I'm currently staying in Udon Thani, and am now staying in a house which my gf has rented, i'm here on a visa exemption.

As i'm aware by reading this forum the house owner has to file a TM30, because i stay here.

So we asked the house owner to fill the TM30 form and give us a copy of her ID card and house book, then i would take it to the immigration by myself, because she has to work while the immigration is open.

My expectation at this point was, that every time when i stayed somewhere else we would have to file a TM30 to the immigration again.

So i took the papers to the immigration, quite quickly and friendly as i always experienced it here, and handed them over the papers that i had.

He then asked me for my passport, looked at it, and made copies of the first page and my departure card.

Then he asked me to fill out a TM28 form, i did as he requested, and then he was happy and said i was done. He attached the receipts from the TM30 and TM28 to my passport.

I asked him why i had to fill out this TM28 form, i expected that every time i stay somewhere else i have to give them a TM30.

Then he told me he needs the TM30 only once. If i stay somewhere else, and then stay at this house again i should just file a TM28 and the copy of my passport and departure card.

Is this some Udon Thani speciality, or Is it like this in other provinces too?

1 hour ago, jackdd said:

... he told me he needs the TM30 only once. If i stay somewhere else, and then stay at this house again i should just file a TM28 and the copy of my passport and departure card.

This actually makes more sense, as to meeting the original intent of the Acts for these two processes.  Them TM-28 was *always* supposed to be the foreigner's responsibility - and no way a landlord would know when you left and returned, after the initial "move in" report.

 

This would not be so nice if I had to fill out a TM-28 in each Thai city I visited while traveling, but hopefully just a "report TM-28 on return" requirement - makes much more sense than a TM-30 for this.

Edited January 12, 20188 yr by JackThompson

I agree. If reporting every time you return to the same address makes any sense at all, it ought to be done by the foreigner himself (thus a TM28). Expecting the house owner to be aware of your movements every day is just ridiculous.

I have a friend transiting Bangkok to and from Cambodia soon, he is a British citizen. I don’t think he will be bothering to tell Immigration that he stayed one night downtown Bangkok then stayed three nights in a hotel in the Chatuchak area, tourists just don’t do that sort of thing.


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I was thinking about this again... Nearly always when i stay at a hotel they have these small papers where they ask me to put my details and sign it, and they also take a copy of the passport. Maybe this paper at the hotel acts as a TM28 and they submit it for you? So if you stay at hotels you don't have to do this, if you stay at a friends place you would technically have to submit a TM28 there and your friend would have to submit a TM30, and upon returning to your own home you would have to submit a TM28 again. Of course in reality nobody would do this (if you never tell them that you left, they don't expect one when returning...), unless your friend is in another province and you plan to get an extension or whatever at the immigration there.

Edited January 13, 20188 yr by jackdd