I have a one year O-visa mutiple entry. Use to stay in Thailand for about 6 months a year.

When I bought a house in 2010 I got something called a "Yellow book". Now I have sold this house and bought a new one. I ask the following questions;

1/ Do I have to get a new "Yellow book" or can I change address in my recent YB? If so, where can I do that?

2/ My former address is printed in my 5 years Thai drivers license, do I need to correct that?

3/ I have a Bleu Book for my car. Do I have to change anything in this book?

4/ I understand that I have to register my new address at the Immigration Office. But what other activities do I have to think of in connection to my change of address?

Thanks in advance for your answer.

You need to go to the amphur office that issued you your original yb and present some documentation of the sell of house and your new residency. They in return will issue you a letter that gives you 14 days to report to your new amphur where you surrender your old yb and a new yb is issued. The old or original yb is then returned by you to the old house address.

I believe the yellow book is not tied to ownership of a place of residence and you can keep the same yellow book when you move to a new address. Just have the district (amphoe) office record the new address in your yellow book.

You need to go to the amphur office that issued you your original yb and present some documentation of the sell of house and your new residency. They in return will issue you a letter that gives you 14 days to report to your new amphur where you surrender your old yb and a new yb is issued. The old or original yb is then returned by you to the old house address.

I'm married and the house is in the wifes name. The above are the basic that were taken by me for moving and a new yb was issued. In my new yb is the old address and the new address. The old yb was returned to the original address to new home owners husband (foreigner) as the book was tied to the original address.

The book is tied to the address and lists the people living there. It is not tied to the person, so when you change address you will be singed out of the yellwo book and added to the yellow book for the place you will be living.

The book is tied to the address and lists the people living there. It is not tied to the person, so when you change address you will be singed out of the yellwo book and added to the yellow book for the place you will be living.

I heartily disagree. I have a yellow book, from my residence in Nong Khai. When I moved back to Bangkok, they asked my new address, and entered it in the yellow book, and handed it back to me. The YELLOW book stays with the person.

That would be different from a blue book then, besides the colour.

One thing I do know is yes you are supposed to change the address on your drivers license for sure. Not that it actually matters much unless you get caught some how (which is highly unlikely) however legality wise you are supposed to.

One thing I do know is yes you are supposed to change the address on your drivers license for sure. Not that it actually matters much unless you get caught some how (which is highly unlikely) however legality wise you are supposed to.

I assume that in order to get the address changed on the driver's licence, one first needs to get the address changed in the WP or yellow book.

The book is tied to the address and lists the people living there. It is not tied to the person, so when you change address you will be singed out of the yellwo book and added to the yellow book for the place you will be living.

I heartily disagree. I have a yellow book, from my residence in Nong Khai. When I moved back to Bangkok, they asked my new address, and entered it in the yellow book, and handed it back to me. The YELLOW book stays with the person.

I don't see how that can possibly work. The yellow book only have one page for address information, the rest of the pages are for registering people living at the address. There is no place to enter a new address in the book, so where did they put the details of your new Bangkok address in your yellow book?

Sophon

It appears that the page you refer to is the page containing the address of the house where the yellow tabien ban was issued. The subsequent two pages show my name and my wife's name, along with our corresponding registration numbers. At the bottom of those pages, there is a dotted line, and below that line it shows our NEW address (ไปที่). The sections above the dotted lines are stamped 'ย้าย' - 'moved'. Subsequent pages do, however, appear to be for the names of residents, and are identical to the ones which show our names, although not yet filled in.

From this inspection, I think it's possible that I may be mistaken, and we should get a new yellow book at our new address. If that's the case, presumably, our registration numbers will remain the same, and all the hoops we jumped through to get the book will be grandfathered.

Maybe someone with more definitive knowledge can weigh in here.

The book is tied to the address and lists the people living there. It is not tied to the person, so when you change address you will be singed out of the yellwo book and added to the yellow book for the place you will be living.

I heartily disagree. I have a yellow book, from my residence in Nong Khai. When I moved back to Bangkok, they asked my new address, and entered it in the yellow book, and handed it back to me. The YELLOW book stays with the person.

I don't see how that can possibly work. The yellow book only have one page for address information, the rest of the pages are for registering people living at the address. There is no place to enter a new address in the book, so where did they put the details of your new Bangkok address in your yellow book?

Sophon

I guessed wrong then, in fact have never seen the inside of a yellow book and should better no have commented. If the yellow book for foreigners serves the same function as the blue book for Thais, what Mario and Sophon said makes sense: the first person entered is the head of the household, all additional entries are additional persons living in the same household. For the OP, this means trading the old yellow book in for a new one at the new address.

So what about question #2 and #3 from op?

Anyone?