Housemaster how to do

[keeniau96]

My wife owns our house in Phuket, with chanote and blue tabien baan. We are registered with proper Thai marriage, she is from long-ago Phuket working/fishing family, I am USA citizen with 14 years of retirement visa and extensions, all current and valid. Now my daughter (USA citizen) came to visit on visa-exempt and to stay for a month or so. What do we have to do at Immigration? TM30? I have never submitted such for my own many years here. 

[Peterw42]

I wouldn't worry about any immigration reporting for a month stay, it would only come into play if your daughter intends to later go to immigration for an extension etc. 

[skatewash]

Following the letter of the law, your wife should do for your daughter what she should have been doing for you.  That is, file a TM-30 with the immigration office, informing them that a foreigner is staying in her house.  This has been the law for a long time, however, many immigration offices have only recently started to rigorously enforce it.

 

However, I completely agree with Peter, that as a practical matter you could safely ignore this legal obligation to report your daughter (unless she will have business with the immigration office - such as requesting an extension of stay).  Showing up at the immigration office is when this particular obligation can be checked and enforced.  If she will not be doing any business at the immigration office (which is likely to be the case for someone only staying a month), then you really don't have to worry about doing any reporting in her case.

You, however, are a different matter as you have ongoing business at the immigration office when you do your 90 Day Reports, request your annual extension of stay due to retirement, and if you ever require certificates of residence (say for a driver's license or to register a vehicle).  Your wife (or you) should have filed a TM-30 for yourself at immigration.  You may very well have done so, I'm just reacting to your last statement about "never having submitted such for my own many years here."  I guess that could mean you've never submitted such for visitors to your wife's home before, but there should have been a submission for you.  Possible fines of up to 2,000 Baht are possible for not doing a TM-30 submission.

 

Enforcement of this provision may have been lax in previous years, but I think the trend is clear that it is being enforced now.  If you haven't done so for yourself, my advice would be to do so now.  If you haven't been doing 90 Day reports, I would start doing those, too.  It could be that you already are, but in case you are not, I thought it should be mentioned.  Also, if you are not doing it it's somewhat puzzling as to how you received your recent extensions of stay due to retirement.  Did you use an agent, or do it yourself at the immigration office?