Mattd

@Johng, 

There is no name change, it will be just an address change from one Chonburi address to another Chonburi address, the vehicle was registered in to my name from new, since the finance is now paid off I now want to put it in to my residential address as opposed to a previous Company address.

Just seems illogical that Bangkok DLT accepted the car as registered to a Chonburi address originally, but now won't accept a change of address within the same province.

Would also question how those that buy the enormously expensive private plates could ever manage to register them to another province address??

Many years ago I did change a BKK plated car to Chonburi, not an expensive process, but took ages to do, several trips and a total PITA, not very practical whilst employed and seems totally unnecessary, I know for a fact several dealers in the Chonburi area offer Bangkok plates to their customers.

I am in a similar situation, I recently cleared the finance on my car and need to get it registered in my name.

The car is currently on Bangkok plates.

I've got a non-immigrant B extension of stay, which was issued by CW immigration Bangkok, as I work Mon - Fri in Bangkok, however, the address that I want to register the vehicle in is in Chonburi province.

My two options for the residency certificate are to get one from the British Embassy, or one from Thai immigration in Jomtien, Chonburi.

The British Embassy cannot give me an appointment before 15th November 2016 for this.

BMW finance are saying that DLT Bangkok will require me to re-register the car with Chonburi DLT if I give a Chonburi address, as they assume it will be driven in Chonburi province. (in reality it probably works out as 50% in both Bangkok and Chonburi due to work!!)

Quoting BMW Finance after asking if it will be any issues supplying a Chonburi address for registration purposes: 

'LTD office in Bangkok will accept this issue but they will assume that this car will use in Chonburi. So, the plate of Bangkok will be invalid automatically, you have to get the new plate in Chonburi after you get the registration book from us.'

I was under the impression that this was a thing of the past due to the computerisation of car registrations? Certainly can purchase the road tax in any province these days.

When the car was originally purchased on finance, then they used my work permit at that time (no longer work for the same company) and as far as I can see the car is registered in my name using the then company address, which was in Laem Chabang, Chonburi province, so that sort of negates the argument that Bangkok DLT won't allow this!!! (The speeding ticket came to that company address )

Anybody know if it is an absolute DLT requirement to change the registration plate to the province the car is registered in?

Will do it if I absolutely have to, just a PITA to do whilst working etc.

12 hours ago, Golden Triangle said:

 

In a perfect world the authorities would allow you to register 2 addresses, your weekday work details and your permanent weekend address, unfortunately the (Thai) world is less than perfect, have you considered trying to discuss this with immigration to see if they can suggest a solution ?

Actually I am going to need to go to Jomtien Immigration in the next few days and thinking of doing just that, the sensible solution would be as you suggest,  let's see!

Bahtboy, thanks for the reply, so no mention or request for the TM30 receipt from immigration, or did you have this?

I'm also a little concerned regarding the fact that my extension of stay was issued by immigration at CW Bangkok, they might ask why I need a residency certificate for Chonburi region in this case, suppose the only way to find out is to go and try!

I know this has been asked in other ways before, just need an update on how immigration are handling these.

I need to get the blue book for my car updated from the finance company to myself, with all the latest going on with TM30 & TM28 etc. then what documents are Jomtien Immigration requiring for issuing a Residence Certificate nowadays?

My situation is perhaps a little more complicated than most, in that I work in Bangkok weekdays, then reside in Pong area at the weekends, the work permit has a Bangkok address in it and I do not want to use this as it is a temporary address, so therefore I need to get the car registered to the address in Pong.

I can show AIS or SCB documents in my name and the Pong address no worries, however, the extension of stay in my passport etc. were done at CW in Bangkok, which makes the TM30 / TM28 side a little problematic in Chonburi region!!!

Anyone got a residence certificate off Jomtien Immigration in the last week or so and if so, what did they need to see?

As a footnote to this post and just for advice for those for whom it may concern.

A few years back I had cause to ask DVLA with regards to UK / Thai driving licenses and the use of either on UK roads, this is because my UK license is the old paper version with an old UK address of where I was living in the UK prior to moving to Thailand in 1989.

Basically, a UK driving license, regardless if paper or plastic type, must have the current UK address of the holder and this must be verifiable, the big rental companies do this by way of the electoral role.

As I am no longer registered on the UK electoral role and have no UK abode, then I cannot legally use the UK license to drive on UK roads, it is an offence to do so, even if you do actually reside in UK and the address on the license has not been updated.

The advice from DVLA to me was that I had to use the Thai license for renting a vehicle, which I have done loads of times for visits to the UK, never had a problem, in fact a Europcar rep, when renting out of Manchester airport one time, did tell me that had I not presented the Thai license then she would not have been able to rent the car to me, she did check my UK license on her system at my request, as a matter of interest.

Never been asked for proof of address using the Thai license, just a contact telephone number.

You can use the Thai license to drive in the UK for up to one year, expats returning to the UK technically have to be resident for 2 years in order to get their old UK licenses upgraded to the plastic photo ID type, not yet worked out how to make up that missing one year should I ever go back to live, suppose one could register on the electoral role one year earlier, if have enough notice of moving, otherwise, there must be another way, just not sure how!

Little point in building it then really in that case, yes, the floods are not often, however, much better to build a bridge!

In light of the floods that always happen in the South road / Sukhumvit junction area, then It is going to be very interesting to see how the engineers eventually tackle building the tunnel that is proposed for there at a later date, now this will not be easy from a flooding POV!

Amari Garden Resort entrance is as you describe it, the Ocean entrance is next to the Tavern by the Sea on Beach Road, can actually get to the Garden Resort via this as well.

OP, not sure if this is of any help, but the Thai Embassy in Singapore will, according to their website, only issue the One Year ME Non Imm B visa for exactly your purposes.

Thai Embassy Singapore Non B Requirements

Of course, no guaranteeing it is up to date, so would be worth contacting them first.

Just noticed they do need the documents of current employer in Singapore, so this might not fly, would still contact and ask though.

I'd have thought that the most important issue is who, from the Thai authorities POV, has the legal guardianship of your daughter whilst she lives in Thailand?

When you divorced custody must have been given to somebody?

If the legal guardians are the grand parents whilst she is in Thailand, then they can give the permission for her to leave Thailand.

I work at All Seasons place in Bangkok and indulge in the nasty habit of smoking!

Over the last couple of days there has been some sort of convention involving the Tourist Police at the Conrad hotel, they tend to park their cars on the back road of the complex, which happens to be in the same location as one of the smoking areas.

Over the last two days, there have been two white BMW 520d saloon cars parked on this back road, with the occupants attending this seminar, nothing strange about this, except the registration numbers of these BMW's, one was BE01 and the other IT01, no Thai lettering, no province, no official lettering / numbering to indicate a foreign diplomat etc. White background, black letters / numbers as per normal vehicles.

On the back windscreen of each vehicle was a sticker, BE01 was BE Minister and IT01 was IT minister, both vehicles were supplied by BMW Thailand (not a BMW dealer) according to the plate holders.

Checked whether these ministries exist in Thailand and seemingly not.

Not important, just intrigued, anybody any idea who these cars belong to persay?

The laws regarding the TM30 and TM28 are relatively simple, however, complying with them in some cases is not!

TM30 - Up to the householder or their representative to fill in and report to immigration within 24 hours of the 'alien' residing.

TM28 - The long term 'alien' should give this to immigration to register that this is their permanent address, it should tally up with a TM30 somewhere along the line, it is not intended for tourists, it is for the 'alien' that is staying in Thailand long term, either working, retired or for whatever reason. i.e. somebody on a non-immigrant visa, who is doing yearly extensions and 90 day reports etc.

The problems arise, as has been mentioned before, when somebody like me has a residence in one province and works in another Monday - Friday.

Which address do you report as your permanent one on the TM28......?? (in my case, the children live at the weekend address and I consider this to be my actual home)

in this case, then a TM30 should technically be submitted twice per week, one for the weekend address (who simply cannot comply with the 24 hour rule due to the weekend!!) and one for the residence for the work period.

In my case, the weekend one would be relatively easy, albeit a PITA if weekly.

The weekday one would rely on my landlord doing this every week, this is a Thai guy that works all over the world and isn't here often, plus his wife has a young family to look after, so not exactly practical to actually do in reality.

Like kittenKong, I've been living in Thailand for close to 27 years and didn't actually realise this was all necessary until recently, it has all come in to the forefront due to the Bangkok bombing, since which there are several cases of people being fined, not being able to get residency letters from immigration etc. certainly not isolated cases now.

Like most things in life, to achieve compliance it is far better to make the compliance as easy as possible, I for one would much prefer to do things by the book, however, given the number of reports that would have to be done over the course of one year and the number of people it inconveniences, (not just me, if it was only me, then it wouldn't be so bad), then compliance is really not as easy as it might be in other cases, I'm certainly not the only one in this situation, hundreds, if not thousands are.

Everybody has to put an address on the TM.6 upon arrival in to Thailand, I'm quite sure that immigration do not have a system that can physically check that address against a TM30 report that, in theory, should be submitted within 24 hours of the arrival in to Thailand, it would be an administrative nightmare!

Long termers must also put an address on a TM47 when reporting for the 90 days.

So immigration basically get a long term person's address several times by several means.....

Tourists may well change hotels or accommodation several times in a holiday, yes, the hotel may be complying by reporting, but imagine trying to track it all.

Is any of this information actually being put in to a centralised immigration database???

Regarding the hotels reporting, I'm not entirely convinced that they all do, I've have stayed in several nice, big chain hotels in Bangkok and have only ever checked in using my Thai drivers license, not only does that not give them the TM6 number (a part of the reporting requirement) up until August last year, it had the wrong passport number on it for about 3 years!!!!

Surely it wouldn't make any difference whether it was 30 day visa exempt or a visa of any type?

1. Arrival and entry with a visa exempt stamp, duration allowed in to Thailand would equal the validity of the passport, assuming the IO notes the passport expiry date whilst processing the entry.

2. Even with a prior visa, then the entry stamp would only be valid for the duration of his passport, as would the visa itself.

So, really, at the end of the day it is a no brainer, his passport has to be renewed before travelling, if he is in the UK, then as others have pointed out, this can be done in less than a day, so long as he is prepared to pay for it.

Actually, I read it such that he has not yet travelled to Thailand, so not yet entered, however, he is proposing to take a trip to here and the timing of that trip is such that his passport will expire 10 days prior to his planned departure from Thailand, so passport will be valid upon arrival, won't be valid upon departure and therefore useless.

Simple answer, get a new passport before travelling on the proposed trip.

Worse case, cut the planned visit to be 11 days shorter, option 1 of getting a new passport makes the most sense, why risk it!

Something that seems not to be mentioned is that once the OP applies for an Emergency Travel Document, then his original passport will be cancelled, meaning that his entry stamp in to Laos is cancelled by virtue.

So the OP would need to then got to the Lao immigration and get an exit visa.

Below from the UK Embassy Laos website.

'After receiving an ETD, you will need to apply for an exit visa from the Lao Ministry of Foreign Affairs before leaving Laos. This can take up to 3 working days'

Also, OP needs to prepare a detailed travel itinerary prior to applying for the ETD, as per advise on the UK ETD website, plus make an appointment to apply via the website.

https://www.consular-appointments.service.gov.uk/fco/#!/british-embassy-vientiane/issuing-an-emergency-travel-document/slot_picker

I agree with spetersen, lots of disrespectful posts, a young lad has tragically lost his life, as it so happens this boy was killed whilst on his way home after visiting my son, my son is understandably devastated by this.

Those who theorize on whose fault it was and automatically assume it was the motorcyclist fault because he 'slammed in to the side of the pickup' most obviously do not know the road well, if at all. I'm not going to make any judgments on whose fault it was, there is no point, the end result is the same, what I will say, is that it would have been absolutely impossible for the lad to hit the side of the pickup unless the pickup crossed his path somehow, the road is straight in that area and the boy was heading towards Pattaya on this straight piece of road and he did not come out of a side road!! 

RIP Young man, 15 is way too young to leave this life.

The TM.6 departure information does, as stated, have a place to fill in a flight number, in no place does it ask for a date of that flight, so without asking to see the ticket (highly unlikely, I've never been asked in 27+ years of travelling back and to) then the immigration officer would have no way of knowing what date the flight was on and that is even if the information was filled in, most folks arriving do not fill in the departure part, in fact some of the illustrious Asian 'tourists' coming to here don't even bother filling it out even when departing, have been stuck many a time at departure immigration due to this!

The next port part is in the centre part of the TM.6 and this part is rare to be filled out and is only used to gather statistics so to speak.

Totally agree with the majority, the most likely problem will come from the airline at check in.

This is all getting a little ridiculous, I would seriously doubt that any laws have been broken at all, certainly no labour laws.

The building was designed by a foreign company that has office here in Thailand that uses Thai architects, for sure there will have been reviews and input etc. from their head office etc. no single architect designed the building, a team of them did, the Thailand side was done by Thai architects working for a legally registered Thai company, there is absolutely no law that says that a foreign wing of that company cannot consult etc. especially if this is done outside of Thailand.

Below is taken from the company website that designed the building, note who the architects are listed as:

DESIGN TEAM:

DESIGN ARCHITECT:

 Buro Ole Scheeren Group
Buro Ole Scheeren (Thailand) Ltd., Registration no. น.014-58
Hok Lok Siew Design Co., Ltd. (HLS), Registration No. น. 008-54

PARTNER IN CHARGE:

 Ole Scheeren

PARTNER (ADMINISTRATION):

 Eric Chang

MANAGING DIRECTOR:

 Jaturon Kingminghae

REGISTERED ARCHITECTS:

 Wisutr Weerasilp (SA 311), Pisit Chirdkiatisak (PA 2153), Major Poonpien Thiensiri (AA.187), Jaturon Kingminghae (AA. 9854)

The rules for the child to get a Thai passport are quite clear in the MFA website advice, the father must be present at the passport application OR provide a notarised letter of consent, this applies even if the couple are divorced or have never been married and in my experience they are very strict on this. To be sure, I'd also include a notarised copy of the Father's ID card as well, to avoid any possible hiccups.

Thai Passport Guidance

I am not entirely sure if the Thai immigration will require a similar notarised consent for the child to be allowed to leave Thailand, quite possibly, I've no experience in this area though, have travelled several times with both of my children, but their Mother was always present.

12th December? I assume a typo.

Guys,

Almost certainly a lot of the bars etc. will be forced to close tomorrow, this has been the case for some number of years now, it is certainly not written down as one of the official 'no booze' days, as, apart from elections, these are all religious days, however, the 5th Dec seems to have gradually become an unofficial one for whatever reason!

I have fond memories of being in the bars of Walking Street (before it was a Walking Street) on the 5th December and at 8 pm all of the girls used to line up on the edge of the road with their candles etc. no booze ban in place then whatsoever.

I'll lay odds that the bars in the Mapprachan area will be all closed, seems the bars around there close at the drop of a hat in these situations, oh well, a few drinks at home with a take away, do feel for those that do not have that option and are in a hotel etc. especially if here on holiday for a week or so.

If it is anything like the one in Central Bangna, then I think you will be disappointed I'm afraid, very small range of items, can live in hope though

TheCruncher, this was taken off the web http://www.microwaveassociation.org.uk/recipes/recipe.php?id=76

I can only assume it is OK because it is covered by the water.

Back to Basics: How to boil an egg in the microwave oven Recipe Supplied by: Microwave Technologies Association

First and foremost - safety first:

NEVER TRY TO COOK A WHOLE EGG IN IT'S SHELL IN THE MICROWAVE OVEN WITHOUT COVERING IT WITH BOILING WATER OR REMOVING IT FROM IT'S SHELL - IT WILL EXPLODE AND COULD CAUSE DAMAGE TO YOUR OVEN - NOT TO MENTION MAKE A TERRIBLE MESS THAT IS A NIGHTMARE TO CLEAN UP!

So to do it properly:

For each person wrap each egg in aluminium foil and set in a glass or microwave proof cooking container. Pour over enough boiling water to cover all the eggs. Carefully put bowl in the microwave oven, then cook on HIGH power for 3 - 6 minutes, according to how you like your eggs.

After 30 seconds cooking, the water will return to a gentle boil, and cook the eggs, as they do conventionally. 3 minutes will cook the eggs to soft boil stage and 5 - 6 minutes ( according to their size) will cook to a hard boil.

Remove dish from the oven, and quickly run cold water over the eggs, for 1 minute or so. This partially cools the eggs quickly and prevents a black layer from forming around the egg yolk if the eggs have been hard boiled.

Serve immediately with toast for a quick breakfast or lunch, or leave to cool and serve chopped and mixed with mayonnaise for a great sandwich filling.