new rule ?

[freedomnow]

In Chaing Mai -TM30 by owner for touristas..sure.

Now also need TM28 tear-off form signed with 48 hours but some flexibility up to a week I gather for tourist visa extension.

 

Just another way to trip us up and tip us upside down.

 

Friend said BKK did not require it for his retiree 90-day report...so as usual, nothing uniformly applied across the country.

90-day report in Chiang Mai...not sure.

[poohy]

Reading this i have a feeling I have never changed my address from 2 rental houses prior to moving into our new house( in wifeys name, she sure as hell has not been near immigration)

Nothing being flagged up on 90 day reports or 2 retirement extensions, plus I travel in and of country regularly without any notification to anyone (this i the first time i've heard about it)

Guess i might have to buy the boss of immigration a friend of friend  a bottle on whisky to clarify and amend

 

or carry on ignoring it!

[Koratdave]

5 hours ago, steve187 said:

what form did you use to comply

TM28.

And was told every time i leave Thailand and return. I need to submit this form

[tutsiwarrior]

On 11/5/2016 at 8:28 AM, ubonjoe said:

Unless he needed to do something at immigration there would be no need for the TM30 form.

Immigration does not check homes to see if they have guests.

 

but...the big question....

 

what if someone was to go to immigration to renew a non - O yearly retirement or marriage extension...routine, never any problem...should we now expect our kindly IO to transform into a fascist dictatorial lunatic and demand the TM30 and if not submitted within 24hrs to expect a fine???

 

it's not clear what the circumstances are of the people who recently encountered this demand and reported on this thread...why did they go down to their immigration office in the first place? tourist visa extension? what?

 

folks that live hours from their local immigration office and havta travel frequently for work??? gimme a break...

 

 

[Koratdave]

1 hour ago, tutsiwarrior said:

 

but...the big question....

 

what if someone was to go to immigration to renew a non - O yearly retirement or marriage extension...routine, never any problem...should we now expect our kindly IO to transform into a fascist dictatorial lunatic and demand the TM30 and if not submitted within 24hrs to expect a fine???

 

it's not clear what the circumstances are of the people who recently encountered this demand and reported on this thread...why did they go down to their immigration office in the first place? tourist visa extension? what?

 

folks that live hours from their local immigration office and havta travel frequently for work??? gimme a break...

 

 

I had to visit immigration to renew my ( retirement. Wait for the comments) . Whilst there i also did my 90 day report. 

I have never had the problem before.

[Maestro]

TM28.

And was told every time i leave Thailand and return. I need to submit this form

Thank you.

I remember another immigration office (Hua Hin?) suddenly enforcing the TM.28 strictly like that a couple of years ago but dropping it again after a few months.

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[BritTim]

3 hours ago, Koratdave said:

TM28.

And was told every time i leave Thailand and return. I need to submit this form

 

I really am praying that this is an aberration. If some mentally retarded senior general has decided everyone should start enforcing TM-28 submission according to the letter of the immigration law, there is going to be absolute chaos.

[tutsiwarrior]

21 minutes ago, Koratdave said:

I had to visit immigration to renew my ( retirement. Wait for the comments) . Whilst there i also did my 90 day report. 

I have never had the problem before.

 

so, what are you saying?...a problem now but not before?...if now, did the issue arise when you did the 90 day report?

 

I always thought that when you renewed an extension that the renewal counted for a 90 day report and that the new 90 day period started from the date of yer new extension...this year my extension date and 90 day report fall roughly on the same date...

 

and we got a new immigration office in Suphanburi and I don't know what to expect...life is complicated...

 

[Maestro]

Regarding the TM.28 requirement for a foreigner following his arrival from abroad I believe section 37(2) of the Immigration Act applies:

 

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Section 37 : An alien having received a temporary entry permit into the Kingdom must comply with the
following :
...
2. Shall stay at the place as indicated to the competent official. Where there is proper reason that he cannot stay at the place as indicated to the competent official, he shall notify the competent official of the change in residence , within 24 hours from the time of removing to said place.

 

My reading of this clause is that when the foreigner, following his arrival, does not go to stay at the address given on the arrival card or, after having gone to stay there, later moves to another address, he must notify the "competent official" within 24 hours.

 

The problem is that we do not have the currently valid "regulations prescribed by the Director General" of the Police Department, and I wonder if an immigration officer fining a foreigner for his failure to submit the TM.28 after his arrival from abroad would be able to produce a copy of these regulations.

 

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Section 37

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In making notification under this Section , the alien may make notification in person or send a letter of notification to the competent official , in accordance with the regulations prescribed by the Director General .