New 90 day check in requirements at Jomtien Immigration

[Wuvu2]

Do they do the 90 day report all in one visit or must we drop off the passport and paperwork and return later to pick it up?

[fulhamster]

7 minutes ago, Wuvu2 said:

Do they do the 90 day report all in one visit or must we drop off the passport and paperwork and return later to pick it up?

You usually have to wait 30 minutes -- but be sure to hand in by 11am otherwise you could be sat waiting until the 12-1 lunch break finishes

[Guderian]

19 hours ago, fulhamster said:

You usually have to wait 30 minutes -- but be sure to hand in by 11am otherwise you could be sat waiting until the 12-1 lunch break finishes

 

I did it 3 weeks ago and there's a sign up where they issue the queue numbers saying that the process takes one hour. The lady said the same to me when she handed me the ticket, come back in one hour. The place was really busy so I went for a drive and had a bite to eat in Burger King, then went back just a bit over an hour later. The wretched place was even more packed now, as not only had a continuous stream of TM47 and TM30 customers arrived, but all the people who had been told to come back in an hour had returned. A woman shouts out ticket numbers randomly and it was another 25 minutes before my number was announced. All in all, from the time I arrived at Immigration until I got my passport back it was almost exactly 2 hours. A huge waste of time for something that's so utterly pointless.

Oh, and don't forget that a copy of your TM30 slip is listed as a requirement on their 'what to bring' sign. Why? They don't even ask for that when you do the annual visa extension, which is surely a lot more important than the stupid 90-day report. There are times I almost hope that they start playing hardball over taxes so they can drive me out of the country and I'll never have to put up with this particular aspect of Thai bureaucratic idiocy again!

[fulhamster]

2 hours ago, Guderian said:

 

 

Oh, and don't forget that a copy of your TM30 slip is listed as a requirement on their 'what to bring' sign. Why? They don't even ask for that when you do the annual visa extension, which is surely a lot more important than the stupid 90-day report.

Your original TM30 slip is stapled inside your passport.