Immigration Thailand Digital Arrival Card. TDAC

[Ralf001]

3 hours ago, CallumWK said:

So, if living in Thailand, no residence in your homecountry anymore for decades, what do you enter as country of residence and city of residence?

This has been covered dozens of times in this thread, you select Thailand.

[Hummin]

36 minutes ago, Maestro said:

 

Interesting.

 

When was that, at what airport, checking in for a flight of what airline?

Emirates 

[proton]

Tried to change it, data not saved, did another one no email arrived

[proton]

Wont let you change the departure date where I should not have entered anything to none and then enter address, tried 3 times. Can you cancel it and start again?

[CallumWK]

2 hours ago, Ralf001 said:

This has been covered dozens of times in this thread, you select Thailand.

 

 

No Thailand available for me

 

Edit : see it now available if I type in Thailand manually, so the sorting of the countries is a mess, as expected.

 

Nongplalai or Banglamung as city not available, only Pattaya, where I don't live of course

[Ralf001]

3 minutes ago, CallumWK said:

 

No Thailand available for me

 

Ohh ok.

It is there for me.

[hotsun]

The immigration officer didnt even care about it. I tried to show him the QR code for the tdac

[Ralf001]

Just now, hotsun said:

The immigration officer didnt even care about it. I tried to show him the QR code for the tdac

had he/she already scanned your passport ?

[CallumWK]

3 minutes ago, Ralf001 said:

 

Ohh ok.

It is there for me.

 

Try to read my post before making claims Jerome

[Crossy]

1 minute ago, hotsun said:

The immigration officer didnt even care about it. I tried to show him the QR code for the tdac

 

My understanding is that it pops up on their screen automagically when they scan your passport, they only ask if it doesn't.

[Upnotover]

42 minutes ago, CallumWK said:

Nongplalai or Banglamung as city not available, only Pattaya, where I don't live of course

CHON BURI.  Sorted.

[CallumWK]

Just now, Upnotover said:

CHON BURI.  Sorted.

 

I don't live in Chonburi CITY, and it doesn't ask me for the province

[TheMysteriousMrTesla]

Surely anyone with a modicum of common would just enter the closest available location?

 

Looks like someone won't be coming to Thailand

[Upnotover]

7 minutes ago, CallumWK said:

 

I don't live in Chonburi CITY, and it doesn't ask me for the province

It asks for city/state. State=province.  Stop being deliberately obtuse.

[Burgo1979]

I returned to Thailand last week. Filled out tdac online and put under 'others please specify' 'Thai Family' as well as my extension of stay number as i was returning with my wife and kids. For some reason this stopped me from putting any address in Thailand on the online form (maybe as my extension of stay number shows the address already?)

 

We went thro the Thai channel at immigration and i showed him my printout, all was fine except he asked me for my address, which was on the receipt of notification in my passport which he then entered into the system

[JackGats]

It seems that where the TDAC asks "please list the names of the countries where you stayed within two weeks before arrival?", only one country can be chosen from the drop-down menu. Can anyone confirm this?

 

This would be a major bug in the TDAC since you can then enter the least controversial country you stayed in with respect to diseases etc.

[Hummin]

10 hours ago, Maestro said:

 

Interesting.

 

When was that, at what airport, checking in for a flight of what airline?

Emirates at Airport Oslo asked for proof of arrival card.

 

Went through priority line emigration with my pink card, no questions asked by emigration officer about arrival card. 
 

saw several who walked the opposite direction after being turned down, which I suppose was because of no arrival card.

 

[Upnotover]

3 hours ago, JackGats said:

It seems that where the TDAC asks "please list the names of the countries where you stayed within two weeks before arrival?", only one country can be chosen from the drop-down menu. Can anyone confirm this?

 

This would be a major bug in the TDAC since you can then enter the least controversial country you stayed in with respect to diseases etc.

No.  You can type multiple countries in that field.  Just type 3 or 4 characters from the country name and select.  Then add another.

[Caldera]

4 hours ago, JackGats said:

It seems that where the TDAC asks "please list the names of the countries where you stayed within two weeks before arrival?", only one country can be chosen from the drop-down menu. Can anyone confirm this?

 

After you've selected one, you can select an additional one.

 

I did that just this morning when I re-entered Thailand - I selected the country that I visited plus Thailand, because I stayed in Thailand less than two weeks ago. That worked fine.

[DrJack54]

I found this guys blog clear and useful. 

 

[impulse]

Just another data point, I'm sure.  I successfully filled it out in China, with departure point in China, residence in the USA, and countries in the past 2 weeks being China.  I didn't get the email yet after 24 hours or so, but I printed out the page and also saved it to a PDF.  No QR code.  Just an "Arrival Card Number" with my name, passport # and date of arrival.

 

I'll post back if I have any issues in China or BKK tomorrow.

[Caldera]

2 hours ago, impulse said:

Just another data point, I'm sure.  I successfully filled it out in China, with departure point in China, residence in the USA, and countries in the past 2 weeks being China.  I didn't get the email yet after 24 hours or so, but I printed out the page and also saved it to a PDF.  No QR code.  Just an "Arrival Card Number" with my name, passport # and date of arrival.

 

I'll post back if I have any issues in China or BKK tomorrow.

 

You don't really need the email, but I'm wondering why you didn't download the PDF with the QR code after submitting your data.

[impulse]

1 hour ago, Caldera said:

You don't really need the email, but I'm wondering why you didn't download the PDF with the QR code after submitting your data.

 

The only option I saw was to print out the page, which didn't have a QR code.  Just a number.  So I printed it and PDF'ed it.  

 

[ronnie50]

I'm outside of Thailand trying to fill in this thing and I cannot get into the section on accommodation. At accommodation section, all fields stay grey and will not offer any drop down. It keeps sending sytax error 502 and 503. No idea what that means. Tried Edge, Chrome, my iPhone - nothing works to get me into that section. I'm definitely within the 3 day window for arrival.

 

Anyone else encountered this or have advice?

[Maestro]

11 hours ago, ronnie50 said:

...Anyone else encountered this or have advice?

 

Could you post a screenshot of page where you encounter this problem?

[impulse]

On 5/13/2025 at 4:26 PM, impulse said:

Just another data point, I'm sure.  I successfully filled it out in China, with departure point in China, residence in the USA, and countries in the past 2 weeks being China.  I didn't get the email yet after 24 hours or so, but I printed out the page and also saved it to a PDF.  No QR code.  Just an "Arrival Card Number" with my name, passport # and date of arrival.

 

I'll post back if I have any issues in China or BKK tomorrow.

 

Came in last night with no problems.  (and no QR, just a sheet printed with my passport #, DTAC number and date of arrival) 

 

But they were sending around 1 in 3 or 4 travelers back to get their DTAC in order when it was their turn in the queue.  Most of the arrivals had their data on their smartphone screen- no paper and that was fine.  Some had nuthin'.  That wasn't fine.  Though the queue was short just after midnight, it was very slow.  Looks like they're still dialing it in.  I'd have hated to arrive at peak time.

 

The DTAC machines in the foyer on the way to immigrations had no queue at all, but they were off to the left and not very clearly marked, (around where the VOA's were issued).

[brewsterbudgen]

13 minutes ago, impulse said:

 

Came in last night with no problems.  (and no QR, just a sheet printed with my passport #, DTAC number and date of arrival) 

 

But they were sending around 1 in 3 or 4 travelers back to get their DTAC in order when it was their turn in the queue.  Most of the arrivals had their data on their smartphone screen- no paper and that was fine.  Some had nuthin'.  That wasn't fine.  Though the queue was short just after midnight, it was very slow.  Looks like they're still dialing it in.  I'd have hated to arrive at peak time.

 

The DTAC machines in the foyer on the way to immigrations had no queue at all, but they were off to the left and not very clearly marked, (around where the VOA's were issued).

I arrived at peak time on 1 May.  It took well over 30 minutes to get through.

[impulse]

1 minute ago, brewsterbudgen said:

I arrived at peak time on 1 May.  It took well over 30 minutes to get through.

 

Unfortunate, but I remember 2 hour queues before Covid. They've improved a lot, also at the taxi stand.  What a difference!

 

I got through just as my bag got dumped on the luggage carousel.  So, perfect timing...

[brewsterbudgen]

Just now, impulse said:

 

Unfortunate, but I remember 2 hour queues before Covid. They've improved a lot, also at the taxi stand.  What a difference!

 

I got through just as my bag got dumped on the luggage carousel.  So, perfect timing...

Yeah, it wasn't so bad.  I just wish the queue ,management was better. 

[ronnie50]

8 hours ago, Maestro said:

 

Could you post a screenshot of page where you encounter this problem?

Sorry,  thought I replied to this. It worked today and I have the QR (which I will also print out as others have done in case they ask at airline check in.). I must have been making some errors in the departure fields and that wouldn't let me move on to accommodation. Still a bit of a mystery. Anyway, worked in the end - thanks.