TM.30 post TDAC. Anyone doing them?

[2long]

Our local immigration office isn't far from home and every time I enter Thailand I send my wife to to TM.30 and encourage her to ask them to help her set up the app. She once had it on her old phone.

The website for this feature is was than dire.

She called them today and seems to think that they have told her that with TDAC (and me completing it) there's no need for TM.30 but will be a need for 90-days if I stay that long.

Is anyone else doing TM.30s these days now we have TDAC?

BTW I have a DTV.

 

As I write this, she's on the phone to them again.... and apparently there's no need because it's the same house.

[BrandonJT]

40 minutes ago, 2long said:

Our local immigration office isn't far from home and every time I enter Thailand I send my wife to to TM.30 and encourage her to ask them to help her set up the app. She once had it on her old phone.

The website for this feature is was than dire.

She called them today and seems to think that they have told her that with TDAC (and me completing it) there's no need for TM.30 but will be a need for 90-days if I stay that long.

Is anyone else doing TM.30s these days now we have TDAC?

BTW I have a DTV.

 

As I write this, she's on the phone to them again.... and apparently there's no need because it's the same house.

If you're not going to stay 90 days, don't worry about TM30.  If you plan to do a 90-day report, then it would be best to do it. TDAC doesn't change the legal requirement of the TM30 at all.  TDAC is from the Tourism Authority, has nothing to do with immigration.

 

Each immigration sets their own policy on the TM30 though.  And some don't require a new TM30 if you are returning to the same address as before.  Though most often it is required after leaving Thailand and returning, but some are okay with the old one.

[Caldera]

55 minutes ago, BrandonJT said:

TDAC is from the Tourism Authority, has nothing to do with immigration.

 

That is very obviously nonsense, the TDAC system is operated by immigration. The domain (tdac.immigration.go.th)  might give you a clue. The confirmation email also comes from immigration ([email protected]), and the IO you see when entering the country checks that you've submitted it.

 

But it just replaced the paper arrival card, so you're right that it doesn't change or remove the TM30 requirement.

 

As with the paper version, I'd guess they share some information with the TAT.