Anyone here have experience with needing to get a TM 30 for the 90 day report without a rental agreement or more permanent address?
I am traveling to every province in Thailand for the next 4-5 months and will need to do my 90 day report during my travels inside the country.
Not planning on leaving the country for a border run either.
Some people say you can get a TM 30 from a hotel but I haven't heard details about that.
Any tips?
thank you
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TLDR : Answer Summary
The post discusses the challenges of completing the 90-day report in Thailand while traveling, specifically without a rental agreement or permanent address. It explores the use of TM30 forms from hotels and provides various community suggestions and experiences, highlighting that many hotels register guests online for TM30s. Tips include obtaining a printout from hotels to facilitate the 90-day report process at local immigration offices.
90 DAY REPORTING RESOURCES / SERVICES
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When you check in at a hotel they ask for your passport which they photocopy so they can register you online for the TM30. If you are in private accommodation you will probably need a printout but in a hotel immigration can see the TM30 online
™30 is a bureaucratic NIGHTMARE, it's one of the many ways the government tortures foreigners by doing things 1970s style. But the real question is: why are you getting TM30s? You'll waste a half day of your life and several hundred baht in transport costs. You may even be refused, because you'll have to have documents only the landlord has. Yet the consequences? AFAIK the only thing you need a TM30 for is to get a tourist stamp extension. And that can even be "cheated" by staying 1 night in a hotel and using the TM30 they get for you. Just one night.
You guys are the clowns - 90 day reporting is the SECOND thing to waste your life after the TM30 that has 0 consequences whatsoever for not doing. So you #1 are wrong - you can take a 1 night stay TM30 to do a 90 day report, and #2 are wrong - you can just skip the damned 90 day reporting it is utterly pointless.
The land owner, the house owner, the landlord, or you as possessor of the property needs to report your address within 24 hours of arrival, if you stay at hotels the manager of the hotel must do it.
Just ask the print out if done on-line, or the receipt when done in person, after your arrival.
When your address is registered in that area, you can visit Immigration to do your 90 day inside Thailand report.
Thank you. Would the hotel manager need to / be able to give me the TM 30 then? I'd need to take that to immigration, right? Or would they be sending it to them?
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