Can I skip the 90-day reporting for my DTV visa and just pay the fine?

The officers at the border only care If you've overstayed or have any outstanding arrest warrants.

90 days or tm30 is only for immigration offices within the country

Fran Matos . . just a short notice: on a DTV, nobody at the exit counters will bother you about any missing 90-days report when you exit Thailand. And nobody when you re-enter Thailand will bother you about any forgotten 90-days report. You will get stamped out without having to pay any fine, and you will again get stamped in for a new 180 days admitted stay and nobody at the Immigration booth will bother you with any request for a 2000 Baht fine. Ignore (!) the scaremongers

Chiang Mai has a drive-through for that 😅 I have blank TM47s at home and pass immigration quite frequently. And as you can do 90 day reporting a couple of days earlier or later, I just drive through when I‘m in that area. Did it 2 times and has never been more than 5 minutes so far.

Seriously does nobody know you can just do it online? You’ve been able to since before the DTV existed, it even saves your info so it takes literally less than 20 seconds.

You can do it online now, it takes 5min

You Can do it online easy

No

There is no 2k baht fine on flight day.

You will not get fined when you fly out. The problem could come the next time you need Immigration services, and they spot that you didn’t comply with the rules on filing your 90 report.

It’s not much trouble to do the 90 day report. I did it at Chonburi immigration a couple of weeks ago. All done and dusted in 50 mins.

It is a legal requirement for foreigners who are staying in the kingdom of Thailand longer than 90 days. Thai rules, so why should we think about ways around Thai immigration rules for foreigners? Immigration are getting stricter in most aspects of foreigners abiding by Thai rules, so I suggest just fall in line, stay legal, stay out of trouble. Small price to pay for getting to live in such a great country

Guys just do the fuggin 90 report. It's not that hard.

You can get the form online and print the paperwork you need.

I get all the paperwork I need on my computer and merge into one pdf to print at a photocopy place.

You can mail it in if you can't do it online.

Yeah I’ve spoken to several people who don’t fill it out. The only time I hear of it being a problem is the people who skip it but go to immigration eventually instead of leaving the country for a reset.

Did it today in udon thani. Free and took 15 minutes

Thai Visa Centre are most responsive.

It’s all ok until it’s not… If you don’t do it in time you may have problems getting cerficate of residence if you need it for some reason( it’s required for almost all purposes) not mentioning getting caught by the police. Plus the western attitude: I have money I can skip whatever is inconvenient for me…

Useless rule just to give tough time and make money.

My agent does it for 500. Simple 2 min click on my phone.

Definitely don’t skip 90 day report lol

This is a stupid post, just do what you agreed when you applied for the DTV or go away

Please note people I am NOT advocating that you DTV holders don't file 90 day reports.

Because the rule is if you're on a visa/extension that requires it, and you're in the country 90 continuous days you're obligated to file a report.

All I am saying is if you don't do it NOTHING HAPPENS at passport control when you stamp out of the country at an exit point. Those officers don't care if you ever filed a 90 day report or not AND nothing happens when you stamp back in to the country coming back either.

You are legally obliged to report every time you spend 90 consecutive days inside Thailand. Nothing to do with immigration when leaving, only the immigration offices inside Thailand deal with 90 day reports.

You can do it by post, or pay an agent, shouldn't be more than 500B for an agent to do it. It really isn't a big deal if you miss it, if you don't need anything from immigration you'll probably never even have to pay the fine as they don't check it at the airport.

I do it personally, because it's the law, and while it is NBD right now, things like this can change and make a problem in the future. May never happen. But I do it just in case.

In Chiang Mai, it's a few minutes at immigration, it doesn't take long at all. Just the form and the passport through the drive-through window, so it's however many other people are there. I've never taken over 10 minutes, and that's waiting in the queue, the actual form gets processed in ~60 seconds and handed back to you.

It takes 10 min at the immigration office to make your report even if you miss your date

You have a 7 day window to report or leave

Never done it and never will

Never report, never been asked to pay.

I haven’t done any 90 day report while on DTV. There is no fine when you leave the country.

Use an agent 500Baht

It takes a few minutes at immi.

There is no fine when you leave.

They won't even ask you anything before flying, so no you don't need need to do anything for the whole year, the problem is only if you are controlled randomly and they catch you and see that you didn't do it. Otherwise all fine, don't do anything for the whole year, fly out and fly back in and it's reset

Agree, why bother to apply for a passport, apply for a visa, buy tickets and travel to Thailand.

You can work from your moms basement.

Just follow the law and do your report!!!

do you really think it is a good idea to ignore the rules in the place that you live? At some point it is not beyond the realm of possiblity to expect at least at the 5 year renewal point a review of someones activities while here? It seems to me you should consider either doing the filing yourself or perhaps engaging an agent to do it on your behalf.

It takes 2min preparation at home and 90 seconds dealing with drive through service at immigration office 🤷‍♂️

What is this 2k on flight day you speak of?

It takes about 90 seconds to do it online and it appears to be an automated process.

You must be making 100s of dollars and hour for it to be worth the hassle skipping it.

I get an agent to do it for me for 600thb

Yeah I’ve always just paid an agent, works out less than the taxi fare usually let alone what I lose missing work

Skip it if your time and income is worth more a lot more than the 2K. But don't skip it repeatedly, as this could cause headaches in the future.