Last November due to emergency circumstances l had to use a large portion of my 400,000 Thb in the bank intended for a new Thai wife visa.
As the time was very limited, I used an agent in Pattaya for a retirement visa even though l live in Bangkok.
l had to do my 90 days report in Chonburi because the visa was issued there. This is no problem.

My question is:
l need a resident certificate to renew my 5 year driving license in a week l just realized, do l need to get the resident certificate in Chonburi and obtain a new license there or can l get it in Bangkok where l have live?

 

(Even though l have the retirement visa in my passport, l am very nervous and unsure what to do)

Hoping to receive kind and correct solutions as it was a needs must decision to obtain the visa in Chonburi.

 

Thank you sincerely.

32 minutes ago, Expatjames said:

l had to do my 90 days report in Chonburi because the visa was issued there. This is no problem.

You are supposed to do the 90 days report for the address where you live, if you live in Bangkok you do it there. You not doing it correctly is obviously a problem now ????

 

Either do it in Chonburi as you already said yourself, or you do your next 90 day report in Bangkok and get a certificate of residence in Bangkok after this.

An alternative would be to obtain it from your embassy, but this will cost you 1500-2000 baht or so depending on how greedy your home country is.

Do a TM30 for your address in Bangkok. When your next 90 day address report is due obtain it at Muang Thong Thani. While your there  obtain your Residence Certificate. The desks are adjacent. 

49 minutes ago, jackdd said:

You are supposed to do the 90 days report for the address where you live, if you live in Bangkok you do it there. You not doing it correctly is obviously a problem now ????

 

Either do it in Chonburi as you already said yourself, or you do your next 90 day report in Bangkok and get a certificate of residence in Bangkok after this.

An alternative would be to obtain it from your embassy, but this will cost you 1500-2000 baht or so depending on how greedy your home country is.

Thank you for your feedback, l went to Muang Thong Thani for my 90 days and was told to go to Chonburi as the visa was issued there.

The 90 days was completed and next report is May.

16 minutes ago, DrJack54 said:

Do a TM30 for your address in Bangkok. When your next 90 day address report is due obtain it at Muang Thong Thani. While your there  obtain your Residence Certificate. The desks are adjacent. 

Thank you Drjack, my current address  (house book was provided) for my Chonburi visa. Thisis where I am getting confused regarding a TM30.

My next 90 days is in mid May but my driving license expires in April.

Thanks again.

40 minutes ago, Expatjames said:

Thank you for your feedback, l went to Muang Thong Thani for my 90 days and was told to go to Chonburi as the visa was issued there.

The 90 days was completed and next report is May.

You or your landlord should have done a TM30 for your Bangkok address, then you would have been able to do the 90 day report in Bangkok.

47 minutes ago, jackdd said:

You or your landlord should have done a TM30 for your Bangkok address, then you would have been able to do the 90 day report in Bangkok.

Thank you again Jack, my wife's Bangkok house book was used to obtain the Chonburi visa.

I still worried about any ramifications if l ask for a resident certificate in Maung  Thong Thani as my visa states Chonburi province l think.

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Thank you again Jack, my wife's Bangkok house book was used to obtain the Chonburi visa.

??  How could a Bangkokkok Taam Bien baan ( house book) be used to get a extension in Chonburi?  You said u used an agent an obviously that agent used a chonburi address NOT ur Bangkok address.

whichever immigration was used to do ur extension is where you file ur 90 day report as you found out.

That is also where you will get a cor and than use that to get ur dl in Chonburi
OTHERWISE
file a NEW TM 30 for ur Bangkok address.

2 hours ago, Expatjames said:

Thank you again Jack, my wife's Bangkok house book was used to obtain the Chonburi visa.

That was only used as part of the package of documents for the extension of stay based upon marriage.

I am sure a Chonburi address was used for the application.

 

Go to the immigration in Bangkok and tell them you've moved house, which is not a criminal offence! 

7 minutes ago, Neeranam said:

Go to the immigration in Bangkok and tell them you've moved house, which is not a criminal offence! 

Suggested above already. Needs to file change of address. This has been changed from TM28 to just using TM30.

Thank you all for the feedback, l shall do the TM30 change of address to my Bangkok address.

Quick questions, will I need any proof of the address that was used in Pattaya like utility bill etc?

Also, is the date I say l moved to Bangkok important?

 

Thank you again for sharing your knowledge.

40 minutes ago, Expatjames said:

Quick questions, will I need any proof of the address that was used in Pattaya like utility bill etc?

You stay at your wife's house or where?

 

42 minutes ago, Expatjames said:

Also, is the date I say l moved to Bangkok important?

The TM30 has to be done within 24 hours, so you should just claim that you moved in "yesterday".

52 minutes ago, Expatjames said:

Quick questions, will I need any proof of the address that was used in Pattaya like utility bill etc?

No

Many thanks all.

 

The agent in Pattaya this morning said just go to Bangkok immigration and change address using TM30 and no document from Chonburi is required, "just say you move back yesterday"

 

3 minutes ago, Expatjames said:

Many thanks all.

 

The agent in Pattaya this morning said just go to Bangkok immigration and change address using TM30 and no document from Chonburi is required, "just say you move back yesterday"

 

That's good confirmation of what has been advised above by various posters.

21 hours ago, Expatjames said:

Thank you Drjack, my current address  (house book was provided) for my Chonburi visa. Thisis where I am getting confused regarding a TM30.

My next 90 days is in mid May but my driving license expires in April.

Thanks again.

 

 

You do not need to fret about your driving license expiring in April. You can do it afterwards. They are very relaxed I find, about these matters.

 

My other half has driven around on expired IDs and driving licenses and only updates them when I have noticed and gone on about it. It's not a good way to go about things with expired documents, but that's how many of them are.

 

Also, fill out a new TM30 and say you moved to Bangkok in the last two days, they don't know any different or care as a rule if they have a reasonable excuse for their paperwork.

although because of covid and the transport office closed for a time, they said ur license would be ok

BUT no one has said anything about what IF you have an accident  on an expired license?

 

for the previous 4- 5 year licenses, i always went in the day AFTER my bd and the day my license expired, so got 6 years

This time i timed it i was 4 days late .