On 7/24/2026 at 6:24 PM, BrandonJT said:

The official rule is reporting within 24 hours. Since immigration will be closed by the time you return home, you can report on Monday.

The documents you listed are generally enough to file a TM30. You'll also need to fill out the TM30 form. You may need the owner to sign the copies of their housebook and ID card as well.

If this is a common occurrence, you might consider asking the owner to register for the online TM30 website, or asking them if you can use their documents to register an account yourself.

Just out of interest what happens if you will be staying at your wife's house and therefore won't have a rental contract?

I'm thinking about getting my wife to register on the online TM30 website but may end up having to do it for her myself. Do I need anything more from her other than signed copies of her housebook and ID card?

Edited July 27Jul 27 by Colonel_Mustard

13 minutes ago, Colonel_Mustard said:

Just out of interest what happens if you will be staying at your wife's house and therefore won't have a rental contract?

I'm thinking about getting my wife to register on the online TM30 website but may end up having to do it for her myself. Do I need anything more from her other than signed copies of her housebook and ID card?

What does a rental contract have to do with anything?

You can go to the TM30 website and check the help section showing what is required to register an address.

2 hours ago, BrandonJT said:

What does a rental contract have to do with anything?

The poster you were replying to asked:

Can I go alone with a copy of the rental contract, Tabien Baan, and the owner's Thai ID?

You replied:

The documents you listed are generally enough to file a TM30.

So I was just wondering if I needed to do a rental contract with my wife or if it isn't required in that case.

1 hour ago, Colonel_Mustard said:

The poster you were replying to asked:

Can I go alone with a copy of the rental contract, Tabien Baan, and the owner's Thai ID?

You replied:

The documents you listed are generally enough to file a TM30.

So I was just wondering if I needed to do a rental contract with my wife or if it isn't required in that case.

A rental contract is not required for a TM30 unless you are in one of the few places that will allow a tenant to submit a TM30 without ANY information from the owner (Bangkok is one). Otherwise you need the copies of the owner information. If you have that, then not needed at all.

On 7/26/2026 at 3:06 PM, Palatus said:

So? By Thai law, the person who owns the property—such as a landlord, a host, or a hotel manager—is the one required to fill out and submit the TM30. The foreigner staying there is the subject of the form, but rarely the one actually doing the paperwork.

No, the law states it's the responsibility of the The house – master , the owner or the possessor (private residence) , or the hotel manager (hotels, guest houses).

The Immigration Act defines the“ House Master ” as; means any persons who is the chief possessor of a house , whether in the capacity of owner , tenant , or in any other capacity whatsoever.

So the foreign owner or tenant is just as responsible as any Thai landlord to file.
I've always registered and filed as a 'foreigner', using a copy of my passport data page and copies of the owners Tabien Baan and ID card.

On 7/26/2026 at 3:08 PM, Explorator en Action said:

Seems everywhere is different - my Condo Mgt team told me I didn’t have to fill out the from for myself for a short visit inside Thailand since I am the owner, I just spent a week in Bangkok Hospital, when I get back to Jom Tien am I supposed to go and update he form??

That depends on your local IO.
Prior to July 2020, section 38 of the Immigration Act required foreigners to refile a new TM30 if they visited another Province, or returned from an overseas trip.

In June of 2020, Immigration published a new regulation repealing and amending section 38 of the Immigration Act to the effect that if after visiting another Province or returning from overseas to your permanent address already registered with Immigration, then a new TM30 was no longer required.

However not all Immigration offices appear to comply with the new regulation, or are not aware of it's existence.

New TM30 regulation.

Regulation of Royal Thai Police on notification of a householder, owner or possessor of dwelling place or hotel manager, who takes in, as a resident, an alien permitted to temporary stay in the Kingdom. It is deemed expedient to amend the regulation of Royal Thai Police on notification of a householder, owner or possessor of dwelling place or hotel manager, who takes in, as a resident, an alien permitted to temporary stay in the Kingdom dated May 25, 1979 (B.E. 2522) in order to conform with the directions of national development and strategies for transforming government sector to digital government as well as to facilitate aliens staying in Thailand under the maintenance of national security standards.

By virtue of Section 38, Paragraph 3 of the Immigration Act B.E. 2522 (A.D. 1979) the Commissioner General of Royal Thai Police herby issues the regulation prescribing notification of a householder, owner or possessor of dwelling place or hotel manager, who takes in, as a resident, an alien permitted to temporary stay in the Kingdom as follows:

1. Repeal the regulation of Royal Thai Police on notification of a householder, owner or possessor of a dwelling place or hotel manager, who takes in, as a resident, an alien permitted to temporary stay in the Kingdom dated May 25, 1979 (B.E. 2522);

2. Notification of a householder, owner or possessor of dwelling place or hotel manager, who takes in, as a resident, an alien permitted to temporary stay in the Kingdom must proceed as follows;

2.1 Notify a competent official at an Immigration office located in a locality in which the house, dwelling place or hotel is located within twenty four hours from the time an alien has taken residence. In case that house, dwelling place or hotel, where an alien has stayed, is located in Bangkok Metropolis locality, such notification shall be made to a competent official at Immigration Division 1 of Immigration Bureau.

2.2 After a householder, owner or possessor of dwelling place or hotel manager already made a notification according to 2.1, then the alien goes to occasionally stay somewhere else and return to stay at the original place within the notified period of stay that has not yet ended, such householder, owner or possessor of dwelling place or hotel manager is not required to make a notification again.

The alien mentioned in paragraph 1 shall include any alien receiving a multiply entry visa who departs the Kingdom and returns within the validity of visa and any alien permitted to re-enter into the Kingdom with a valid re-entry permit.

3. Subject to the article 2, a householder, owner or possessor of dwelling place or hotel manager may make notification in person or assign others to submit a letter of notification or send it by registered mail or via the electronic notification system of Immigration Bureau.

4. Notification of receiving an alien to stay as a resident according to the article 3, shall be in accordance with the criteria, conditions and supporting documents as prescribed by Immigration Bureau.

5. A competent official who receives a notification shall issue an evidence of notification for those who notified.

6. The notification form attached to this regulation shall be used in case of making a notification in person or assigning others to submit a letter of notification or sending it by registered mail. An evidence of notification and receiving a notification via the electronic system shall be in accordance with the form prescribed by Immigration Bureau.

This regulation is effective from June 30, 2020 onwards.

Issued on June5, 2020

Police General Chakthip Chaijinda

Commissioner General of Royal Thai Police

Edited July 28Jul 28 by Liquorice

8 hours ago, Colonel_Mustard said:

The poster you were replying to asked:

Can I go alone with a copy of the rental contract, Tabien Baan, and the owner's Thai ID?

You replied:

The documents you listed are generally enough to file a TM30.

So I was just wondering if I needed to do a rental contract with my wife or if it isn't required in that case.

You don't need to provide a rental agreement with your wife.

For marriage extension provide:

• Copy of Wife's bluebook pages (if there any other thais in her blue book you don't need to provide copy of their pages).

• A TM30

Note that I last did a TM30 in 2019. The receipt slip has an imm officers handwriting. Not sure what it says but I just provide a copy of that slip every extension inliue of doing a new TM30.

To the best of my knowledge we have never had to provide any documentation that the house we live in as referred to in the Blue book belongs to my wife.

I stay at the Thai relatives place Phuket and always do the TM30 myself.

Heading to BKK for a few days and booked an Airbnb. I guess the owner wouldn't do the TM30?
Think they would need your passport to do it anyway and can't remember adding that info Airbnb.

...so don't worry about it?

1 hour ago, BaanOz said:

I stay at the Thai relatives place Phuket and always do the TM30 myself.

Heading to BKK for a few days and booked an Airbnb. I guess the owner wouldn't do the TM30?
Think they would need your passport to do it anyway and can't remember adding that info Airbnb.

...so don't worry about it?

The Airbnb host may or may not ask for your passport when you check in. Even if they do ask, that doesn't necessarily mean that they file a TM30 notification, so if you're unsure you should ask.

7 hours ago, Caldera said:

The Airbnb host may or may not ask for your passport when you check in. Even if they do ask, that doesn't necessarily mean that they file a TM30 notification, so if you're unsure you should ask.

Interesting thread. Yet again the usual "depends on your immigration office"

In Aug I will spend week in Pattaya (live Bangkok)

The regular 3 star hotel I stay will insist upon my pp.

I have asked previously what she flicking through my pp.

Reply '"your stamp"

She means "permission of stay stamp"

Do I do make a TM30 when back to bangkok week later?

Absolutely NOT.

Never had an issue.

Obviously some offices take a different view (CM possibly example)

On 7/24/2026 at 4:29 PM, DrJack54 said:

Which immigration office do you deal with.

Will you be having interaction with immigration?

I live in Bangkok and regularly travel to places such as Pattaya etc.

Never have I filed a TM30 for stay on "holiday" at another address.

I recently did an inperson 90 day report after a reentry. The IO asked if I lived in Sakon Nakhon because the hotel I stayed at for 2 nts did the tm 30 555. First time ever a hotel filed this paper.

It was no big deal, she just asked I renew the tm 47 stapled into passport. That lady asked why I did my extension in Chonburi instead of Rayong office. I just said " I wanted to" same way I do my DL in Chonburi.

Edited July 29Jul 29 by EVENKEEL