Did 90 Days Rules Change?

[borowolf]

I entered the country on Dec 3, 2011.

In my calculations this means that I have to report for 90 days on March 2, 2012 or 7 days earlier.

So I went in on Feb 27.

The Immigration officer looked at my papers and then said "You have to report on March 15" and he wrote explicitly on my paper "Dec 3 => Mar 15".

Now, what is this? Am I no longer able to calculate 90 days, is the immigration officer wrong (they generally look at a table for this) or did the rules change?

Anyone else experience with this?

And what to do next? I intend to return on March 2 to try again unless the rules changed. Afraid that if I do not go back they will let me pay the overstay fine at March 15, which is considerable with 13 days of overstay.

[moe666]

If he wrote down mar.15 go on the 15th. But no it is still 90 days.

[wayned]

Rules have not changed, it's still every 90 days. I count the same as you and March 2 is the date. I'd go back i otherwise they might get you for reporting late, 2000 baht, not 500 baht a day overstay.

[beechguy]

If it's address report you won't be on overstay.

[Mario2008]

Around March 3 would be the correct date, seems a mistake by the immigration officer, or did you come in on a visa and recently applied for an extension of stay? In that case the 90 days start from the date you apply for your FIRST extension of stay.

[lopburi3]

The window is 15 days before until 7 days after for 90 day address reporting - but you would not be doing this with a normal visa entry so you are on an extension of stay? And your last entry into Thailand was December 3rd?

[borowolf]

Thank you all.

So it seems the immigration officer was wrong. I will go back to them this week and will not take the risk for an overstay.

Yes, I am on a retirement O visa here. I stay here permanently but was out of the country at the end of November last year. I returned on December 3. So that is the day to count from.

Mario, be carefull. A Visa extension does NOT count as a 90 day report. I made that mistake once and had a lot of trouble avoiding the overstay fine.

[Mario2008]

Thank you all.

So it seems the immigration officer was wrong. I will go back to them this week and will not take the risk for an overstay.

Yes, I am on a retirement O visa here. I stay here permanently but was out of the country at the end of November last year. I returned on December 3. So that is the day to count from.

Mario, be carefull. A Visa extension does NOT count as a 90 day report. I made that mistake once and had a lot of trouble avoiding the overstay fine.

As I believe I said, only your first extension of stay counts as a 90 day report.

[Lite Beer]

Being late with a 90 day report is not over stay. The fine is 2,000 Baht for being late.

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[Jayman]

Not sure where the best place for this is so mods feel free to move it as you see fit.

Here is the 90-day report tm47 that I turned into a fillable form. Makes it easy for me to fill and print for my 90-day reporting.

tm47 fillable.pdf