proof of residence for retirement extension?

[thaibeachlovers]

Is the residence certificate obtained from C M immigration sufficient, or do I need more?

PS. I live in a family home, but the owners ( wife's in laws ) are far away.

Thanks.

Edited April 12, 2016 by thaibeachlovers

[pgrahmm]

I use the house lease...

I used the house lease to get the Residency Cert....Not sure how you get one without a lease....

Technically I think your inlaws have to file paperwork whenever you occupy the house as well as absences & returns...I'm not sure if this works for verification....

I believe you can go to the Consolate & make a notarized affidavit to the effect of your residence and that would suffice.....

Edited April 12, 2016 by pgrahmm

[NancyL]

You don't need a residency certificate for your retirement extension. The owner of your residence should file a TM30 for you each time you re-enter the country after having been out. In my case, the office staff at my condo does this for us, having gotten themselves set up to use the same on-line filing system that hotels use to report foreign guests. The condo staff gives us a print-out of the screen that show they filed the TM30 and I keep it in my passport.

There have been several threads about this:

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/905361-what-is-my-responsibility-in-change-of-address-reporting/?p=10564765&hl=tm30

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/895167-tm30-experience/?hl=tm30

If the owner of your residence hasn't done this for you, you there may be questions and when you go for your retirement extension. Having a residency certificate from the consulate isn't going to help.

[thaibeachlovers]

You don't need a residency certificate for your retirement extension. The owner of your residence should file a TM30 for you each time you re-enter the country after having been out. In my case, the office staff at my condo does this for us, having gotten themselves set up to use the same on-line filing system that hotels use to report foreign guests. The condo staff gives us a print-out of the screen that show they filed the TM30 and I keep it in my passport.

There have been several threads about this:

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/905361-what-is-my-responsibility-in-change-of-address-reporting/?p=10564765&hl=tm30

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/895167-tm30-experience/?hl=tm30

If the owner of your residence hasn't done this for you, you there may be questions and when you go for your retirement extension. Having a residency certificate from the consulate isn't going to help.

When we went to the police station to report my presence ( I don't live near an immigration office ) they didn't know about TM 30 and wrote it in their big book. I doubt that would suffice for immigration.

BTW, what SHOULD suffice is irrelevant at the C M office as they make it up on the day, and I speak from experience.

[NancyL]

You don't need a residency certificate for your retirement extension. The owner of your residence should file a TM30 for you each time you re-enter the country after having been out. In my case, the office staff at my condo does this for us, having gotten themselves set up to use the same on-line filing system that hotels use to report foreign guests. The condo staff gives us a print-out of the screen that show they filed the TM30 and I keep it in my passport.

There have been several threads about this:

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/905361-what-is-my-responsibility-in-change-of-address-reporting/?p=10564765&hl=tm30

http://www.thaivisa.com/forum/topic/895167-tm30-experience/?hl=tm30

If the owner of your residence hasn't done this for you, you there may be questions and when you go for your retirement extension. Having a residency certificate from the consulate isn't going to help.

When we went to the police station to report my presence ( I don't live near an immigration office ) they didn't know about TM 30 and wrote it in their big book. I doubt that would suffice for immigration.

BTW, what SHOULD suffice is irrelevant at the C M office as they make it up on the day, and I speak from experience.

Read thru the threads, but the "gold standard" is when the Immigration officers can look in their database when you show up to do your retirement extension and see that there is a TM30 on file for you with an departure card number that matches the departure card in your passport. Anything less than that could result in a fine. And if you read thru the threads, you'll see that some people have been fined, especially if they live in homes owned by their wives and they didn't file the last time they entered the country.

Not everyone is tripped up on this -- you take your chances.

[mr chow]

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