Can you extend a visa in Thailand without a TM30?

Simple solution mentioned many times here already.. but I'd check in to a hotel for 2 nights just before you intend to apply for your extension.. they will file a TM30 for you and usually do so on the day you check in.. ask them for a printed copy of the TM30 registration they do online.. then go to immigration the next day with it and apply for the extension.. then move to accommodation of choice for the rest of your stay.. provided you leave the country without any further interactions with immigration.. then a subsequent failure to do a TM30, (ie. by your next landlord) won't matter at all!

The Chonburi immigration office in Pattaya has also cracked down on this. They were going to fine my gf something like 2500 baht for not having a current TM.30 when she went in to do her 30 day extension recently. She elected to do a border run instead to restart her clock.

Just check in to a cheap hotel for a couple of nights off your Landlord is messing about!

we're going around in circles with this. 🙁 Doesn't matter whose responsibility it is, the person who doesn't have the TM30 is the one that suffers (and usually gets fined when it's not filed on time)

All you can do is go try for the extension using the address where you stay and see what they say at IT Square.

IF you don't have a crazy entry/stay history (as in you have been living here on free entry stamps) they MIGHT not ask for the TM30

Otherwise you're going to have to get one filed at the address where you live

OR

do as some people have had to do, check into a hotel for one day to get the TM30 and use that address when you apply for the extension

To clarify, what is the time frame the landlord has to file the TM30 within? I have read within 24 hours after arrival, but my real estate agent who handles it for my foreign landlord is telling me 7 days…

I Always do the TM 30 myself (Copy of Landlord Passport and Rental contract) - so im sure i have it .

you heard correctly, they got really hard on people at IT Square for 30 day extensions and ask almost everyone for their copy of the TM30 receipt

Have him make an online profile, add the address where you stay, and file a TM30 on you with the online TM30 program then export/print the receipt

He's gonna be doing nothing in person until the 2nd of Jan when the offices all open back up 🙂

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