BrandonJT

You will be pre-cleared by the agent's contacts at the airport. They will have already sent your passport information to the contact and will get approval from that contact along with the price to get you in. You will have to upload a photo of yourself shortly before arriving. You will then meet an immigration officer before you get to immigration (hence the photo) and they will walk you through the Fast Track area, open a new window just for you, and stamp you in. This will all be arranged before your arrival. If the agent cannot do it, they will not accept your case.

There's no problem with the online system. It's their policy that the first report when returning to Thailand must be in person, not any issue with the online system. Bangkok can reliably be submitted by mail. The response is very long, but it will come eventually as long as it is postmarked 14 days before your due date.

Based on what I've heard from the agency that is running https://tdac.agents.co.th/ this is actually not uncommon. They were getting this about 1 in 500 entries. But as you said, the e-mail contains the correct information and you'll be okay using your TDAC that you received by e-mail. Typical Thai IT....

@ThaiVisaCentre is now offering safe entry for 2000 baht, or if your case proves to be a difficult one, it's 4000 baht. You would fill out their entry form, and then in the addons after you proceed to the next page you would choose the appropriate option. https://tdac.agents.co.th/

If you're in the final process of getting an LTR, I wouldn't start playing games with agents. The LTR is too valuable to risk screwing that up now.

Yes, there are immigration offices that will send you back to the TM30 desk to get a fresh copy of "their" TM30, even if you have one generated from the official TM30 system. Makes no sense, but TiT.

They do have them in their system, but whether or not they bother to check is another matter. When they deal with people all day that are either entering visa exempt (no visa) or people with a visa that hand it to them, they stop checking every single person in the system about having a visa or not. Especially if it's busy. That's why everyone who has a visa should print it out and hand it over with their passport. To do otherwise is just to invite mistakes.

It's been that amount for years at an airport. Based on what many people have reported as well as multiple embassy websites have posted.

At airports, it's 10,000 per person, 20,000 per family if you are entering "Visa on Arrival" where you apply for and pay for a 15-day visa at the airport. If you are arriving "visa exempt" it's 20,000 per person or 40,000 per family. At land borders, it's generally 10,000 per person.

The system that sends the e-mails has no idea that you left the country. It's simply set to e-mail you 90 days after your previous online submission.

Except this post isn't about marriage extensions. It's about education extensions, which you DO have to cancel.

The BOI LTR website has a list of approved agents for work with the BOI. But as far as "do everything for you." The only thing they can do is take the information that you have to gather yourself and submit it on your behalf. You still have to get all the information, as the agent won't have access to your bank accounts, your work and tax records, etc.

I'm not sure how you got to page 10 of a thread where it's indicated time and time and time again that you can ONLY DO IT WITHIN 3 DAYS OF ARRIVAL.

You are making way more out of it than necessary. There are people that NEVER do 90-day reports and just pay 2000 baht fine every year at the time of their extension.

This is all correct. But you must be careful with this. It does not get added to the end of your stamp like the previous extension. The 7 days will start the day you apply. So you can't do it early or you won't gain anything.

ALL land borders with Myanmar are closed to foreigners for many years. Including Mae Sai, or any crossing in Kanchanaburi.

Then people who don't do so and don't check their stamp assuming that the immigration just magically knows they have a visa, can enjoy the trip back to the airport to get it fixed.

They don't send them back. They instead give them the incorrect entry stamp (visa exempt) and then they have to go back to the airport to get it fixed. All because they didn't hand over the visa when they arrived as the e-visa site tells them to.

And the airports are even riskier than the land borders!

What's irrational about it? If you're in the office they need to attend to you immediately. If they are not busy, they can process the online submissions, which are also processed by someone in your local immigration office. Those can wait, while people in the office are the priority for them.

A point of correction, immigration decides where you fly back to. They have the decision to let you fly wherever you want, to make you fly back to the country your flight originated from, or to make you fly back to your passport country. Depends on their mood, and probably your demeanor as well.

That's because there is no more appointment booking system. ALL Thai embassies are now on the official Thai e-visa system. No appointment involved. You apply online, go to the embassy during designated hours and pay, and then wait for your visa.

There are indications that the TDAC may become a required piece of information for future extensions or applications, similar to how you used to need a copy of your TM6 card. The BOI recently posted a guide on transferring your visa to a new passport, and one of the requirements was a copy of your TDAC if you entered on or after May 1st.

There is no new digital visa. There is a new digital arrival card, that replaces the paper form you used to get on the airplane. It does not ask a single difficult question. If you cannot provide answers to the handful of questions they ask, you probably shouldn't be traveling outside of your home country.

Except they ARE the same system. A LOCAL immigration officer sits in front of a computer and processes the online TM47, EXACTLY THE SAME as if you were standing in front of them at the immigration office.