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

[sandyf]

12 hours ago, Maestro said:

 

They've probably been reading our topics on this.

Not very well it would appear.

I have just tried it and it wouldn't accept Thailand as a country of Residence.

Not that easy to complete, drop downs are messy and I can see many getting stuck on dates,  unless they have come across that type of calendar before.

[sandyf]

On 4/3/2025 at 7:08 PM, lambshankredemption said:

Likewise, the term “Country of Residence”also seems “simple” and “clear”, yet I can’t select Thailand. 

Agreed.

[Jack1988]

29 minutes ago, DrJack54 said:

If you have a visa or reentry permit suggest that be entered. 

And do you think it would be a problem if you fill out departure information within 60 days but then you decide to extend 30 days more at your local immigration and remain more time in the country?

[Jack1988]

15 minutes ago, BigBilly said:

For example, if entering visa exempt, I definitely wouldn't skip the departure flight information.  That would almost certainly get questions from the IO.

I don't believe it would be necessary if you are coming with a tourist visa for example and you should buy an onward ticket to exit Thailand within 60 days if you are coming visa exempt, so you could show it in case they might ask

[redwood1]

Well I am feeling better about this so long as slackers like myself can fill out TDAC or a TM6 on arrival....And if this puts me in the slow line, thats fine...

[sandyf]

On 4/3/2025 at 1:14 PM, Liquorice said:

Best to check with your own IO.

Exactly.

I came back in Oct with TM30 from 2015. 

Done a 12 month ext and 2 x 90 days since then without any problem.

[BigBilly]

12 minutes ago, Jack1988 said:

And do you think it would be a problem if you fill out departure information within 60 days but then you decide to extend 30 days more at your local immigration and remain more time in the country?

But why not just enter the onward flight date in the online form.  Then the IO almost certainly won't even ask you about the onward flight.  Makes everyone's life easier.

[Jack1988]

9 minutes ago, BigBilly said:

But why not just enter the onward flight date in the online form.  Then the IO almost certainly won't even ask you about the onward flight.  Makes everyone's life easier.

i don't really feel comfortable to register a departure flight on the online tdac, as it will be in the immigration system and what in case you might end up on extend your 60 days exemption at your local immigration? I don't know if it could be a problem, maybe they will check it or not at all 

[BigBilly]

Just now, Jack1988 said:

i don't really feel comfortable to register a departure flight on the online tdac, as it will be in the immigration system and what in case you might end up on extend your 60 days expemtion at your local immigration? I don't know 

I see. To each their own.  If you show your onward flight to the IO upon arrival, I'm sure they will just enter that same date in the exact same system.

[DrJack54]

26 minutes ago, Jack1988 said:

And do you think it would be a problem if you fill out departure information within 60 days but then you decide to extend 30 days more at your local immigration and remain more time in the country?

Obtaining a 30 day extension has nothing to do with TDAC.

Would not be an issue

[LittleBear57]

15 hours ago, ronnie50 said:

That's what I think too. It's just another creep, creep, toward us doing all the work - while paying for the air travel and the entry fee with no human service. In Japan, they made me do it all. No check in desks. Nice ANA ladies around at the self serve kiosks, but that's not the point. Like many (not just Japan), I had to self-check-in, scan my passport, print my boarding passes, print my baggage tags, glue them to my bags, then take my bags to the self-loading belts (hoof them up yourself of course). Before you know it, we'll be loading them directly into the belly of the aircraft ourselves with a loudspeaker playing on a loop saying 'keep moving, place the bags in the last possible spot in the rear of the aircraft'. They'll replace the flight attendants with 'safety robots'. A meal? Make it yourself in the galley's microwaves. 

I'll fly it. Always wanted to have a go at that, I'm sure we'll be OK.

[LittleBear57]

Leaving Thailand later this week but fortunately arrive back on the 24th. The form looks ready to go now and I didn't see when it actually starts on the official site, just on this post. 

Hopefully all the issues will be sorted out before I leave again, and I'm sure there will be many.

[ronnie50]

14 hours ago, BrandonJT said:

Has nothing to do with that.  

 

You can't do analytics on a mountain of paper forms.  If it's all digitized, they can then do analytics.  Who is arriving from where.  Where are they going after they arrive. Etc.  That type of data is very valuable for tourism purposes and other things.

So you mean peviously they weren't doing anything with the TM6 cards then. No research by manually inputing details like country, age, duration of stay? Of course they were. This just makes it easier for them and more work for the traveler.

[xtrnuno41]

Well just filled all in with all just fake crab. Possible.

Skipped page 3 health. also not needed, not red starred

I pressed preview

(you must) and then surprisingly 2 more questions MUST be filled in

 

Weird, first next and next and then preview, but it is essential.

* Please specify an email to send Thailand Digital Arrival Card

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

* I have read and accepted the Terms and conditions.

[RamblingOn]

Selecting the country of residence is a big problem.

[NativeBob]

My guess is that they will abandon this "improvement" just month before "high season" i.e. about Sept-Oct. 

It is nothing else just fill'n'print webform, nothing to do with sophisticated Web 2.0 or some mega-database. 

Remember COVID cards and some fancy QR codes? same-same. 

[DrJack54]

37 minutes ago, RamblingOn said:

Selecting the country of residence is a big problem.

They have now added Thailand to the list. 

In any event just put passport country. 

[black tabby12345]

I just looked at the site.

 

TDAC Thailand Digital Arrival Card

 

Regarding the country of residence.

 

What about an expat living here year around; not living anywhere else?

 

And their list doesn't include Thailand.

 

[brewsterbudgen]

4 minutes ago, black tabby12345 said:

I just looked at the site.

 

TDAC Thailand Digital Arrival Card

 

Regarding the country of residence.

 

What about an expat living here year around; not living anywhere else?

 

And their list doesn't include Thailand.

 

 

Read @DrJack54's post above yours.  It's being added.

[black tabby12345]

On 3/28/2025 at 8:23 PM, Jack1988 said:

it's ridiculous and nonsense to me

 

Yes, quite.

It is not taking account of the people living here.

Country of Residence list, doesn't include Thailand.

 

What happens to the expats who live here(not anywhere else)?
 

[black tabby12345]

2 minutes ago, brewsterbudgen said:

 

Read @DrJack54's post above yours.  It's being added.

 

Thank you for your advice.

 

[DrJack54]

8 minutes ago, black tabby12345 said:

What happens to the expats who live here(not anywhere else)?

Personally don't think it really matters. 

I live in Thailand continuously on annual extensions. 

I don't have permanent resident status in Thailand. 

I have temporary permission of stay. 

On the TDAC I will put my passport country, Oz for country of residence. 

[black tabby12345]

8 minutes ago, DrJack54 said:

Personally don't think it really matters. 

I live in Thailand continuously on annual extensions. 

I don't have permanent resident status in Thailand. 

I have temporary permission of stay. 

On the TDAC I will put my passport country, Oz for country of residence. 

 

Thank you for your post.

I am not a permanent resident either(annual extension of one year visa).

Someone told me they updated the list of Country of Residence.

And now, Thailand is said to be among them though.

 

[black tabby12345]

2 hours ago, NativeBob said:

My guess is that they will abandon this "improvement" just month before "high season" i.e. about Sept-Oct. 

It is nothing else just fill'n'print webform, nothing to do with sophisticated Web 2.0 or some mega-database. 

Remember COVID cards and some fancy QR codes? same-same. 

 

Before they determine it is the useless hassle maker, they must learn the lesson(so many people que up at the  Help Desk at all of the points of entry.

Saying it is to speed up the immigration process, it only causes adverse effect(more labor needed than old arrival card).

[DrJack54]

20 minutes ago, black tabby12345 said:

Someone told me they updated the list of Country of Residence.

From Tod (OP) Updated info.... 

 

"It will go live the 28th of April so people arriving May 1st can apply 
AND 
It will have Thailand as a choice in country of residence too "

 

Frankly irrelevant IMO. 

Put passport country. 

[redwood1]

2 hours ago, NativeBob said:

My guess is that they will abandon this "improvement" just month before "high season" i.e. about Sept-Oct. 

It is nothing else just fill'n'print webform, nothing to do with sophisticated Web 2.0 or some mega-database. 

Remember COVID cards and some fancy QR codes? same-same. 

 

I can only imagine the VAST numbers of people who will arrive in Thailand without having done any thing......I still dont get the thing about only getting TDAC 3 days before flying.....This pointless rule could very well sink the whole ship.. 

[proton]

2 hours ago, DrJack54 said:

They have now added Thailand to the list. 

In any event just put passport country. 

 

You would have thought this was the first country they would have included, not the last 

[DrJack54]

2 minutes ago, redwood1 said:

..I still dont get the thing about only getting TDAC 3 days before flying.

The window for doing it opens 3 days prior. You can do it up to departure. 

[BigBilly]

5 minutes ago, redwood1 said:

.I still dont get the thing about only getting TDAC 3 days before flying.....This pointless rule could very well sink the whole ship.. 

It's the exact same thing in many, many countries-- You usually can't fill these out until 2-3 days before departure.  Don't you ever go anywhere besides Thailand?  These things became quite common around the world since covid times.

[DrJack54]

8 minutes ago, proton said:

 

You would have thought this was the first country they would have included, not the last 

Clearly I'm the odd one out. I don't see it as an issue. 

In my mind expats living in Thailand should just put passport country in that field. 

Those with permanent resident status can put Thailand. 

Who really cares.