I went to my local Immigration Office in Fang North of Chiang Mai earlier this week to carry out the 90 day reporting, I have a retirement extension and multiple re entry permit.

The officer advised that as I went to Burma for the day with some overseas visitors late last year a new notification of my address should have been lodged on my return

My wife and I have lived here for over five years and I have my own house book ( not blue).

They are very helpful and friendly at this office they completed the form which my wife signed and stapled the notification in my passport

They advised that this procedure is necessary each time you leave the country as the departure card has a bar code and serial number.

The procedure is not particularly onerous but I am curious as to whether this is a National requirement or only applies here

Some offices do some don't.

Some require it only for change of address some every time you leave Thailand and come back.

Rayong is only for change of address, at the moment.

TM30 requirement (reporting where a foreigner is staying) has been on the books since the 1970's but they're only now enforcing it. 

32 minutes ago, lordblackader said:

TM30 requirement (reporting where a foreigner is staying) has been on the books since the 1970's but they're only now enforcing it. 

true but different areas have different rules on when. Some if you change address only some for every time you leave Thailand and return.

People need to ask at their local Imm' office.

55 minutes ago, lordblackader said:

TM30 requirement (reporting where a foreigner is staying) has been on the books since the 1970's but they're only now enforcing it. 

 

The OP did not mention which form his wife was made to sign, but the TM.30 is the obvious guess.

 

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They advised that this procedure is necessary each time you leave the country as the departure card has a bar code and serial number.

 

First time I hear about this link between the arrival card and the TM.30 notification, the latter requiring the indication of the arrival card number among other details. Perhaps this explains why the more knowledgeable immigration offices ask for the TM.30 only after a new arrival from abroad, whereas some others want it every time a foreigner has been away from his residence for more than 24 hours even only within Thailand, and to top it all some offices want it every time a foreigner visits the office for an extension of stay or a notification of staying in Thailand longer than 90 days even when the foreigner has never left his place of residence since his previous visit to the office.

1 hour ago, Maestro said:

 

The OP did not mention which form his wife was made to sign, but the TM.30 is the obvious guess.

 

 

First time I hear about this link between the arrival card and the TM.30 notification, the latter requiring the indication of the arrival card number among other details. Perhaps this explains why the more knowledgeable immigration offices ask for the TM.30 only after a new arrival from abroad, whereas some others want it every time a foreigner has been away from his residence for more than 24 hours even only within Thailand, and to top it all some offices want it every time a foreigner visits the office for an extension of stay or a notification of staying in Thailand longer than 90 days even when the foreigner has never left his place of residence since his previous visit to the office.

Thanks for your comments guys its not particularly onerous and the people at the local office which is in the centre of the town  are very friendly and helpful

I still have trouble getting my head around the fact that different offices and departments can apply their own rules not something I am used to in Australia