90 day report question

[Jayman]

I'm looking for a bit of advice here on 90 day reporting. I've been doing my 90 day reports at the Jomtien office for the past several years and I think I understand their policies fairly well. I've never encountered any issues with them there. Recently we made a move up to Sakon Nakhon and today was my first time dealing with their immigration office. I went in to do my 90 day report but was refused. They told me to come back in June. At first I thought he was confused and gave me wrong info. I asked him (in Thai) to explain it to me and I left with a clear understanding of what he believed to be correct. Since I will probably still be in Sakon Nakhon in June (when he told me to return) I am not too worried since he will be the one I come back to see and certainly he shouldn't tell me I'm late to report since he is the one to explain why I don't have to report till June.

Now let me give you some details on my situation. I entered Thailand with a re-entry permit on Jan 11, 2014. My 1 year extension expires on Feb 10, 2014 so that is the exit stamp they gave me. I went into Jomtien immigration prior to the Feb 10 expiration with all my docs for a 1 year extension. They accepted my application and gave me 1 month stamp to return to get my further 11 month stamp after all comes back from Bangkok. Since I wasn't going to be in Pattaya on the day the 1 month stamp was up I asked the supervisor if I could come back a little late and she said that was no problem. Fast forward to March 18 when I turned back up at Jomtien immigration to get my 11 month stamp. All was approved and I was in/out with my new extension stamp good till Feb 10, 2015. Now, in years past, the 90 day report cycle did NOT start on this day but rather started on either the date of my last 90 day report or last entry to the Kingdom whichever was later. It is with this same logic that I went to do my 90 day report today at the Sakon immigration. I entered on Jan 11 and I went to report on March 3 (a week or so early). The immigration officer was convinced that my 90 days doesn't start till March 18 and told me to come back mid June. I'm fairly certain that if I turned up at the Jomtien immigration on June 15 they would make me pay the 2000thb late fine. Since I'm going to try and do the report here in Sakon I don't think it will be an issue since it's a small office and that same officer will probably be the one to handle my report.

Just wondering what some of the other members think of this. Has Jomtien been calculating it wrong all these years or is the Sakon office a bit confused? If the confusion is with the Sakon office what would you recommend I do since they flat out refused to let me turn in my 90 day report form.

[ubonjoe]

I think they are using a different policy and it may apply to all immigration offices in the north east. They are restarting the 90 day reports for extensions based upon marriage to the report back date or the date you get the one year extension stamp.

They did that to me here in Ubon. On my first trip to immigration for my extension I did a 90 day report when I gave them the application for my extension. But due to needing a rental contract for or rental house (2nd home besides are own in the village) I had to go back later. When every thing was finished and they did my the under consideration stamp the officer changed my 90 day report date to the same date as the report back date after 30 days. Then they did a new 90 day report when I went back for the extension stamp,

[MJCM]

^ Wow that's confusing !!

So what is a perfect good 90 day Report date for one immigration office is not good for another.

But hey TiT

Ps: Just don't change back to the Pattaya / Jomtien immigration as you will be (maybe or not) reporting late

[ubonjoe]

It certainly confused me when they changed my 90 day report date that I had only done a week earlier.

I wasn't sure what they had done until I went back for for the one year stamp and they had me sign a 90 day report form they had filled out for me and they put a new receipt in my passport.