On 8/10/2025 at 12:09 AM, BrandonJT said:

 

Because the TM6 number used to be required for all of these.  The form still has that section asking for it.  Now that the TM6 is replaced by the TDAC, some offices are now starting to require the TDAC number where the old TM6 number was required.

 

Good point.

I've added it to the ever increasing pile of stuff needed for my annual extension.

Last Sunday, I helped a friend fill out the form on https://tdac.immigration.go.th/arrival-card/#/home for her flight on Monday.

 

On page 2, under "Accommodation Information", she knew the name of the hotel she was booked at in Pattaya but not the province. I happened to know that it is Chonburi and the pop-up for that field provided CHON BURI.

 

For the required field "Address", she knew neither the "Moo" number nor the street address and therefore typed only "Hotel Royal Cliff Grande, Pattaya", clicked on "Continue", and this brought her to the next page. At the end, she got the email confirmation within seconds, despite the incomplete hotel address.

4 hours ago, Puccini said:

Last Sunday, I helped a friend fill out the form on https://tdac.immigration.go.th/arrival-card/#/home for her flight on Monday.

 

On page 2, under "Accommodation Information", she knew the name of the hotel she was booked at in Pattaya but not the province. I happened to know that it is Chonburi and the pop-up for that field provided CHON BURI.

 

For the required field "Address", she knew neither the "Moo" number nor the street address and therefore typed only "Hotel Royal Cliff Grande, Pattaya", clicked on "Continue", and this brought her to the next page. At the end, she got the email confirmation within seconds, despite the incomplete hotel address.

Out if interest, were all the fields marked as mandatory?

I believe (from reading this thread) the mandatory ones prevent you from advancing to the next page if you leave them blank, but that some fields are optional and let you continue.

Just asking as I haven't done a TDAC yet.

5 hours ago, VBF said:

Out if interest, were all the fields marked as mandatory?...

Yes, they were mandatory, ie marked with a red asterisk. I had her fill in only the mandatory fields.

 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1I1SF7RgSSrjfs9Y6oEZOikpZ0cs1MjlT/view?usp=drive_link

8 minutes ago, Puccini said:

Yes, they were mandatory, ie marked with a red asterisk. I had her fill in only the mandatory fields.

 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1I1SF7RgSSrjfs9Y6oEZOikpZ0cs1MjlT/view?usp=drive_link

Thanks - thus confirming that the other fields truly are optional, as i thought.,

On 4/19/2025 at 3:35 AM, KannikaP said:

Ah, you mean tell lies?

Technically, possibly, yes. 

 

I assume it's based on the fact that,  Thai citizens don't need a TDAC, so there's no point having Thailand on there. Of course a Thai citizen could be resident outside of Thailand and I know one myself. It seems to be badly worded, which is not uncommon when filling in forms and particularly in Thailand as they seem to have a problem getting a native English speaker to check what they translated, although sometimes it doesn't make sense in Thai either. Since they've not included Thailand as a place of residence I'd take it they mean nationality, as on your passport.

 

Residence is a very flexible thing. You need to prove residence in Thailand to get certain things, like a driving licence but if you have a type O non immigrant visa based on marriage I think it's for the purpose of visiting and staying with your wife

 

Residence in the UK comes in a few forms. Tax residence. Habitual residence. Ordinarily resident, and this can be in more than one country. Some departments use other definitions that can be very confusing and variable. 

2 hours ago, kimamey said:

Technically, possibly, yes. 

 

I assume it's based on the fact that,  Thai citizens don't need a TDAC, so there's no point having Thailand on there. Of course a Thai citizen could be resident outside of Thailand and I know one myself. It seems to be badly worded, which is not uncommon when filling in forms and particularly in Thailand as they seem to have a problem getting a native English speaker to check what they translated, although sometimes it doesn't make sense in Thai either. Since they've not included Thailand as a place of residence I'd take it they mean nationality, as on your passport.

 

Residence is a very flexible thing. You need to prove residence in Thailand to get certain things, like a driving licence but if you have a type O non immigrant visa based on marriage I think it's for the purpose of visiting and staying with your wife

 

Residence in the UK comes in a few forms. Tax residence. Habitual residence. Ordinarily resident, and this can be in more than one country. Some departments use other definitions that can be very confusing and variable. 

Why are you replying to a comment from April? They added Thailand as an option months ago.

On 8/26/2025 at 12:38 PM, BrandonJT said:

Why are you replying to a comment from April? They added Thailand as an option months ago.

Firstly because I've just seen it and i was replying to what was said.  I have to do it myself in a few days but I've no idea if anything had changed until I do.  If anything it might make it more complicated. I move between Thailand and the UK, recently more UK than Thailand, but previously more Thailand.  My nationality is simple, but my residence,  less so.

So those with PR have to enter the reentry permit number?

We don't have visas.

6 minutes ago, Purdey said:

So those with PR have to enter the reentry permit number?

We don't have visas.

 

Yes. Either enter your Re-entry permit number or leave it blank.  It's not a required field.

6 hours ago, kimamey said:

Firstly because I've just seen it and i was replying to what was said.  I have to do it myself in a few days but I've no idea if anything had changed until I do.  If anything it might make it more complicated. I move between Thailand and the UK, recently more UK than Thailand, but previously more Thailand.  My nationality is simple, but my residence,  less so.

Nothing makes it more complicated.  It literally doesn't matter.  It's all automated, no one checks anything. Put in whatever you want.

6 hours ago, Purdey said:

So those with PR have to enter the reentry permit number?...

 

No.

 

Last time I looked, a minute ago, the field "Visa No." was still not a compulsory field, ie not marked with a red asterisk. Please see for yourself:

 

https://tdac.immigration.go.th/arrival-card/#/tac/arrival-card/add

On 8/9/2025 at 8:55 AM, Felt 35 said:

 

😐Yes, I'm aware of that but did not know it was so detailed. But I found out because when they stopped stamping passports on departure then the regional tax office demanded my travel history to see if I was actually in Thailand more than 180 days in the year so I could get my annual "Income tax payment certificate" (Yes they are not overly interested in us paying taxes) Previously when the passport was stamped on departure and entry it was enough with passport copies. So, I visited the immigration who printed out all my travel history with pictures and that from different areas at Suvarnabhumi exit /entry all the way back to when I last got a new passport 5 years ago😮

Felt

So the immigration office doesn't need the passport(s) any more to issue a certificate of having stayed in Thailand more than 180 days per year? That's not a bad thing. Old passports can get lost (or withheld by one's embassy). On the other hand, the passport no longer getting stamped when you cross borders is not good. It means the passport and its stamps now have little value as proof of stay in or outside a country.

On 8/26/2025 at 10:54 AM, kimamey said:

Technically, possibly, yes. 

 

I assume it's based on the fact that,  Thai citizens don't need a TDAC, so there's no point having Thailand on there. ...

Thai citizens with dual nationality could travel on a non-Thai passport?

59 minutes ago, JackGats said:

On 8/26/2025 at 9:54 AM, kimamey said:

Technically, possibly, yes. 

 

I assume it's based on the fact that,  Thai citizens don't need a TDAC, so there's no point having Thailand on there. ...

Thai citizens with dual nationality could travel on a non-Thai passport?

 

They could – but that would be straying a little outside the lines, and Thailand isn’t particularly adept at handling that sort of nuance.

 

In practice, anyone arriving in such a situation would sidestep the quirk with ease – simply by listing the country of their ‘other’ passport as their place of residence, or more straightforwardly, by entering on their Thai passport. It’s hardly an issue that demands serious thought, except perhaps from the most pedantic among us.

 

 

The common sense simple 'Farang do not think too mutt' response is below... 

1 hour ago, BrandonJT said:

Nothing makes it more complicated.  It literally doesn't matter.  It's all automated, no one checks anything. Put in whatever you want.

 

On 8/28/2025 at 5:45 PM, JackGats said:

So the immigration office doesn't need the passport(s) any more to issue a certificate of having stayed in Thailand more than 180 days per year...

 

What form is used to apply for this certificate?

25 minutes ago, Maestro said:

 

What form is used to apply for this certificate?

 

it's called an Application For Travel Record and can be seen here:

 

https://aseannow.com/topic/1344081-savarnabhumi-airport-departure-through-electronic-passport-control/page/3/#findComment-19463050

 

Thank you.

On 8/28/2025 at 4:45 PM, JackGats said:

So the immigration office doesn't need the passport(s) any more to issue a certificate of having stayed in Thailand more than 180 days per year? That's not a bad thing. Old passports can get lost (or withheld by one's embassy). On the other hand, the passport no longer getting stamped when you cross borders is not good. It means the passport and its stamps now have little value as proof of stay in or outside a country.

If you need to keep such records for whatever reason, why not keep air tickets / boarding cards. My suggestion would be to keep tickets for a particular trip together in a zip file with an appropriate name. It's not like years ago when it was all on paper, after all.

13 minutes ago, VBF said:

If you need to keep such records for whatever reason, why not keep air tickets / boarding cards. My suggestion would be to keep tickets for a particular trip together in a zip file with an appropriate name. It's not like years ago when it was all on paper, after all.

Tickets are no good because you can buy tickets and not travel. But even boarding cards are partial proof only. Nobody can tell if you didn't travel in between entry and exit.

 

1) September 1st Paris-Bangkok

2) September 15th Bangkok-Paris

3) June 1st Paris-Bangkok

4) June 15th Bangkok-Paris

 

Keep 1) and 2) but throw away 2) and 3). Were you living most of the time in Thailand or in France?

 

Nothing can replace old-style passport stamps, except (for Thailand only) the certificate of travel record from Immigration.

1 minute ago, JackGats said:

Tickets are no good because you can buy tickets and not travel. But even boarding cards are partial proof only. Nobody can tell if you didn't travel in between entry and exit.

 

1) September 1st Paris-Bangkok

2) September 15th Bangkok-Paris

3) June 1st Paris-Bangkok

4) June 15th Bangkok-Paris

 

Keep 1) and 2) but throw away 2) and 3). Were you living most of the time in Thailand or in France?

 

Nothing can replace old-style passport stamps, except (for Thailand only) the certificate of travel record from Immigration.

Good point - I didn't think that through, did I?

On 8/28/2025 at 10:03 PM, BrandonJT said:

Nothing makes it more complicated.  It literally doesn't matter.  It's all automated, no one checks anything. Put in whatever you want.

How do you know that? The girl today loaded mine on her screen btw.

 

Now I will say nothing about anyones reasons are for not doing one, whatever, but the line was six deep this morning at Swampy waiting to use the kiosks to do the tdacs.

56 minutes ago, Yagoda said:

How do you know that? The girl today loaded mine on her screen btw.

 

Now I will say nothing about anyones reasons are for not doing one, whatever, but the line was six deep this morning at Swampy waiting to use the kiosks to do the tdacs.

Because there is no mechanism for rejecting a TDAC.  The only "check" is that you submitted one.  That's it.  Put whatever you want on it.  It's not rocket science, and it's not important.

6 hours ago, BrandonJT said:

Because there is no mechanism for rejecting a TDAC.  The only "check" is that you submitted one.  That's it.  Put whatever you want on it.  It's not rocket science, and it's not important.

So in other words you don't know. You don't know if they compare what you say your address is to what the hotel report your address is. The fact you were certifying everything as true and complete under Thai law means nothing.

 

your recommendation is just lie on an official form. That's a real smart move in these days of computers and immigration crackdown

38 minutes ago, Yagoda said:

So in other words you don't know. You don't know if they compare what you say your address is to what the hotel report your address is. The fact you were certifying everything as true and complete under Thai law means nothing.

How can they compare at entry until you check in and the hotel files a TM30.
And if it's different from where you intended to stay, the other hotel still files a TM30.

 

The form is approved in seconds, they don't have time to check anything.

2 hours ago, Yagoda said:

So in other words you don't know. You don't know if they compare what you say your address is to what the hotel report your address is. The fact you were certifying everything as true and complete under Thai law means nothing.

You are  wrong on this one. 

Nothing will be confirmed re address. 

 

Think of the TDAC as a replacement of the TM6. 

The address you put for hotel is pretty much irrelevant. 

They have your pp details from the form and that's pretty much all the information that is significant

11 hours ago, Yagoda said:

So in other words you don't know. You don't know if they compare what you say your address is to what the hotel report your address is. The fact you were certifying everything as true and complete under Thai law means nothing.

 

your recommendation is just lie on an official form. That's a real smart move in these days of computers and immigration crackdown

So you read a suggestion to not stress out about something that doesn't matter as encouraging to lie?  Okay, I guess that's how your brain works.

5 hours ago, BrandonJT said:

So you read a suggestion to not stress out about something that doesn't matter as encouraging to lie?  Okay, I guess that's how your brain works.

Dude said put anything on the on the form, because no one checks. Guess you and I have different versions of What the truth is. 

20 hours ago, Yagoda said:

Dudes everyone is entitled to do what they want, I always fill out government forms accurately and completely

I prefer to fill them in minimally. I don't lie but I only ever complete the mandatory parts, so if a section may be left blank, it is!

"Need to know" and all that.

1 hour ago, VBF said:

I prefer to fill them in minimally. I don't lie but I only ever complete the mandatory parts, so if a section may be left blank, it is!

"Need to know" and all that.

Well duh I don't disagree with that. Name rank and  serial number