It's like George Costanza's exploding wallet!  I don't think any other country's Imm offices is so paper happy as Thailand.  The strange "what the f*** is this" looks I get when presenting my passport in airports outside of Thailand is priceless.

 

But if you lose any of them, you will find out how 'useless' they really are.

Just now, NanLaew said:

But if you lose any of them, you will find out how 'useless' they really are.

Well that's the problem.  Since they are all written in Thai, with Thai dates, it's impossible to tell which are necessary and which are not.  From time to time, a kindly Imm officer will take about half of them out for me that aren't important, but somehow they just keep adding up.  It's all just part of living in the "Magic" Kingdom I guess.

The only things stapled in my passport are my TM-6 departure card (getting a bit dog-eared now) and my 90 day report receipt.

 

What else are people getting stapled?

 

Used to take them all out and kept them with the documents for visa renewal.

 

I couldn't see the use of them staying in the passport which I even use rarely.

 

Only when IO involved it is needed for border crossing and extensions. Labour deps, domestic flights, local police and banks never asked for those.

 

Not long ago the size of the departure card (tm6) changed and now that is the only thing that I leave stapled in the passport.

 

No more rabbit ears hanging out the passport, now only one ear as an guinea pig ????

The Non stop request  of signed photocopies of my ID documents for every minor procedure was another reason for me to move on.

Its just like asking for an identity theft. 

i got loads of invoices in my passport when i got my non imm o and extension, I guess they are proving they've done something. I took all mine out

Yeah I got a TM.6 and nothing else.

My 90 day report I print out the approved receipt and it just lives in the little wallet thingo the Aus gumbyment gave me to store my passport.

1 hour ago, WaveHunter said:

Well that's the problem.  Since they are all written in Thai, with Thai dates, it's impossible to tell which are necessary and which are not.  From time to time, a kindly Imm officer will take about half of them out for me that aren't important, but somehow they just keep adding up.  It's all just part of living in the "Magic" Kingdom I guess.

make sure you keep them all because if you don't it will cost you.

and make sure you make copies of each of the papers. 

13 minutes ago, NCC1701A said:

make sure you keep them all because if you don't it will cost you.

and make sure you make copies of each of the papers. 

I agree.  I was posting this more in jest than anything.  I just remember looking at my passport one day and it reminded me of the Seinfeld episode where George Costanza's wallet exploded from all the paper he had jammed inside of it. ????

 

I keep everything, even the stuff the Imm officers take out and say I don't need anymore, and just keep them in a separate envelope. 

2 hours ago, Crossy said:

The only things stapled in my passport are my TM-6 departure card (getting a bit dog-eared now) and my 90 day report receipt.

 

What else are people getting stapled?

 

maybe a tm 30 and that's all that is needed

15 hours ago, NanLaew said:

But if you lose any of them, you will find out how 'useless' they really are.

But how is this handled on arrival / departure if the traveler used the automatic passport gate?

16 hours ago, Crossy said:

The only things stapled in my passport are my TM-6 departure card (getting a bit dog-eared now) and my 90 day report receipt.

 

What else are people getting stapled?

 

  As well as TM 47 and tm30 is stapled and immigration tells me I should staple the receipt for multi entry and visa extension to prove it is real. I actually copied and reduced the last ones as it was getting silly.

I pass the time waiting in immigration lines pulling out all those tiny staples.... something like fidget spinners

I use the old staples from the TM6 to figure out how many times I have been in the airport. Once  I pulled out 55 old staples in a 2 year span... Recently they haven't even bothered stapling it, just shove it in and hope it doesn't get lost.

I unstaple everything and just keep my TM6, 90 day report slip and my TM30 paper clipped in the passport. I have a pink alien ID card which I keep in my wallet and it serves for everything except immigration stuff. Passport stays in the safe until needed to travel outside of Thailand or for immigration use at the immigration office.

Whats the purpose of keeping the TM.30 in your passport ?

Yeah??? I've lived here for 22 yrs and never had anything in my passport when I left the country. Inside Thailand, I only have the TM6.  Maybe you should take a picture to show us what you deal with.

19 hours ago, Crossy said:

The only things stapled in my passport are my TM-6 departure card (getting a bit dog-eared now) and my 90 day report receipt.

 

What else are people getting stapled?

 

My TM-28 and TM-30, too. 

If you travelled to Africa in the 70’s, you ended up with ribbons and wax seals, too.  I could barely close my passport. 

19 hours ago, Crossy said:

The only things stapled in my passport are my TM-6 departure card (getting a bit dog-eared now) and my 90 day report receipt.

 

What else are people getting stapled?

 

Other than the TM6-card and the 90-days report receipt, I keep my TM30 report receipt stapled in my passport. If immigration for some reason asks for it,then I know where it is. 

2 minutes ago, midzo said:

My TM-28 and TM-30, too. 

That's sort of an overkill. The TM30, yes. The TM28,no need. 

1 hour ago, smccolley said:

I use the old staples from the TM6 to figure out how many times I have been in the airport. Once  I pulled out 55 old staples in a 2 year span... Recently they haven't even bothered stapling it, just shove it in and hope it doesn't get lost.

I noticed that - so I stapled the TM6 into my PP myself!  Just seems less trouble than what might happen if I lost it!

I have a paper clip holding my TM6 and 90 day report. The imm office always removes the old 90 day and replaces the new one under the clip. Has worked for me since I got my new passport 3 years ago.

I have a fairly new passport with just two trips to the kingdom in it. Of course that required two visits to Cambodia and 4 extensions plus a dozen TM30s and TM6. The U.S. IO looked at it and said, "Do you ever stay home?"

If they did not staple them, then people would complain how cheap they are because they do not have a stapler.  Personally, I like that they do it

Been here 10 years and only have 3 copies am I missing out

 

 

3 hours ago, Don Mega said:

Whats the purpose of keeping the TM.30 in your passport ?

You'll know where it is.

5 minutes ago, Vacuum said:

You'll know where it is.

Ohh ok, yeah I keep mine in the filing cabinet at home along with other miscellaneous documents and forms.

5 hours ago, Dogbarker said:

  As well as TM 47 and tm30 is stapled and immigration tells me I should staple the receipt for multi entry and visa extension to prove it is real. I actually copied and reduced the last ones as it was getting silly.

I don't even know where my extension receipt is, all I've got in my passport is the departure card (Where the passport number is no longer correct) from 2005 and the 90 day paper slip, nobody has tried to put anything else in.