Lost my TM6

[pieeyed]

I need to do my 90 day report and cannot find my TM6 Departure card. Can I just go to Jomtien Imm and get it sorted? I did a land border crossing at Aranyaprathet. Thanks in advance.

[Jip99]

Yes.

 

You will appreciate that you are not the first person that this has happened to.

[pieeyed]

Okay thank you. Jip99. Would have been so much easier to do online, especially going to Jomtien right after New Year.

[brewsterbudgen]

The new TM6 is much smaller so this is likely to happen more frequently.

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[Tanoshi]

4 hours ago, brewsterbudgen said:

The new TM6 is much smaller so this is likely to happen more frequently.

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Staples are still the same size  

[brewsterbudgen]

Staples are still the same size  

That's if it's stapled, which they no longer do at the airport[emoji4]

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[pennine]

I lost mine too, so just wrote "lost" on 90 day form and extension of stay and had no problem.

[bbz404]

52 minutes ago, brewsterbudgen said:

That's if it's stapled, which they no longer do at the airport

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You could staple it yourself once arriving at home.

[brewsterbudgen]

You could staple it yourself once arriving at home.

Outrageous. It should be part of the service. What is the world, or rather Thai Immigration, coming too? They'll be expecting me to stamp my own passport soon.

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[pieeyed]

I will try to put lost on the 90 day online application form and see what happens.

[ubonjoe]

29 minutes ago, pieeyed said:

I will try to put lost on the 90 day online application form and see what happens.

That will not work. The system uses the number to find your records.

Don't you have the number for your TM6. That is all you need.

 

[laislica]

What not got a smart phone?
Take a photo of the TM 6 along with your entry stamps and PP picture page etc.....

21st century paperwork LOL

Could also be useful later cos, generally always have your phone with you but not necessarily your PP?

[Moti24]

You need to report it to the police.  They'll fill-out a form, just attach it to your passport.  You'll need the police form when you leave Thailand.

[Purdey]

Went to Vietnam last week via Don Meuang and they stapled it into my passport. It was a bit rumpled when I returned but acceptable nontheless.

By the way, the passport machines don't work for foreign passports at DM, except for Singapore passports. 

[Russell17au]

If you have a scanner/printer then scan all your documents including your passport and that way if anything happens and you cannot find something then you can just print another one.

[ubonjoe]

13 hours ago, Moti24 said:

You need to report it to the police.  They'll fill-out a form, just attach it to your passport.  You'll need the police form when you leave Thailand.

Reporting it lost to the police is not needed. Just fill out a new one before leaving the country or go to immigration for a new one,

[Moti24]

1 hour ago, ubonjoe said:

Reporting it lost to the police is not needed. Just fill out a new one before leaving the country or go to immigration for a new one,

No doubt you know more about this subject than I.  However, that's exactly what I had to do when my TM6 was mislaid by the administrative staff at a school when they did my 90 day reporting, and it was immigration that told me to do so.  If the rules have changed over the past few years, OK!  But, you know what it's like here, immigration offices have their own rules.  TiT!

[ubonjoe]

38 minutes ago, Moti24 said:

No doubt you know more about this subject than I.  However, that's exactly what I had to do when my TM6 was mislaid by the administrative staff at a school when they did my 90 day reporting, and it was immigration that told me to do so.  If the rules have changed over the past few years, OK!  But, you know what it's like here, immigration offices have their own rules.  TiT!

At most immigration offices they do not require the police report for a lost TM6 now.

The police report has never been needed when leaving the country. Just get a new TM6 form at the check in desk for your flight and complete it.

[Tanoshi]

I have to concur with Moti24.

My son lost his TM6 during a visit 2 years ago.

I took him to the local Immigration office who insisted they needed a Police report.

On returning they found his entry details and issued a 'receipt' (not another TM6 card) with his personal details and his TM6 number.

He had no problem leaving the Country.

 

I fail to see how completing a new TM6 at departure would work, as the number of a new TM6 would not match the number on which you entered. There would be no record of entry when swiping the barcode of a newly completed TM6 departure card.

 

 

[brewsterbudgen]

There must be 100s of people turning up for flights without a TM6. I doubt they're turned away from checking in because they don't have a police report. Check-in staff have spare TM6s exactly for this purpose.

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[ubonjoe]

9 minutes ago, Tanoshi said:

I have to concur with Moti24.

My son lost his TM6 during a visit 2 years ago.

I took him to the local Immigration office who insisted they needed a Police report.

On returning they found his entry details and issued a 'receipt' (not another TM6 card) with his personal details and his TM6 number.

He had no problem leaving the Country.

I fail to see how completing a new TM6 at departure would work, as the number of a new TM6 would not match the number on which you entered. There would be no record of entry when swiping the barcode of a newly completed TM6 departure card.

 

Just a pedant immigration office wanting a police report. The ones that want one are doing as a punishment for loosing it.

I have observed an immigration officer opening a drawer to get a blank TM6 card and giving it to a person to complete.

I have also seen it done the way I wrote at an airport. Immigration do not consider the the TM6 number all that important now.

I think immigration would swipe the passport now instead of the TM6 card. My ancient TM6 card does not have a bar code on it.

[Tanoshi]

4 minutes ago, ubonjoe said:

Just a pedant immigration office wanting a police report. The ones that want one are doing as a punishment for loosing it.

That was the impression I got. You make work for me, I'll make work for you.

 

6 minutes ago, ubonjoe said:

Immigration do not consider the the TM6 number all that important now.

You can't make an online 90 day report without it, so it must still have some relevance.

[ubonjoe]

13 minutes ago, Tanoshi said:

You can't make an online 90 day report without it, so it must still have some relevance.

That is just one of multiple checks done when submitting the first page of the application to find your records and to confirm your identity.

Immigration should have TM6 forms without a number on them so they could write in the old number instead of doing one with a number on it already.

[Tanoshi]

17 minutes ago, ubonjoe said:

Immigration should have TM6 forms without a number on them so they could write in the old number instead of doing one with a number on it already.

They had a book dedicated to reporting and replacing the TM6.

The receipt had your personal details and your original TM6 entry number noted and a copy was kept in their book.

 

Wish I'd copied it now to post.

[sandyf]

On 1/3/2018 at 7:24 AM, brewsterbudgen said:

The new TM6 is much smaller so this is likely to happen more frequently.

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When I came back from Bali a couple of weeks ago the TM6 was identical to the ones I have always used, I always carry a spare. As far as I could see the only difference between my spare and the one I used was the date in the corner, one was 4.6.13 and the other 3.6.17.

That was DM, must be running late on the changeover.

[brewsterbudgen]

When I came back from Bali a couple of weeks ago the TM6 was identical to the ones I have always used, I always carry a spare. As far as I could see the only difference between my spare and the one I used was the date in the corner, one was 4.6.13 and the other 3.6.17.
That was DM, must be running late on the changeover.

We were given the new ones on our EVA flight, for the first time on 1 January. The bit that you have to keep in your passport is much smaller.

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[pieeyed]

Well I wrote lost on the online 90 day application and they told me to report to immigration. So putting lost on the form certainly does not work.

[sandyf]

15 hours ago, brewsterbudgen said:

We were given the new ones on our EVA flight, for the first time on 1 January. The bit that you have to keep in your passport is much smaller.

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The actual change was some time ago, end of Sept I think. We took our niece to airport on 26th Oct and at check-in I noticed she had already completed the TM6 and I said I think they have changed and may have to get another. I had seen a notice on the wall and she read it and threw her TM6 in the bin and said Thais do not use them anymore. When I came back from Bali I was keeping an eye out for the new one but didn't see any, could be changing over as stock runs out.

[pieeyed]

Went Jomtien Imm today to do my 90 day report. Told them I lost my TM6, they said no problem. Just said get another one from a airline when leaving again. The draw back is I have to report to Immigration again as I still do not have a TM6 number.

[ubonjoe]

22 minutes ago, pieeyed said:

The draw back is I have to report to Immigration again as I still do not have a TM6 number.

They probably don't care since they have your TM6 number in their records.