valid, re-entering after having left when you had an SETV, will only provide you with a 30 days Permit to stay when doing a VisaExempt (wihout Visa) entry. And that 30 days can be extended with an additional 30 days at any Immigration Office. You can repeat that bourder-bounce process two times per calendar year when using land-borders (there is no limit when entering by air). However you might encounter difficulties and scrutiny by Thai border-immigration when doing it more than two times (but it's not impossible). >> If you intend to stay 4 months or less in Thailand the SETV would probably be your best option, as the application requirements for it are lower than for the METV.

#1 - I did make use of an on-line onward-flight ticket reservation service. I ordered that onward flight-ticket the day before departing to Thailand VisaExempt. When I entered my creditcard-details for the 12 US $ fee, I received within 5 minutes in my e-mail the ticket with the itinerary I had chosen. I used Onwardticket.com and the process to order is very easy and answers any questions you might have. #2 - When you obtained a 90-day Non Imm O marriage Visa in Laos, you can apply for the 1-year extension of that Visa at your local Imm Office from 30 or 45 days prior to expiry (but when there are special circumstances - e.g. travel - some Imm Offices have done it earlier too). And it can be done up to last day of your Permit to stay, but better don't do that in case your application would be incomplete and you need to get hold of the missing documentation. You don't lose any days from your Visa when applying for the 1-year extension, so basically just do it at a time convenient for you in the 4 weeks prior to expiry.