Can a foreigner hold two TM 30 registrations from different locations in Thailand?

Mar 30, 2018
7 years ago
Anna **********
ORIGINAL POSTER
*TM 30 question*

Can a foreigner hold two registrations simultaneously from two different locations (one - North, one - South), i.e. holding two TM 30 certificates?

Thank you!
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TLDR : Answer Summary
The consensus from the community is that a foreigner cannot hold two TM 30 registrations simultaneously from different locations in Thailand. The TM30 registration is tied to a specific residential address, and while one can register at a hotel during a temporary stay, that does not equate to having two valid TM30 certificates at once. If a foreigner stays at a different location temporarily, that accommodation's management should file the TM30 on behalf of the guest, but it does not create a concurrent registration.
David ************
I tried once last year having a home in Chumphon and a condo in bkk. I could only claim one.
Andy ********
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Tod *********
That is just plain nonsense. :/ If you're staying there one night, I'd say don't even waste the time filing a TM.30.

Also IF you never have a cause to to go to the immigration office for anything (an extension, a 90 day report, a residence certificate) there's no need for you to do one either, and they won't even know about it.
Andy ********
The TM30 card is your registered accommodation either through a home address or a hotel / resort / hostel .

Away from a residential address it is updated by the accommodation where you are staying .

All the TM30 card registration achieves is to complete the circle and allow the authorities to track your location .

So you’ll never hold two cards at the same time and as soon as you theoretically overnight stay away from the TM30 registered location you need to re register when you return .

So if you have a residence in two locations then you would need to be registered at one whenever staying there

Is it important to remain current with the TM30 . Well there was a line in the interview with the Phuket head of immigration that I’ll try and locate but it did sum it up pretty well , even though the office is now backtracking on some of the overnight away requirements.

Of note is that the TM30 card is dated with the date you registered
Tod *********
That guy who runs Division 6 down there always spouts off nonsense that later gets retracted ..
David *******
@Anna *********
it will be in the systme that your in phuket, then when you return you need to re register in CM within 24 hrs. As Andy said, be careful as it records the date you registered. Probably just as much to do with income generation in ines as much as whereabouts as I am sure 95% of tourists will not know anything about a bloody tm30 lol Many usw airbnb and two guys I spoke to who let put condo had no idea what it was when I asked if they will be registerring me during my stay in CM.
Anna **********
ORIGINAL POSTER
I still don’t get one thing. If I reside in Chiang Mai and live here, registered and hold TM 30, then go for a week to Phuket for example, there a hotel will register me too through their online system with local immigration. How does the immigration in Chiang Mai know that I’m not there? My landlord will not notify as I’m keeping my house here. Does it mean that upon my return I’ll have to come to immigration and tell them that I was away for a week somewhere else and now need a new TM30?
David *******
you can't be in two places at once :-)
David *******
Anna Nazarova yes but you can only be in one place at a time so when you do the tm6 in one place you will be on systems as being there then if you fill another in CM then that one will show where you are at that time and the other one no longer valid. The TM30 is supposed to have the realtime whereabouts of non thais. Sounds good in theory but unworkable in practice as hard as they try.
Anna **********
ORIGINAL POSTER
I know 🙂 but I can live in one place and go for long vacation in another.
Tod *********
Yeah, I'm weighing in as NO as well.

I'd say keep the TM.30 at the residence where you do your extensions and 90 day reporting but don't even bother with it at the other residence.

I mean if you never need to go to the immigration office at that location, they don't know you're there.
Tod *********
@An**
, whether you ever filed a TM.30 or not you will never get a problem stamping in and out of the country.

It comes down to if your immigration office is hard core about the form or not.
Anna **********
ORIGINAL POSTER
@Tod ********
so you think immigrations don’t have one online system where they monitor how long a foreigner can have two registrations and if it happens for too long he/she will get problems at the custom later? 🙂
Tod *********
@An**
, possibly, but I wouldn't worry about that either. IF your immigration office is hard core about the TM.30, just keep that receipt in your passport.
Anna **********
ORIGINAL POSTER
@Tod ********
yeah that’s my question, so at that moment simultaneously I’m having two tm30s?
Tod *********
Anna Nazarova if you stay at a hotel they file a TM.30 online so you don't have to worry about it. And they don't have a receipt that it was filed to give you.
Anna **********
ORIGINAL POSTER
But if I live in one place and have Tm 30 from there and go for a few weeks of vacation to another place, doesn’t the hotel have to register me there anyway? I just won’t be asking for this Tm 30 form, right?
Jeremy ********
I'm going to go with NO on this...because people that have gone on a short minincation to Koh Chang from Pattaya have had to report back to Immigration to update the TM30 card....I think the official verdict is that the TM30 is only valid where you were overnight
David ************
Never knew that slang
Jeremy ********
@Steve ******
a 2-3 day vacation...is called in USA slang a minication
Steve *******
I'll go with "no" too, although I'm not sure what a "minincation" is!
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