19 minutes ago, treetops said:

"Application for Travel Record" available from your local Immigration office will suffice.

Ok and nowadays Immigration wants for 90 day notification copy of your passport, the latest extension page and the latest entry stamp.... How will I get that than? I have TDAC but that is not enough....

12 minutes ago, ikke1959 said:

Ok and nowadays Immigration wants for 90 day notification copy of your passport, the latest extension page and the latest entry stamp.... How will I get that than? I have TDAC but that is not enough....

Don't you think for a minute that their requirements might change as the procedures change? (Rhetorical question).

They'll probably announce the names of the countries when they finish sleeping.

On 8/19/2026 at 4:28 AM, Georgealbert said:

The expansion is expected to create about 6.5 million visitors, as potential Auto Gate users, in addition to 900,000 long-term visa holders.

I still prefer to get a stamp to avoid hassles later (not necessarily with Imm). For example, hotels, banks, others, when asking for your passport are often looking for the page with the arrival stamp. But if you arrive through one of the gates, there won't be a stamp. Whomever is looking for that, will only see the departure stamp. Not sure this has been entirely thought through with a multi-Ministry departmental discussion (Immigration, Tourism, Commerce, BoT, BOI, etc).

22 minutes ago, ronnie50 said:

I still prefer to get a stamp to avoid hassles later (not necessarily with Imm). For example, hotels, banks, others, when asking for your passport are often looking for the page with the arrival stamp. But if you arrive through one of the gates, there won't be a stamp. Whomever is looking for that, will only see the departure stamp. Not sure this has been entirely thought through with a multi-Ministry departmental discussion (Immigration, Tourism, Commerce, BoT, BOI, etc).

Yes.....I think you're right........the absence of a physical stamp in your passport (as a visa holder) could cause havoc......

Edited yesterday at 07:55 AM1 day by MIke B Bad

8 minutes ago, MIke B Bad said:

Yes.....I think you're right........the absence of a physical stamp in your passport (as a visa holder) could cause havoc......

It wouldn't of course cause a problem with Immigration as they have a record in their system. But it's the other day to day things like checking in to a hotel, etc. Sure they can see the visa, but they're looking for the entry stamp.

2 hours ago, SamSpade said:

I would imagine they have a record of your Visa status tied to your passport number so would be able to check If you have a valid Visa (& re-entry permit if applicable).

If you don't then you get a Visa Exempt entry or if for some reason they don't want to give you a VE (e.g. view you as spending too much time in Thailand without a Visa) the gates reject you & you need to go to the Immigration desk.

Given the limited (In scope not amount) of data required to make this work it should be simple enough to implement.

Trouble with that is your phrase "I would imagine"!

Not a pop at you, but there are questions to be answered , IMO.

EG...they COULD use the data you supply on your TDAC...but we don't know.

And...if you have a visa, you would hitherto have presented that to the IO on arrival to prove it - how will that work - we don't know?

The other thing that concerns me is, whether you arrive for a VE entry or have a visa, you will have no "Admitted Until" date stamped in your passport.

Yes, I know it's something of which you should be aware but it makes an issue before which there was none.

47 minutes ago, VBF said:

The other thing that concerns me is, whether you arrive for a VE entry or have a visa, you will have no "Admitted Until" date stamped in your passport.

It could also be an issue if for some (dreaded) reason you need to deal with the local police precinct. I realize the IO and regular police are all 'police' - but it wouldn't surprise me at all if the local cops detain you while they try to find out if you are in the country legally, as they don't see an entry stamp in your PP. Should all police have access to that Imm database? Probably yes. Do we know they have access to it? No we don't really.

1 hour ago, ronnie50 said:

It could also be an issue if for some (dreaded) reason you need to deal with the local police precinct. I realize the IO and regular police are all 'police' - but it wouldn't surprise me at all if the local cops detain you while they try to find out if you are in the country legally, as they don't see an entry stamp in your PP. Should all police have access to that Imm database? Probably yes. Do we know they have access to it? No we don't really.

THAT was what occurred to me about the lack of a stamp.

3 hours ago, ronnie50 said:

Whomever is looking for that, will only see the departure stamp.

They wouldn't even see this if you use the Auto Departure gates (I did this last time I left BKK).

2 minutes ago, SamSpade said:

They wouldn't even see this if you use the Auto Departure gates (I did this last time I left BKK).

Fair point. So a cop would only see the last entry stamp. Problem with that though, is what if it is way past the allowable stay? They'd detain you on overstay instead!