Lost 90 Day Reporting Receipt

[John]

Yesterday I went to Bangkok Immigration to report my address as I do every 90 days. This time I noticed the receipt was not stapled to the back page and must have fallen off.

Using the same TM47 form saved to my computer every 90 days I usually just change the date and print it out since my arrival date, home address are the same. So I brought the TM47 and my passport to window 3 as usual.

As it seems, losing that receipt is a sin, and was told I needed to go to the police station (next door). 20 baht later for a special document, and back to the immigration building I went. Was then sent to room 206 upstairs.

Well, even though the staple was there somehow this receipt and fallen out and the officer there wasn't too happy. Asked a few times the exact date of my last 90 day submit, I said I'm not sure it was on the receipt, "usually 1 or 2 days before the 90 date". This was the wrong answer and she pointed to an absolute mountain of receipts and said, "then you find your reciept yourself" and went to the other side of the room and ignored me.

After about 10 minutes, I realized she wasn't coming back and asked if she could look it up in the computer. What a brilliant idea. Not really, she comes back and said I haven't reported since November 2006. Now I imagined a nice juicy fine and the stamp of shame in my passport, so somehow I was able to get a calendar from her and figured out the exact date. The last Friday of Feb. (it came to me as I remembered Friday around lunchtime is the worst day/time to go to immigration for anything).

So I told her for sure it was Feb. 23rd and a smaller mountain of receipts was hurled onto the desk in front of me. Well, it only took me 1 minute to find my receipt because my computer prints the TM47 form darker than the TM47s they use at immigration, so no need to look at names.

"here it is" made us both happy and she made a copy of it, then back down to window 3 and all was complete.

So, don't lose your receipt as it seems they are backlogged from last year entering them into their immigration computer.

Makes me wonder of those on thaivisa.com that send in theirs each 90 days, are you sending in the old receipt also ?? and new a TM47 filled out ? Because without sending in the old receipt how are they verifying the 90 days, not by computer it seems.

[Thanyaburi Mac]

Yesterday I went to Bangkok Immigration to report my address as I do every 90 days. This time I noticed the receipt was not stapled to the back page and must have fallen off.

Using the same TM47 form saved to my computer every 90 days I usually just change the date and print it out since my arrival date, home address are the same. So I brought the TM47 and my passport to window 3 as usual.

As it seems, losing that receipt is a sin, and was told I needed to go to the police station (next door). 20 baht later for a special document, and back to the immigration building I went. Was then sent to room 206 upstairs.

Well, even though the staple was there somehow this receipt and fallen out and the officer there wasn't too happy. Asked a few times the exact date of my last 90 day submit, I said I'm not sure it was on the receipt, "usually 1 or 2 days before the 90 date". This was the wrong answer and she pointed to an absolute mountain of receipts and said, "then you find your reciept yourself" and went to the other side of the room and ignored me.

After about 10 minutes, I realized she wasn't coming back and asked if she could look it up in the computer. What a brilliant idea. Not really, she comes back and said I haven't reported since November 2006. Now I imagined a nice juicy fine and the stamp of shame in my passport, so somehow I was able to get a calendar from her and figured out the exact date. The last Friday of Feb. (it came to me as I remembered Friday around lunchtime is the worst day/time to go to immigration for anything).

So I told her for sure it was Feb. 23rd and a smaller mountain of receipts was hurled onto the desk in front of me. Well, it only took me 1 minute to find my receipt because my computer prints the TM47 form darker than the TM47s they use at immigration, so no need to look at names.

"here it is" made us both happy and she made a copy of it, then back down to window 3 and all was complete.

So, don't lose your receipt as it seems they are backlogged from last year entering them into their immigration computer.

Makes me wonder of those on thaivisa.com that send in theirs each 90 days, are you sending in the old receipt also ?? and new a TM47 filled out ? Because without sending in the old receipt how are they verifying the 90 days, not by computer it seems.

Yep, could be a problem, which is why I scan my receipt as soon as I get it back from Suan Plu. FYI, I mail mine in, and also retain the EMS or Registry receipt from the post office in case the report goes MIA.

Mac

[Aujuba]

Not everyone has a scanner. The whole thing is silly anyways. If you live in Bangkok you are supposed to go to Soi Suan Pluu every 90 days from what I was told. The 90 day thing doesn't stop crime in anyway at all. If anyone from Thai immigration is willing to let us know one example of how it stopped crime it would be appreciated. The truth is its all a game. The Thai government keeps us coming and going hoping that eventually we will come late and pay them 2,000 baht. The fine people for being forgetful. Forgetful people are criminals in Thailand. Remember that.

[Lite Beer]

. Forgetful people are criminals in Thailand. Remember that.

Sorry I forgot.