It may not be immigration- there are teams of officers looking around condominiums to access the implementation of the proposed property tax .

I live in Hot district about every 12 months immigration are in the area just checking that you are living at the address that you have told them until you have been there for a long period then they rarely visit unless they feel like a coffee break. If a farang upsets someone that person may put a complaint in and they come and make sure all the paper work is up to scratch.   

even though I am totally legal, I would definitely just not be around for a couple of hours, personally. I don't want to deal with any unnecessary stress.

20 hours ago, ukrules said:

If everything is in order then you won't have a problem.

On one of my very rare visits to an IO, I had everything in order, but still got accused of having a 25 day overstay. Yes, the boss soon settled it. I would never be too confident about going to a Thailand IO.

Perhaps will be “Friday the 13” for some.

You are legally here, why are you worry?

Often at my condo. Sometimes they turn up with a songtaew. Caught the elevator with 4 of them last time. Not sure what they are upto but never asked me anything before. Also see DSI officers sometimes. Same deal

You only need to worry when they are 'swooping', if they are just standing around it is all Ok.

On 12/13/2019 at 1:55 AM, tom in bangkok said:

Nah, but maybe they're here to plunder the airbnbs in this building.

Yep.  Probably chasing Air B&B condos short rentals.

In Chiang Mai, Immigration is now called into the scene whenever a foreigner dies at home, along with the local police and the service that takes the deceased to the hospital for an autopsy.  Surprised me to see Immigration on the scene when we had a death recently in our condo building of a man in his mid 80s who died of natural causes in his room. 

 

They quite often "work" the sois around the condo building, checking the hostels and guesthouses and visit the office of the condo checking that the TM30s are in order for the residents of the building.  The condo office files TM30s online for the residents, so it's not unusual to see Immigration officers in the building office.

Hah, keep a wad of 1000thb notes in my drawer? Or do the officers accept qr code bank transfers?

I've got a plan already in case things really do hit the fan for no reason.

 

Does this mean that aliens are living illegally? Why panic, if you are 100% legal? Catching illegals are bad?