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If you don't extend your tourist visa/VE in country TM30 status is not checked, other than if they check your address e.g. visit units in a condo during a sweep for e.g. overstayers.

Thai friend told me they put snakeheads in the pond because they grow fast on eating other fish. can hear them striking at first light sometimes.

At CW it is and I think they have linked databases also to check when done online. TM30 seems to be the foundational document now for Imm.

new policy for any transaction at L desk. At extension time I saw the IO go back through bank book to check that I had the required balance when I transferred to new pp a few months previously (even though I would have as it was within last year, but she marked it on photocopy). Policy was not announced and a gentleman in his 70's who had checked the Imm web page for requirements before coming had to go home and come back another time.

Now, if they enforced TM30 with landlords rather than foreigners themselves they would be able to find her.

If they can "just show their Pink card", I am sure there will be a deluge of Pink Card holders coming in to clarify and of course at the same time give away that they have a Pink Card and are thus recognised as residents here or whatever it is they get so superior about. Of course it is still a step down from having your wife make any problem go away by just flashing her Government Employee ID.

Quite possibly BBL did as their mentality is very Khong Raan Chin, but having your visa page checked for everything seems to be a Prayuth era thing. Nobody ever used to, other than some hotels (for those of us who can't "just show our Pink Cards").

This is the point I was trying to make on another thread. If you don't have ID on you things can go very wrong.

Congratulations on living here 30 years and only making 5 posts on AN, especially as you must have come here in your late teens.. On another thread started by you. Hello everyone - I'm new to this site, but I’ve been living in Thailand about 50% of the time since 2018 and have been in a relationship with a wonderful Thai woman (that I met in a yoga class) since around 1.5 years ago. We are both in our late forties.

I wonder if the 1%er tat might help with profiling.

Definitely in the same league as being part of an armed criminal gang.

They are supposed to check for current visa, as are e.g. hospitals. It was mandated during Prayuth govt to hinder people on overstay being able to function in Thailand. I have had one occasion when transacting at a bank where they didn't photocopy visa page, but that was probably an oversight.

I feel like I am increasingly living in police state. It did not used to be like this. It changed while I was here from a free and easy place where they didn't give a damn about us being in Thailand to what it is today. If you had been here 30 years you would see it. As for "Prisoner"? No, but I do feel like someone on parole, I also don't feel comfortable when officials talk about "hunting down" foreigners, or where a special hotline is set up for Thais to report foreigners "acting suspiciously". That said, when I do my extension at CW if I have the documents it is a formality, and staff are pleasant and have never given me any cause for complaint and I am handed back my passport at the end with my new extension in a way that actually makes me feel like I am welcome.

Rejection explanation "Your visa category does not comply with the 90-days notification conditions (tourist)." I have a one year retirement extension. I read no reports of people being able to file using the app with the problems caused by the recent "upgrade" - this is something different from browser problems, it seems there is some kind of data check with wrong info/settings. The house visits are IMO them just being @n@l about tying us on 1 year extensions down to an address - foreigners on one year extensions became very dangerous under the Prayuth government. Some time after 30 days foreigners who stay here become threats to "national security". I don't see why we should be required to let them into our home either. It is overly intrusive IMO and has no justification IMO, unless perhaps there is grounds for suspicion of a sham marriage for visa purposes. In comparison, for the Police to enter a Thai's home requires a court warrant. To me it is indicative of Thai authorities slipping back into what I call a "provincial" mindset.

Apparently they do when you apply for a Non O in country e.g. for a retirement extension and in EVERY case apparently. Not sure they do visits for marriage extensions though.

Not anymore for some of us since the "upgrade" - rejected for BS stated reasons,and it was down for months another time

It is mostly Russian "tourists" that stay more than 180 days.

Well, if they are out with the big black van they might just decide to sort through the nights catch back at Imm rather than go back to the condo of each and everyone everyone they stopped. Thai officialdom does things in a way that suits them not you. I admit I am describing a worst case scenario, but it is possible and not fear mongering.

So long as you have filed your taxes might be a condition in the future - they did it before and did themselves a lot of damage by doing it - high level global experts Thailand needed for its development who could choose their assignment avoided Thailand as "that place that won't let you out without a mountain of paperwork"

Maybe IDC is the BKK holding cell - not the office in the Govt complex which is unlikely. Smaller stations probably have them and I know the OLD arany/poipet border office had them (although not from personal experience)

I was within 15 minutes from my condo when stopped. Oftentimes I don't carry my 'phone, let alone passport. I remember one time I was walking home up my soi and there were a couple of African gentlemen walking slightly ahead of me when a [actually "the"] big black van stops along side them and two IO's jump out of the door onto them and wrestle them to the ground. If I had been walking alongside of them as I overtook them they probably would have jumped on me as well. As I walked past they were going through their passports and they did not stop me. Rethink that 15 minute radius.

Yes possibly that would be the initial step, or go back to your residence for you to produce, but what I suggested is not impossible. Do they have holding cells at CW or is IDC the holding cell. My point was that it COULD go very wrong, not that it automatically would. What I suggested was a possible worst case scenario.

I have seen African gentlemen on a police bike 3 up heading down a soi and I presume they were going back to apartment for them to produce, so yes that possibility exists, but there is no guarantee. The IO's that stopped me had the big black van and it was a fair walk from my condo.

Maybe if they enforced it more with landlords there might be less of these overstayers that worry them so much. Law says property owner must file - enforce the law.

In another report it was mentioned that property owners were fined for not filing TM30 for them. maybe this is where Imm should be pedantic about TM30's - with the property owner not the extension holder. Get out of the office and start kicking some tyres. If they had done that people would not be able to rack up overstays.