Do I need to submit a TM30 every time a foreigner returns to the same residence in Thailand?

It's a good point. I purposely refuse to give my passport to resorts etc because of this. My UK driver's license or old passport normally comes in handy. If you've booked with Agoda or similar, surly they have your credit card details etc.

if you are going to stay in any person house as guest, then the owner of the property have to make TM30.

This sums it up, nicely

No need

The Royal Thai Police has recently issued the new Regulation which provides some Expats’ relief on the requirement of TM30 reporting, as well as for property owners (i.e., house-master, owners or lessors of a residence) and hotel managers in Thailand. The new Regulation was published in the Government Gazette on 16 June 2020 and it has been effective from 30 June 2020 onwards.

According to the new Regulation, property owners and hotel managers are required to submit TM30 report only for the first time when the foreigner arrives at their premises. It is no longer required to repeatedly submit TM30 reports every time when a foreigner travels out of the country or temporary stays in other premises (i.e., no need to re-report upon returns to stay in the same premises within the check-in period, rental period, or within the period of their re-entry permit).

Prior to this new Regulation, when a foreigner left Thailand or temporarily stayed overnight in another place, a TM30 report needed to be re-submitted every time, within 24 hours as from the foreigner’s return from a trip back to stay in the same premises.

Ok after 12 years dancing to this song. It is not your responsibility to report where you are staying. That falls on where you stay, not you. My wife got fined 1600 baht for not reporting my return to our house when renewing my retirement Visa. However a different day will produce a different outcome.

Lost count of how many TM 30s I've gotten

I done tm30 at my brothers house when I first arrived and cos I left Thailand I got do tm30 again when I arrive within 24 hours , what I would like to know is if a billionaire lives overseas renting the property out to me , how does immigration expect me to get an ID and house book etc from a billionaire renting property out . This Tm30 Is a just a joke really, some rules apply , some dont, immigration may accept and immigration may not accept . Seems you just got to guess what to do , and that's if you can get it done , there must be many people who refuse to give iD, I can't see a billionaire who rents out property giving me a copy of his ID and letter to say I can live at his property, so I can take it to immigration , the billionaire will think I am just taking the piss . And as for online can you see the billionaire sitting there taking his time up doing something for an unknown person he don't know . Absolute joke TM30 .

I don't bother with it. Last time I went to do it at Sisaket immi, they looked at each other as to say, is this farang for real? Na. They really don't care.

Not if you are based there, you should have a copy of the tm30 with that address stapled into your passport by immigration

In Udon Thani it isn’t necessary to do TM 30 again after coming back from a Trip, if you stay at the same address/ house again. You have to ask at your immigration!!!

I've lived in Thailand for 41 years and have never done aTM 30.

No need for TM30 at Jomtien IO when traveling within Thailand, only when returning from outside Thailand. I have been here 11 years and never had a problem

You can set up a online account easy

I would check with your Immigration office, what they require. In theory everytime you sleep somewhere else other than home you have to submit a TM 30.

I travel every 6-8 weeks to Isaan to visit my family, and have done so for years. Apparently the village chief notifies local immigration that I am there. But have never been asked in Jomtien immigration about this when I rapport my 90 days. Think it's important for immigration to know where you are in the country (travel etc) but upon return no need to notify

Each IM office will tell you what they want so you do what is relevant to the IM office you use. So just ask them.

My online 90 day reporting was rejected because the last tm30 on file was done by the resort I stayed in for 2 days in Chiang Rai. While it may be technically true for some IO’s won’t require updated tm30’s every time you leave your residence you may still get rejected on the online reporting

Welcome to selective enforcement in Thailand. By letter of law, yes, new TM30 every time. It depends on your immigration office if this is enforced, mine is okay with doing it when I return from abroad, and not doing a new one when I travel in Thailand.

Never dome it the 9 year's i been living here. If stay at hotel, they report

I simply ask the hotel to not file a TM 30.

I got in trouble with my local Immigration office here in Ubon Ratchathani for not getting a new TM30 from the office of the condominium where I live after I had been to Bangkok for a few nights.

The hotel in Bangkok copied my passport - as they all do - and registered my stay with them with Immigration.

When I presented my TM30 to the office in Ubon they checked my passport number on their system and said the TM30 from the condo was not valid.

I had to go back to the condo office and them to raise a new TM30.

My local Immigration office are very helpful. They said I must do this any time I stay somewhere else, a hotel or a private residence.

It all depends on which immigration

Ask your immigration office. The requirement to make a new TM30 at your homeplace was kind of removed, but that is not law, it is just a police order.

IF your local immigration office requires you to do an TM3o when you come home, then ask them how to do it online. There is a web page how to do it and in general you can do it via LINE.

Many IOs only require a new filing if you return from travel outside the country, some may require a new one any time you spend time away from your primary residence. I don't live in BKK so don't know their requirements. Either way, if the home owner you stay with is registered it takes two minutes to file and print.

Legally... every time. Also every time you spend a night away from your house, you need to resubmit it also when you return. The advice here is not legally correct from most people.

In practice, if the person/guest is never going to visit a immigration office then you likely don't need to worry about it, if they plan to do an extension whist at your place... it's a very good idea.

If you're leaving your house and stay in accommodations that actually follows the law and lodge their guests with the government (ie real hotels) then you should relist yourself back home when you return. If you stay in cheaper motel/homestays that don't follow the law and don't send all the paperwork to the government then likely it looks like to the government that you've never left your house.

Also legally we should all be doing TM28 every time we are in ANY province

for more than 24 hours, so if you're doing a road trip across the country you should be doing one just about everyday :)

50yo immigration laws are crazy! Over my 19 years here the laws have been enforces in a dozen different ways, and it's often different in different provinces as each head of station follows the rules as they want.

The same issue covered here. My TM30 hadn't been updated in 8 years, except I never noticed...Immi was OK with that because it's always the same address on every 90 day/extention. 1/?comment_id=5&reply_comment_id=3&locale=th_TH

My IO is only interested in my permanent residence not places I might visit from time yo time. Then once a year on renewal.

Do you have a thai partner ?

I don't know for sure what Bangkok does but my immigration officer told me I don't have to renew it every time just every 90 days

True and not true. Need to, no...only if you move to a place and live there.

Once I read in a site, especially for expats: example, I live in Chiang Mai. I'm going to travel only for 1 day outside CM, you report it to the police.

For me, the last is pure nonsense, I just wanna share what I read.