Thailand Digital Arrival Card (TDAC) system is online (but not announced as starting yet)

[CallumWK]

I still can't view the video guide. When I click the tab it takes me back to the top of th page.

 

[novacova]

3 minutes ago, CallumWK said:

 

Then how do you fill in the form 72 hours before arriving

Arrival technically begins when the passport is stamped, so get off the plane fill out the form and then wait 72 hours.

[CallumWK]

1 minute ago, novacova said:

Arrival technically begins when the passport is stamped 

 

So 72 hours before that, you are still in your home country.

 

WHEN SUBMIT?
Foreigners should submit their arrival card information 3 days in advance of arriving in Thailand, including the date of arrival. 

[DrJack54]

13 minutes ago, CallumWK said:

Foreigners should submit their arrival card information 3 days in advance of arriving in Thailand, including the date of arrival. 

How will this work for border bounce.

".....aiming to provide convenience for all foreigners entering Thailand by air, land, or sea" 

[novacova]

Country of Residence, given that so many expats who live both here and their home country on a variable basis, wonder what one would correctly put in this field in that case, personally I think I used to put th on the tm6 if that field was on that form but really don’t remember what was required on the tm6 seems so long ago.  

[CallumWK]

18 minutes ago, DrJack54 said:

How will this work for border bounce.

".....aiming to provide convenience for all foreigners entering Thailand by air, land, or sea" 

I guess they mean within 72 hours prior to arriving.

 

[Albaby]

Seems to me that you cannot nominate Thailand as your place of residence.

[Yagoda]

9 hours ago, Liquorice said:

Could their wording term 'Border Pass' be a reference to a re-entry permit.

Cambodians, Laotians and Burmese on the borders get them. Live in Poipet and work in Aranyaphrathet. Or shop.

[novacova]

18 minutes ago, Albaby said:

Seems to me that you cannot nominate Thailand as your place of residence.

Oh you’re correct, th is not listed. So we can assume no tax on non residents that live here.

[Serenity_Now]

1 hour ago, zzzzz said:

why?
there is already something similar for Cambodia, Malaysia and Singapore in the area

No big deal

Agreed 
At present its nothing just info 
then you have your QR code
will they have a database that can handle it we wait n see
as for their facial recognition that expred they only bought x amount of million licences even though TAT has projections of arrivals

Though whatthey should have told the IO's is only put those of certain ages and sex into the system and then it would have been aqequate

so thats a waste of space the digital arrival is just the tm6 
who knows if they ever digitised all those cards because it would be an impossible task to find someone on just those paper cards
what sort of filing system did they use
would it be like the lime mines that house the USA federal workers data

[VBF]

54 minutes ago, novacova said:

Country of Residence, given that so many expats who live both here and their home country on a variable basis, wonder what one would correctly put in this field in that case, personally I think I used to put th on the tm6 if that field was on that form but really don’t remember what was required on the tm6 seems so long ago.  

Probably country of passport will suffice.

 

BUT as @Maestro said earlier, this is still under development and really shouldn't be visible to any of us!

As a former software tester, I find this to be extremely poor practice....the site should be on a development server until tested and ready for release to we the users. 

[Cuchulainn]

So, if like me, you have no home address or ph number, what do you put?

 

Anyone know the phone numbers of Buckingham palace or the White House?

😄😄

[DrJack54]

7 minutes ago, Cuchulainn said:

So, if like me, you have no home address or ph number, what do you put?

Keep in mind that most folk entering Thailand are tourists. 

They can write whatever they want.

In my early days with the TM6 card..

For address in Thailand I write...

NANA PLAZA Soi 4.

Along with fictional phone #

When in doubt make it up. 

[RUSirius]

14 hours ago, Jack1988 said:

it's ridiculous and nonsense to me

 

Well, it's none the less consistent

[ThaiVisaCentre]

3 hours ago, impulse said:

Nope.  Here's what I get:

 

 

I can't tell where it's being blocked.  Could be by the originator, or it could be by the Great Firewall.

 

 

We have not seen this, this can happen with new DNS updates.

Maybe check back later, we have tested the site from multiple regions, and it appears to be accessible.

We also did a write up here with screenshots: https://tdac.in.th

[Froggybanrai]

Again, this seems to have been hastily done as it omitts the fact that like me, some farangs entering Thailand are here all the time and have no adress nor Tel number in their own county! As the system excludes Thai citizens, it it impossible to enter Thailand as your country, adress,Tel number etc. So I guess one will have to enter a fake adress and Tel in their own country... brilliant!

[Upnotover]

8 minutes ago, ThaiVisaCentre said:

We also did a write up here with screenshots: https://tdac.in.th

 

Interesting. You write;

When to Submit Your TDAC

Foreigners should submit their arrival card information 3 days in advance of arriving in Thailand, including the date of arrival. This allows sufficient time for processing and verification of the information provided.

 

Verification?  Seriously?  I had assumed that, like elsewhere, they don't want early applications clogging up the system hence the 3 day limit. 

[impulse]

25 minutes ago, ThaiVisaCentre said:

We have not seen this, this can happen with new DNS updates.

Maybe check back later, we have tested the site from multiple regions, and it appears to be accessible.

We also did a write up here with screenshots: https://tdac.in.th

 

Well, if you see a sudden 100% drop in Chinese tourism...

 

I'd add that I have tried on 3 of my installed browsers.  So that's not it.

 

[Peterphuket]

8 minutes ago, Froggybanrai said:

Again, this seems to have been hastily done as it omitts the fact that like me, some farangs entering Thailand are here all the time and have no adress nor Tel number in their own county! As the system excludes Thai citizens, it it impossible to enter Thailand as your country, adress,Tel number etc. So I guess one will have to enter a fake adress and Tel in their own country... brilliant!

A Thai and thinking, they don't mix.

[Upnotover]

27 minutes ago, Froggybanrai said:

Again, this seems to have been hastily done as it omitts the fact that like me, some farangs entering Thailand are here all the time and have no adress nor Tel number in their own county! As the system excludes Thai citizens, it it impossible to enter Thailand as your country, adress,Tel number etc. So I guess one will have to enter a fake adress and Tel in their own country... brilliant!

They want your address in Thailand.  And a number to reach you on. Nothing difficult l.

[WorriedNoodle]

30 minutes ago, Froggybanrai said:

Again, this seems to have been hastily done as it omitts the fact that like me, some farangs entering Thailand are here all the time and have no adress nor Tel number in their own county! As the system excludes Thai citizens, it it impossible to enter Thailand as your country, adress,Tel number etc. So I guess one will have to enter a fake adress and Tel in their own country... brilliant!

Agreed. On the old written TM6 I would always put my country of residence as Thailand and that is all I have now, and thats not an option on this online version.

[OJAS]

11 hours ago, treetops said:

A Border Pass is  used for those from neighbouring countries like Laos, Cambodia who can enter Thailand for a period without a passport. 

 

So presumably the powers-that-be in Laos, Cambodia, Malaysia & (?) Myannmar issue these passes to their nationals who live within striking distance of the Thai border, in the same way as their Thai counterparts issue such passes to similarly eligible Thai nationals if this link is to be believed?

 

https://www.dopa.go.th/public_service/service_guide404/view405

 

[Upnotover]

15 hours ago, Jack1988 said:

It looks like fill out information about departure isn't mandatory, it can be skipped. But I don't understand the meaning of the health declaration, it says you have to be covid vaccinated and where you have been in the last 2 weeks before travel

Yellow fever, not COVID.

[impulse]

2 hours ago, VBF said:

Probably country of passport will suffice.

 

BUT as @Maestro said earlier, this is still under development and really shouldn't be visible to any of us!

As a former software tester, I find this to be extremely poor practice....the site should be on a development server until tested and ready for release to we the users. 

 

I don't agree.  They're probably identifying quite a few problems as posters here access the site from the real world, using real browsers, and asking real world questions.

 

Better they find them before the rollout than after.

 

[OJAS]

49 minutes ago, Froggybanrai said:

Again, this seems to have been hastily done

 

The whole thing is basically a ***** of the highest order, as things stand, I think!

 

[ThaiVisaCentre]

55 minutes ago, Upnotover said:

 

Interesting. You write;

When to Submit Your TDAC

Foreigners should submit their arrival card information 3 days in advance of arriving in Thailand, including the date of arrival. This allows sufficient time for processing and verification of the information provided.

 

Verification?  Seriously?  I had assumed that, like elsewhere, they don't want early applications clogging up the system hence the 3 day limit. 

From what we have seen its actually instant approval, so if theres verification happening its post-approval.

[DrJack54]

Personally find this  "registration" a joke.

As stated earlier....most entries to Thailand are tourists. 

Even if a tourist was to enter and provide correct address on the TDAC what next. 

They move onto next place of short stay. 

The addresses, phone # etc can (and most likely will be) Fictitious.

 

To make it even more laughable is that for the expats living ongoing in Thailand their addresses, phone # etc already in the system via extension records, TM47 and TM30 records etc. 

[OJAS]

4 hours ago, novacova said:

Arrival technically begins when the passport is stamped, so get off the plane fill out the form and then wait 72 hours.

 

You could find yourself waiting 72 hours to get your passport stamped in any event if you were to find yourself stuck at the back of an exceedingly long queue of foreigners at Arrivals, with each person in front of you clutching a mobile for what could well turn out to be a lengthy process of accessing an app from it in order to squirt info into a QR reader, followed by an inevitably further long wait while said QR reader decides whether or not what you have squirted into it is deemed sufficiently acceptable to enable you to proceed forward!

[impulse]

21 minutes ago, DrJack54 said:

Personally find this  "registration" a joke.

As stated earlier....most entries to Thailand are tourists. 

Even if a tourist was to enter and provide correct address on the TDAC what next. 

They move onto next place of short stay. 

The addresses, phone # etc can (and most likely will be) Fictitious.

 

To make it even more laughable is that for the expats living ongoing in Thailand their addresses, phone # etc already in the system via extension records, TM47 and TM30 records etc. 

 

It's probably not targeted at the 95-99% you're talking about.  My guess is that it's for the 1-5% that come to Thailand to avoid jail back home, run some drugs, or for some other nefarious purpose.

 

In theory, this gives them 3 more days to do their diligence.

[impulse]

Just now, OJAS said:

You could find yourself waiting 72 hours to get your passport stamped in any event if you were to find yourself stuck at the back of an exceedingly long queue of foreigners at Arrivals, with each person in front of you clutching a mobile for what could well turn out to be a lengthy process of accessing an app from it in order to squirt info into a QR reader,

 

Especially since there's a lot of airlines banning power banks on flights, so a lot of passengers arrive with dead smartphones.  That's been a learning curve for me flying the Chinese airlines where power banks can't be used in flight.  Making sure I don't run out of battery.