Question about visa renewal -- hotel residence on non-0 (retirement)

[Jsay2]

Apologies if this is a repeat question. It relates to using TM 30 reporting to verify residence (for O visa renewal) when no rental contract is available and is specific to using Chiang Mai IO.

 

I am on an O visa (retirement) extended for a year (renewal due in April).

I live in Chiang Mai and use the airport IO location.

I stay at a hotel month-to-month as my residence.

I do not have a rental contract, but stay at the same hotel.

 

When I return from travel (when I have stayed at another hotel) I have the hotel issue another TM 30 ("evidence of accommodation" / หลักฐานการแจ้งที่พัก), which has worked for me with my 90 day reports in CM. The current TM 30 reporting system no longer has the option of entering number of days of stay, but it does give the option of a check-out date. I realize the check-out date is optional, but I am using this to verify long term stay for visa renewal time.

 

For anyone with experience with this: do you suggest putting a check-out date the same as my visa extension expiration (I read this somewhere) or do you think it's better to put a check out distant into the future? On my current checkout date on the most recent TM 30 submission we put December 2025 (more than 1 year from now) but my visa technically expires several months before that. Do you think the IO will care that the current expected stay reported in TM 30 system and on the form is past the extension expiry stamp date? (In essence, I am assuming renewal prior to actual renewal.) I realize this is similar to someone with a rental contract, but I already feel a little odd that I'm not presenting them with a rental contract (as I have in the past).

 

I also will have the hotel write a letter confirming my extended stay (with the hotel stamp).

 

Thank you very much in advance for any assistance / experience that can be shared!

[DrJack54]

19 minutes ago, Jsay2 said:

I am on an O visa (retirement) extended for a year (renewal due in April).

I live in Chiang Mai and use the airport IO location.

I stay at a hotel month-to-month as my residence.

I do not have a rental contract, but stay at the same hotel.

Thinking TM30 and perhaps some receipts from condo for monthly payments might be usefull.

If you have a copy of most recent 90 day report take it along.

 

Here is a thread with lists of required documents.

Some posts have over kill including some items not required.