Extension of stay denied at CW because I spent 1 night in hotel

[Celsius]

Yep, it has come to that.

[Maestro]

What reason for the extension of stay did you indicate on the application form?

[Celsius]

3 minutes ago, Maestro said:

What reason for the extension of stay did you indicate on the application form?

Non-O marriage.

 

 

[DrJack54]

What type of extension?

What was reason given for rejection? 

Guessing they were asking for TM30.

Was your previous annual extension done at CW? 

 

Seriously post sensible details. 

 

[Celsius]

6 minutes ago, DrJack54 said:

What type of extension?

What was reason given for rejection? 

Guessing they were asking for TM30.

Was your previous annual extension done at CW? 

 

Seriously post sensible details. 

 

 

I have done all my extensions at CW for the past 10 years. I stayed at 30 different hotels before covid every year and they never cared. Now after only 1 night I have to chase the landlord to report me.

 

Do you fancy any other details?

[DrJoy]

2 minutes ago, Celsius said:

chase the landlord to report me.

Tm 30 can be done by any person

[Celsius]

4 minutes ago, DrJoy said:

Tm 30 can be done by any person

 

Apparently not today, because they gave my wife the instructions to ask for the signed authorisation from the landlord which she needs to bring to "counter B". 

[DrJack54]

10 minutes ago, Celsius said:

Do you fancy any other details?

Geez. 

You were rejected based on not having provided a TM30.

That is very easy to state in your OP. ...

And yes that should not be required unless you changed address .

 

Edit: now I read above it was extension based on marriage.

 

Advice: make a detailed OP in future.

There seems currently more scrutiny on extensions based on marriage 

[spidermike007]

I would have made a HUGE stink, and asked for the top manager in the office. I would not have left without the extension of stay. Believe me, noise goes a long ways here, when it comes to getting things done. It works for me, and I apply it only in the face of a serious degree of ridiculousness. 

[orchis]

52 minutes ago, hotandsticky said:

noise goes a long ways here

it does not.
thai immigration bureau is part of the rtp (royal thai police) so 'making noise' could backfire rapidly.

[Celsius]

I asked ChatGPT

 

 

[DrJack54]

9 minutes ago, Celsius said:

I asked ChatGPT

 

 

What is your point.

 

That answer means little to this forum. 

 

First hand replies from the 75 immigration offices is what AseanNow is about. 

The replies will vary. 

 

Edit: I just now read robot reply.

Is that a joke. 

That advice is same rubbish when I robot chat eg airlines

 

 

[NoDisplayName]

54 minutes ago, Celsius said:

 

Apparently not today, because they gave my wife the instructions to ask for the signed authorisation from the landlord which she needs to bring to "counter B". 

Ten years?

 

Why haven't you or your wife registered your apartment/condo/house on the sec.38 app so you can do the TM-30 yourself in seconds?

[Lemsta69]

31 minutes ago, DrJack54 said:

What is your point.

 

That answer means little to this forum. 

 

First hand replies from the 75 immigration offices is what AseanNow is about. 

The replies will vary. 

 

Edit: I just now read robot reply.

Is that a joke. 

That advice is same rubbish when I robot chat eg airlines

 

 

The version of ChatGPT that is free for public use, v3.5, is a bit of a joke. It was "fed" a very limited amount of information, only 300 billion words or so and that data cuts off sometime in 2021.

 

Also it's not actually an AI, it's just an in-development computer program and it can't distinguish fact from fiction. So, for example, if most of the data it has been fed calls an extension a visa renewal then how will it know any different?

 

I don't understand why people are putting so much store by it. Perhaps they're the ones with "artificial" intelligence.

[markclover]

You're trying to it the right way.  Do it the wrong way and pay an agency to give you a work permit.

[DrJack54]

3 minutes ago, Lemsta69 said:

I don't understand why people are putting so much store by it. Perhaps they're the ones with "artificial" intelligence.

Very true.

Most of us living in Thailand obviously love the joint.

One negative is the various rules over the 75 immigration offices here.

 

My thinking is that AseanNow provides platform for recent experiences regarding extensions or whatever. 

 

[hotandsticky]

52 minutes ago, orchis said:

it does not.
thai immigration bureau is part of the rtp (royal thai police) so 'making noise' could backfire rapidly.

Would you mind editing that post  - you seem to have erroneously attributed the 'noise' comment to me,

[DrJack54]

3 minutes ago, markclover said:

You're trying to it the right way.  Do it the wrong way and pay an agency to give you a work permit.

What the heck do you mean.

The OP started thread based on applying for extension based on marriage. 

He did not ask about agent . 

[it is what it is]

1 hour ago, spidermike007 said:

I would have made a HUGE stink, and asked for the top manager in the office. I would not have left without the extension of stay. Believe me, noise goes a long ways here, when it comes to getting things done. It works for me, and I apply it only in the face of a serious degree of ridiculousness. 

 

no sensible person would make a huge stink in immigration as the chances that you would get your way just because you threw your toys out of the pram are extremely slim.

 

 

[buick]

the TM30 exercise is an odd one.  i'm at a hotel outside bkk (but in thailand) for a few days every month. my apartment manager has no idea when i return from these trips so does not do a new TM30.  but whatever she prints off for me before i go to CW each year seems to do the job.  

[Lemsta69]

15 minutes ago, buick said:

the TM30 exercise is an odd one.

How so? Since the rule change in June 2020 it is no longer necessary for "long-stayers" to submit a new TM30 when they come back from a trip either domestically or internationally. It's only required if you come back in on a new visa.

[Maestro]

3 hours ago, Celsius said:

I have done all my extensions at CW for the past 10 years. I stayed at 30 different hotels before covid every year and they never cared. Now after only 1 night I have to chase the landlord to report me.

Below are the links to the TM.30 reporting requirements currently in force:

 

Thai language

https://aseannow.com/applications/core/interface/file/attachment.php?id=689133

 

English translation

https://aseannow.com/applications/core/interface/file/attachment.php?id=689586

 

From what you have posted, the following excerpt from those regulations appear to apply to your situation. You may wish to take a printout of the Thai text to your immigration office and ask the immigration official it this is the case.

 

Quote

2.2 After a householder, owner or possessor of dwelling place or
hotel manager already made a notification according to 2.1, then the alien
goes to occasionally stay somewhere else and return to stay at the original place
within the notified period of stay tahat has not yet ended, such householder,
owner or possessor of dwelling place or hotel manager is not required to make
a notification again.

 

[proton]

Seems to be so much confusion about the TM30, not just by different offices but by different IO's in the same room! Wanted to see mine last time i did an extension, showing them the address on the TM30 from their own app on the phone not good enough, want to see 4 year old print out. They said they needed a newer TM30 as that was too old, then told me, after showing them the changed rules of June 2020 that did not apply, one officer refused to read the rules above. In the end they just ignored it and processed the application without a new TM30.

[biervoormij]

2 hours ago, Celsius said:

 

I have done all my extensions at CW for the past 10 years. I stayed at 30 different hotels before covid every year and they never cared. Now after only 1 night I have to chase the landlord to report me.

 

Do you fancy any other details?

Did you use the hotel address on your application for extension of stay or your home address?

 

Did you provide a TM30 for your home address?

 

[TallGuyJohninBKK]

3 hours ago, Celsius said:

Do you fancy any other details?

Had you filed any recent (or any prior) TM30 for your current home... before making the recent hotel stay that triggered this problem with Immigration?

 

The supposed policy at BKK CW for TM30 for people on annual extensions like retirement or marriage is that they are NOT required to file new TM30s for their existing residence, even if they make domestic or international travel trips -- as long as they're coming back to their previously TM30-reported same residence.

 

So, had you done a prior TM30 for your current home?

 

As quoted by @Maestro above:

 

"2.2 After a householder, owner or possessor of dwelling place or
hotel manager already made a notification according to 2.1, then the alien goes to occasionally stay somewhere else and return to stay at the original place within the notified period of stay that has not yet ended, such householder, owner or possessor of dwelling place or hotel manager is not required to make a notification again."

[thaibeachlovers]

4 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

I would have made a HUGE stink, and asked for the top manager in the office. I would not have left without the extension of stay. Believe me, noise goes a long ways here, when it comes to getting things done. It works for me, and I apply it only in the face of a serious degree of ridiculousness. 

One day that's not going to work!

[BritTim]

5 hours ago, Lemsta69 said:

The version of ChatGPT that is free for public use, v3.5, is a bit of a joke. It was "fed" a very limited amount of information, only 300 billion words or so and that data cuts off sometime in 2021.

 

Also it's not actually an AI, it's just an in-development computer program and it can't distinguish fact from fiction. So, for example, if most of the data it has been fed calls an extension a visa renewal then how will it know any different?

 

I don't understand why people are putting so much store by it. Perhaps they're the ones with "artificial" intelligence.

ChatGPT is a useful tool if you understand its limitations. It is based on information posted over the years by human beings. Most of the information posted by humans (as a perusal of this forum will suggest) is nonsense or misinformation. While the tool makes some attempt to evaluate which information is most likely to be trustworthy, such filtering at the current time is unreliable. So, sure, the information it provides is usually dubious: in this situation, perhaps, no better than a Thai embassy website. However, it provides a baseline that you can check for accuracy against other sources.

[Mark mark]

It probably still bepends on where you are and who ypu are talking to re this TM30 Problem I think.

 

Dec. Last yeat I got fined 1,000 for goimg to Bangkok snd staying in a Hotel there, who reported that I was there as they are suposed to I think. But my problem was,  I did not report when I went mack home the nrct day. So I was left staying in BKK in there system. 

 

The boss then said later that I should not have been foned ? ... But the woman that did it ... (who was pk as she granted me my extension also eventually ) ... gave him her reasons for finimg me,  and he just threw his hands up and " said something like ^What the F then ... just pay tbefine"  and signed and stamped me in for another 12 months. ...

 

But I still now would re report back near my home, if I have been away and the hotel that I stayed in reported that I eas there. ... What ever any one might say ? ...

 

Like you probably stayed in the Hotel 1 day and they reported you were there ...  but you did not report when you got back home. ? ... So your records would have said you were in BKK and not at home with your wife  ... your reason for the stay. 

 

They also s3nt the Imm police around to my home to check that I lived there after that. Before the issued mt extension.

 

I make no judgements here. ...  I jus5 deal with it.

[Lemsta69]

1 minute ago, Mark mark said:

but you did not report when you got back home. ?

Under the new rules he doesn't have to do another report when the gets back home, unless he's coming back in on a new visa. Bangkok have been complying with the new rules so the OP's case is strange.

[Celsius]

2 minutes ago, Lemsta69 said:

Under the new rules he doesn't have to do another report when the gets back home, unless he's coming back in on a new visa.

 

Ok....I think that's what it is.