Yesterday after a paper signing trip to the bank, where they aways make multiple copies of all the documents in my passport, including various TM forms, a 90 day and so on. I put the passport away in a special pouch it always goes in that is zippered shut, failing to check if the loose pages were still there. This A.M. I was looking for a form, and all were gone. My wife called the bank today and asked about the documents. They had nothing. I am sure they got trashed in the overnight cleanup. The teller remembers taking out the documents and making copies of my passport.

Question: Has this happened to anyone here? Do I need top do anything, and if so, what and how?

Why would you keep anything in pp.

Including eg TM30, TM47

What else would you have in pp.

3 minutes ago, DrJack54 said:

Why would you keep anything in pp.

Including eg TM30, TM47

What else would you have in pp.

Do you not take a smartphone photo of every new document and email it to yourself. Not difficult at all.

Plus perhaps every 3 months take a series of photos of all such documents and email all of them to yourself attached to 1 email. Not difficult at all.

That way at least you have a copy of every document.

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I bought this one now for protection and no more Staples for the TM.

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47 minutes ago, PeterA said:

Yesterday after a paper signing trip to the bank, where they aways make multiple copies of all the documents in my passport, including various TM forms, a 90 day and so on. I put the passport away in a special pouch it always goes in that is zippered shut, failing to check if the loose pages were still there. This A.M. I was looking for a form, and all were gone. My wife called the bank today and asked about the documents. They had nothing. I am sure they got trashed in the overnight cleanup. The teller remembers taking out the documents and making copies of my passport.

Question: Has this happened to anyone here? Do I need top do anything, and if so, what and how?

Only TM30 is required, if you don't have one maybe do another one prior to your next extension

I have been at CW Imm. many moons ago and had unbeknownst to me lost either the TM7. or the 90 day receipt slip.

Either way I had to go to the nearest police station to report the loss; return to Imm. and pay a 2000 baht fine.

When I asked where and how to get to the police station they told me there is a row of mocy taxis outside. Apparently almost solely for that purpose.

Edited May 21May 21 by VocalNeal

18 minutes ago, scorecard said:

Do you not take a smartphone photo of every new document and email it to yourself. Not difficult at all.

Most things such as TM47 are already on my phone.

I don't require any of those items for such things as banking, travel etc.

The only time I would need any docs is once a year for extension.

38 minutes ago, DrJack54 said:

Why would you keep anything in pp.

Including eg TM30, TM47

What else would you have in pp.

Probably a good idea to keep the tm30 in the pp as most do and where the IO puts it.

33 minutes ago, scorecard said:

Do you not take a smartphone photo of every new document and email it to yourself. Not difficult at all.

Plus perhaps every 3 months take a series of photos of all such documents and email all of them to yourself attached to 1 email. Not difficult at all.

That way at least you have a copy of every document.

Of course, most certainly.

4 hours ago, novacova said:

Probably a good idea to keep the tm30 in the pp as most do and where the IO puts it.

Don't follow.

Think some folk have tm30, tm47 in pp as maybe io put it there and even worse if stapled.

There is no need to have those items in pp.

If you are attending immigration for a service eg annual extension then present all required docs.

32 minutes ago, DrJack54 said:

Don't follow.

Think some folk have tm30, tm47 in pp as maybe io put it there and even worse if stapled.

There is no need to have those items in pp.

If you are attending immigration for a service eg annual extension then present all required docs.

The immigration office staples it in the passport, so why then remove it? It makes no sense. Just leave it be until another is needed. That little TM-30 slip of paper is probably the easiest thing to lose in the paper shuffle. It stays in my passport that doesn’t get moved often. **If you don’t want it stapled in then let them know.

4 minutes ago, ArchieBunker said:

If you don’t want it stapled in then let them know.

And that's exactly what people should do.

Not about to debate however what Thai immigration do by stapling whatever into pp is illegal.

It's a Thai habit.

So final statement... I have never ever had erroneous docs in my pp.

Never an issue in 15+ years.

Why have anything in your pp.

Not necessary

3 minutes ago, DrJack54 said:

And that's exactly what people should do.

Not about to debate however what Thai immigration do by stapling whatever into pp is illegal.

It's a Thai habit.

So final statement... I have never ever had erroneous docs in my pp.

Never an issue in 15+ years.

Why have anything in your pp.

Not necessary

To each their own. Yours is not mine.

35 minutes ago, ArchieBunker said:

To each their own. Yours is not mine.

Perhaps include your annual Lease + map to address + bank records attached to your pp.

Ridiculous.

Please outline how Tm30 etc attached to your pp assists you

9 hours ago, PeterA said:

Question: Has this happened to anyone here? Do I need top do anything, and if so, what and how?

What's missing? A 90-day report receipt/next due date? A TM-30 copy?

If it's these two, and you've done the recent 90-day report online, it's easy to print a copy from either the website--'check status'--or the email confirming APPROVED.

The TM-30 is almost entirely an online affair, with exceptions for those who've gotten the document from an immigration office, applying with the required copies of contract, address, etc. Online? You can get it replaced by making a new one.

What other 'papers' would possibly be attached to your passport?

Pro tip: Do not keep the two above items attached to your passport. Keep them in your 'doc folder' and present them from that folder for any related tasks at immigration. Don't fold them and have them attached or stapled in the passport, making the passport even bulkier to carry around...and potentially having them go missing somehow after you've handed the passport over for one of the many things a passport is asked for here. And if you do keep them in the passport, check it immediately after it's handed back to you to make sure the 'papers' are still there. (Which is why it's better not to put them in there in the first place.)

Edited May 21May 21 by rwilem

16 hours ago, DrJack54 said:

Why would you keep anything in pp.

Including eg TM30, TM47

What else would you have in pp.

Because on the TM47 it states Keep in Passport

So even though the TM47 says keep in passport, you're saying no need to?

I keep my passport in a passport holder, and receipts from immigration as well. When i go to a bank, I hand over only my passport. They have no interest in any of those other papers and I'm not surprised to hear that some clerks are careless enough to lose them.

''Don't fold them and have them attached or stapled in the passport, making the passport even bulkier to carry around..''

Note to self, go to gym more often so I am able to carry those bulky documents about.......

11 minutes ago, ozfarang said:

So even though the TM47 says keep in passport, you're saying no need to?

Definitely.

Whenever I hand over my passport, at a bank, immigration, hotel, etc. to be photocopied or viewed, when I get the passport back, I always, always, check that any attached pages/documents are present and accounted for.

20 hours ago, PeterA said:

Question: Has this happened to anyone here?

No, I don't have loose papers in my passport, only the mandatory stapled receipt of 90-days report.

8 minutes ago, khunPer said:

No, I don't have loose papers in my passport, only the mandatory stapled receipt of 90-days report.

Mandatory?

The TM47 receipt does not need to be in passport.

keep both 90 day and TM 30 stapled in PP and note new 90 day upon return as that is up to you to do

22 hours ago, PeterA said:

. I put the passport away in a special pouch it always goes in that is zippered shut, failing to check if the loose pages were still there. This A.M. I was looking for a form, and all were gone.

Apart from the OP who has disappeared, do we know what exactly were all gone.

13 minutes ago, SAFETY FIRST said:

Apart from the OP who has disappeared, do we know what exactly were all gone.

Read the OP.

1 minute ago, Andrew Dwyer said:

Read the OP.

YOU read the OP

6 hours ago, ozfarang said:

Because on the TM47 it states Keep in Passport

So even though the TM47 says keep in passport, you're saying no need to?

Thai immigration states that to keep in pp, a poster on AN says not to. Which is more credible and what side to error on?

6 minutes ago, novacova said:

Thai immigration states that to keep in pp, a poster on AN says not to. Which is more credible and what side to error on?

TM47 receipt is not required to be kept in pp.

On 5/21/2026 at 10:32 AM, scorecard said:

Do you not take a smartphone photo of every new document and email it to yourself. Not difficult at all.

Plus perhaps every 3 months take a series of photos of all such documents and email all of them to yourself attached to 1 email. Not difficult at all.

That way at least you have a copy of every document.

I photo every necessary document. Your email cant get lost.