Do I need to file a TM 30

[longball53098]

Ok my turn to ask a question about the need to file a TM 30.

 

A little history first. I am on a retirement extension 1 year and this is my 10th one. I live in Rayong province and have been making my 90 day reports as required for the entire 10 years. No problems. I have not left the country for the entire period.

 

So here comes the question. I need to rent a place in BKK for a month or two due to some medical needs and I cannot travel back and forth to Rayong as I need to be in a treatment center daily for the entire 6 or 8 week time. 

 

Do I need to file a TM 30 at BKK Immigration? Then when I return to home in Rayong file again in Rayong?

 

My current 90 day report will be due on 5 Feb 17.

 

 

[ubonjoe]

Unless you will need to do something at immigration in Bangkok you will not need to do a TM30 there and even if you did they likely would not ask for one.

Same for Rayong immigration since they will not know about your stay in Bangkok.

You will need to do your 90 day report To Rayong.

[steve187]

if i was you i would do a 90 day report before you go, even if it has to be a bit early, and then don't tell anyone your in Bangkok.

[longball53098]

Thanks Joe and Steve.

 

The earliest I can do the 90 day is 7 days before? Correct?  I must be in place in BKK on the 30th of Jan. Also I cannot make an online report as I fall in the group that has not been out/in the country for many years hence I am in the old database.

 

Joe, Is it the apartment owners responsibility to report a foreigner staying at his place? That puts me in BKK at that point. Mostly will be a long stay hotel of sorts in SIlom area

[ubonjoe]

You are allowed to do your 90 day report up to 15 days early or 7 days after the report date. They changed it to 15 days before several years ago.

If the hotel does a a report it will not change your permanent address. Rayong immigration would not know about the report unless they sesearched the database where they are stored.

[longball53098]

Joe, As always many thanks. I forgot the 15 day early part. My 90 day due date is 6 Feb so I can easily make the 90 day 15 days early before the trek to BKK and that should do the trick. 

 

Thanks again.

[OJAS]

4 hours ago, longball53098 said:

Joe, As always many thanks. I forgot the 15 day early part. My 90 day due date is 6 Feb so I can easily make the 90 day 15 days early before the trek to BKK and that should do the trick. 

 

Thanks again.

 

You can, of course, mail in your 90-day report as an alternative to going there in person - and I can confirm that Rayong is an office which definitely does accept mailed-in reports, based on personal experience. You will need to submit by EMS a completed TM47 plus passport/TM6 copies and the original of your previous notification. 

 

The important thing to note is that your mailed-in report should arrive at the immigration office by no later than 7 days before the due date - which by my reckoning is Monday 30th January in your case. However, I would strongly advise you to aim for delivery by Friday 27th January at the latest because on the last 2 occasions the Maptaput delivery postman chose to leave my report until the end of his round, meaning that the office had closed for the day by the time he finally got there and re-delivery having to take place the following day (which, fortunately, was still within the 7-day limit in both cases).

 

And, by way of a heads-up for your next retirement extension at Rayong, your housemaster will definitely need to provide a completed TM30 for you based on my experience for my latest retirement extension 6 months ago. However, they shouldn't insist on it being provided there and then: they informed my wife (who is my housemaster) that she could drop it in when she was next in the neighbourhood, and, seeing as this wouldn't be for another 12 months, we mailed in the completed TM30 together with my next 90-day report a few weeks later, and back came the notification slip together with that for my 90-day report in the post a week later without any ado. Furthermore, my wife was not threatened with any fine for the 8-year delay on her part in complying with the TM30 requirement!

[elviajero]

7 hours ago, longball53098 said:

Joe, Is it the apartment owners responsibility to report a foreigner staying at his place? That puts me in BKK at that point. Mostly will be a long stay hotel of sorts in SIlom area

Yes reporting is generally the responsibility of apartment owners, and is always the responsibility of a hotel (manager).