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Do I need a new TM30 and rental contract for immigration if I moved within the same apartment?

Dec 26, 2025

a day ago

Hello, everyone! I got a question. I stay in an apartment, have reported to immigration with relavant documents, seasoning my bank deposit. Now, I moved to another room in the same apartment. My question now is: Do I need a new TM 30 and contract when I go immigration to get the one year extention? Many thanks.

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TLDR : Answer Summary

The user inquired about the need for a new TM30 form and rental contract after moving to a different room within the same apartment. Responses indicate that if the actual address has changed, then a new TM30 may be required, despite staying within the same complex. Some opinions suggest that using the existing contract might suffice, as long as it covers the user's stay.

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John **********

Has your actual address changed? I assume it has, so you will need a new TM30

a day ago

Nik ****

ORIGINAL POSTER

@John *********

My sddress remains the same. Same building, different room number.

21 hours ago

Jan ******************

@Nik ***

I also replied that you are probably formally required to update your address when relocating within the same apartment complex, but that I would personally wait and do this at the next application since all the documentation is already in order and, in practice, it is usually more relevant for mail than for immigration. You’ll have to assess that yourself, but I think Nongnuch had by far the most practical approach here.😉

7 hours ago

John **********

@Nik ***

but the room number is important if it forms part of your address

20 hours ago

Jim *******

@John *********

Might be important for those living in the armpits of Thailand, in houses, in the sticks and shitholes where not even Thais would believe anyone would ever live, not even Thais themselves.

John **********

don't be ridiculous

Florenz ********

I do not understand how ridiculous some of the responses are to questions in this thread. Common sense says if you move, you update your address PERIOD..That would be the same as me saying I moved to a different condo in a 46 floor building. It may be the same building but my physical location has changed within that building. Bottom line is use common sense and do the TM-30. Some immigration offices require even when you leave simply for a short week or two from Thailand. When I leave to travel to Vietnam or just to go back to the USA I still do a new TM-30 regardless when I return. It’s not like it is expensive or anything.

8 hours ago

Jim *******

@John *********

Ok, I aplogise to you.

19 hours ago

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Jim *******

@John *********

Change of address, if on marriage based extension, where Immigration might visit your place, would matter even if the condo is different from what the latest TM30 says.

Thai address, is a sausage, a string, of Province, Muang, Village number, like what is the property catastre registration. That is the "Top level address".

Most people here would not even comprehend what and where to fill in.

My building has the address, of course, 1,340 condos. Some tenants move around the floors but stay within the same top level address.

21 hours ago

John **********

@Jim ******

the important point is does the address registered with immigration contain a condo number or not. If so he needs to register

21 hours ago

Jim *******

@John *********

For marriage based extension of stay, yes.

|Otherwise, moving a floor up in the same building, I think nothing to do with new TM30.

21 hours ago

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Jim *******

Bob **********

Yes

a day ago

CreativeCr***********

Yes. And they say you will need one every year. Even same address.

a day ago

Jim *******

CreativeCrocodile6413 No. Unless the address has changed. I said that before, my neighbor, American, laminated his TM30 docket from 2018. and uses it every year for his 1 year extension of stay. Last extension was mid October 2025. Just before that extension he moved to another condo, 2 floors up, no new TM30. Condo number changed but the top level address of the building has not.

Bangkok, Samut Prakan Immigration office.

In Thai, with Thai driving licence, no hotel ever submitted their own TM30 to zero his previos (and always true) TM30.

He went to the US 4 times over that period of time.

a day ago

CreativeCr***********

@Jim ******

it square in bkk says new tm30 every year.

20 hours ago

Jim *******

CreativeCrocodile6413 Then., I can tell my Immigration office, some annonimous fcuk on the Internet said we have to do it anew every year?

20 hours ago

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Jim *******

Jan ******************

CreativeCrocodile6413 You are required to update the TM30 when you move, and at some immigration offices also when you return to the same address after a stay abroad. Whether a TM30 must be updated when relocating within the same apartment complex is discretionary, but formally it is likely required. In this specific case, since all documentation was already in order, I would personally proceed as is and update the TM30 and submit the new lease at the next application. There is no need to make the process more complicated than necessary.

a day ago

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Jan ******************

As long as your contract covers your future stay, I would simply use what you already have and not mention anything about relocating within the same apartment complex.

a day ago

Nik ****

ORIGINAL POSTER

@Jan *****************

Yes. I have an one-year contract in the apartment.

a day ago

Jim *******

@Nik ***

You have no actually moved. The appartment blcok (however small or big it might be) has the top level address and your other room is within that. I would not touch TM30 unles moving to another place with different street address.

a day ago

Nongnuch ********

@Nik ***

never wake sleeping dogs. As the street adress remains the same, just keep using it

a day ago

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Nongnuch ********

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