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Any first-hand experience - good or bad - to share would be much appreciated. Thanks in advance.

Dear All As a frequent visitor to Thailand I admit I am surprised to be having to ask for help on this topic. But I have spent many mind-numbing hours sitting in the Immigration office (often on the day after a long-haul flight). I have also sometimes used the online reporting option - sometimes successfully, but not always, and never without having to decipher incomprehensible error messages and spending hours doing so. So please tell me if and how I can complete my TM30 by post. (I have a Yellow House book and of course that would make me the "master" as well as an alien who should be logged as visiting the Kingdom.) Many thanks in advance.

Can anyone give me the link to set up an online registration, to avoid the visits to Immigration? (My situation is not that of a condo resident having a landlord, etc.. I have a Yellow Book for the house we own on a 30 year lease.) Thanks.

Looking ahead a little, as a Brit in Chiang Mai on a 60 day tourist visa, and wanting to extend … please share any thoughts or advice. · The standard extension application is for 30 days and you cannot usually get a second 30 days. · There is the possibility of a further 7 days but I think the qualifying criteria is restrictive, and discretionary. · I know there is now the possibility of applying online (for a fee) and it seems an attractive option to save sitting in an Immigration office but any general advice would be appreciated. · As another option (to gain a few more days before returning to the UK) would a trip to Vietnam, for example, before the end of the 30 day extension period make sense on the basis of then re-entering Thailand and getting another 30 days on a visa-exempt basis? Many thanks in anticipation.

Trying to confirm the sense and legitimacy of the following in respect of trying to make the most of a visit to LOS (and after having decided that a visa from the London Embassy is not the way to go, on this occasion) - · Arrive in Thailand (as a Brit) without a visa but get a 30 day permit to stay on a visa-exempt basis · Before the 30 days are up (as opposed to visiting Immigration to get an extension) make a trip to Mai Sai for a same-day land crossing and re-entry – and get another 30 day permit to stay. (Is this correct?) · In due course, and again before the expiry of the second 30 day permit to stay, the plan would then be to either repeat that Mai Sai exercise, or book a return flight to Vietnam and re-enter for another 30 day permit to stay. Would that work? Any advice about the current Mae Sai situation would be appreciated. (I believe for example that land crossings are limited to two per year?) Thanks in advance for any help.

Wife and myself (Brits) were in Thailand in Chiang Mai on Non-Immigrant O visas (retirement and dependent respectively), annually extended for 7 years, but ending in 2020 as a result of being in the UK when covid and lockdown happened. Our status and re-entry permits are of course long-lost and we have to go back to the beginning to recover our previous status. We intend to fly in soon on a tourist basis and take it from there. We are aware that there has been much change over that period relating to Thai immigration. Two specific questions for now - Does the 800k prerequisite bank balance still apply? If it does, is the mandatory period of holding that balance 2 months for the initial application (and 3 months in subsequent years)? Any other advice would also be gratefully received. Thanks in advance.