Does leaving Thailand reset my 90-day reporting requirement for my retirement visa?

February 8, 2024
8 months ago
Rj ******
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Need clarification please.

I just got my retirement visa and i kniw every 90 days must check in with immigrations. Question is if say after 73 days i was to leave the country and later return does my new time remain at 90 days from my re entry date

So i need not worry about the 73 days plus time i was out of the country.
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When you leave Thailand with your retirement visa, the 90-day reporting requirement resets upon your re-entry. This means you do not need to combine the time spent inside the country (73 days in this case) with the time you'll be outside; rather, your new reporting period will start from the day you enter Thailand again. However, you are also required to perform a TM30 notification when returning, regardless of your accommodation.
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Lee ***********
If its the 5 year come and go vise then on a permanent stay you check in, if you leave and return that is your check in with immigration and should re start the 90 days, it's your length of stay in the country from point of entry when each 90 days starts and ends.
Nongnuch ********
@Rj *****
what you call "retirement visa" probably is a "1-year Extension of Stay Permit" based on retirement, and NOT a "visa" at all. . . . . . . . . . so if you don't want to lose this one-year stay permit when exiting Thailand, you need to buy a single re-entry permit für 1000.- THB. You can buy it either at your Immigration or at the BKK airport in the section "Departure 2". The re-entry permit will keep your stay permit alive. When you return, you will be stamped in until the expiry date of the "Extension of Stay Permit". And the 90-days report clock starts over, beginning with the day you enter as day number one. Your old 90-days report slip (in case you still had that in your passport) becomes invalid
Bryan ********
You need to get a re-entry permit from immigration or airport. If you don’t your retirement visa will be cancelled and you have to start again and apply for a new retirement visa.
Nongnuch ********
@Bryan *******
I don't think he still has a "retirement visa". He rather has a one-year stay permit based on retirement (a 1-Year Extension of Stay Permit based on retirement). However you are right, he needs a re-entry permit in order to keep his stay permit alive when exiting Thailand
Chuck *********
@Bryan *******
if he has a multiple entry Visa then no problem.
Bryan ********
@Chuck ********
sorry, I didn’t read it properly.
Chuck *********
@Bryan *******
no problem. Thanks for taking the time to respond.
Paul *******
@Bryan *******
Is this re-entry permit necessary at the airport, if you have a Non O Multipple entry visa?

Doesn't the new stamp in the passport show this?
Ken ******
yes but instead you need to do TM30
Al ********
@Ken *****
if your entering Thailand with a retirement visa with unlimited entries from the Thai royal embassy in your home country and you don’t stay longer then 90 days in Thailand you don’t need to do a TM30. I’ve never done one and never had a problem entering or exiting Thailand. I do stay at the wife’s house not a hotel
Ken ******
@Al *******
in law, still need to do but they didn't find out due to their online system
Al ********
@Ken *****
if that’s the case they would say something at BKK airport. I did talk with local immigration they said no need
Al ********
@Ken *****
not according my local immigration officer. I spoke with her
Rj ******
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@Al *******
but you stay less than 90 days and you leave for whatever and return again and stay less than 90 days each visit
Ken ******
@Rj *****
every country has its own

rule,so far it seems the

philippines is most friendly and

much less restrictive, nothing

like 90 day or TM30, for retirees, same for malaysia
Al ********
Chuck *********
I sent too quickly

What will happen when I do my 1st 90 day report?
Ken ******
@Chuck ********
immi will ask you TM30
Rj ******
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Rj ******
ORIGINAL POSTER
@Ken *****
i have it all filled out
Chuck *********
@Ken *****
what if I am staying at hotel? They said they reported but they cannot give me a copy?
Rj ******
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@Ken *****
explain what you mean do, why redo the one they have
Ken ******
@Rj *****
immigration advised have to do TM30 every time returned to the country, even your own home address
Lloyd *********
@Ken *****
correct , Chaiyaphum immigration now require this.
Peter *********
Correct 90 days starts again on the day you enter Thailand 🇹🇭
Graham ******
it's 90 consecutive days in the country not atotal
Steve *******
Yep. 90 days resets when you re-enter the Country
Stephen *******
Leaving the country resets the date to 1. It's 90 days IN country reporting.
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