90 Ed Visa Extension And 90 Day Reporting, Do Both?

[Greeen]

hi

In another post I read that when you do a 90 day ED extension you also have to do a 90 day report as well, but this is done separately

is this correct?

[lopburi3]

Yes for all but the first time it will be separate forms - a TM.7 for the extension of stay and a TM.47 for reporting address. But remember the address report is only due after a stay of 90 days so if you do any travel outside Thailand it will not be due until 90 days after your return (return day one of new count).

[Greeen]

thanks!

It will be my first ED extension, so if I understand you correctly, the reporting of address is due 90 days after my first ED extension

[DowntownAl]

On my first ED extension at Chiang Mai immigration (last October), I did not do a separate 90 day report but, when I returned to my school the next day the office staff went into a near panic. They checked all their students who had just completed their first extensions (four of us on the same week) and found two had 90 reports filed with receipts in their passports, mine and another student did not have a receipt, we also dealt with different officers at immigration. A school staff member took our passports and made a quick run to immigration and got our 90 reports taken care of and receipts stapled in our passports. Maybe just a procedural thing for my school here (Pro Language) but, they were quite certain, based on their experience here, that it had to be done or we would have been fined. The best we could figure was that one immigration officer wanted a 90 report and the other one did not - local rules? Just saying, and it can't hurt.

Edited June 9, 2013 by DowntownAl

[MJCM]

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The best we could figure was that one immigration officer wanted a 90 report and the other one did not - local rules? Just saying, and it can't hurt.

My guess is that one Immigration Officer just thought "it's up to them to know when to do their 90 Day reports or not"

[lopburi3]

The first application for extension of stay counts as an address report.

The first application for extension of stay by the foreigner is equivalent to the notification of staying in the Kingdom over 90 days.

http://www.immigration.go.th/

http://chiangmaiimm.com/en/notification-of-staying-in-the-kingdom-over-90-days.html

[Greeen]

The first application for extension of stay counts as an address report.

The first application for extension of stay by the foreigner is equivalent to the notification of staying in the Kingdom over 90 days.

http://www.immigration.go.th/

http://chiangmaiimm.com/en/notification-of-staying-in-the-kingdom-over-90-days.html

Thanks again Lopburi3!

[TerraplaneGuy]

The first application for extension of stay counts as an address report.

The first application for extension of stay by the foreigner is equivalent to the notification of staying in the Kingdom over 90 days.

http://www.immigration.go.th/

http://chiangmaiimm.com/en/notification-of-staying-in-the-kingdom-over-90-days.html

Hey Lopburi3, this string started re poster's 90 day visa. But I have a similar question about a retirement extension. I arrived on a one-year non-Immigrant OA back in 2011 and am now on a one year retirement extension of stay, coming up to my second extension in February. But I have to make a 90 day report before my upcoming extension.

Question: Say I make my 90 day report on January 12 and then get my one year extension of stay on February 12. Will my next 90 day report be 90 days from Jan. 12 or will the visa extension start the clock again so that my next 90 day report will be due 90 days from February 12?

I see where it says "the first" extension counts as a 90 day report but what about subsequent extensions? Do they affect the ongoing 90-day timetable?

[ubonjoe]

Report will be due 90 days from Jan. 12th. Only the 1st extension resets the clock.

[TerraplaneGuy]

Report will be due 90 days from Jan. 12th. Only the 1st extension resets the clock.

Ubonjoe, thanks. It occurs to me I could do the 90 day in person instead of mail, on the same day I go in for my annual extension My 90 days end on January 21 and my current extension expires February 12. So it seems I could go in around January 15 for both (and get my multiple re-entry permit while I'm at it!). Does it take a long time to do the 90 day in person, and is it a different office and queue from the extension? My extension would be at Bangkok's Chaeng Wattana office. (I've never done a 90-day yet by either method.)

Cheers

TG

[Mario2008]

Same office, different queue.

Should not take too long.

[ubonjoe]

It is two different queue numbers at CW and another one for re-entry permit.

It shouldn't take long to do the report but I don't understand what you mean about never making a report. You should of been making them already.

[TerraplaneGuy]

...I don't understand what you mean about never making a report. You should of been making them already.

Good point ... but the reason is I've been travelling outside LOS so much that I've always been able to re-set the clock on re-entry. So I'm a newbie to the 90-day reports. Sounds from what you guys are saying that I might as well do it in person at CW rather than mail it, since I have to be up there anyway for the extension of stay and re-entry permit.

[ubonjoe]

Doing the report in person would be the best way.

[TerraplaneGuy]

Doing the report in person would be the best way.

Thanks. Do I have to submit the same 90 day report form, TM.47, at an in-person report as is used for the mail-in? Or do I just show up with my passport & departure card?

[ubonjoe]

You need the TM47.

[TerraplaneGuy]

OK, Thanks!