What are the rules for TM30 registration when traveling within Thailand or abroad?

Register and do it all online now.

If you TM30 to the next stop then Pattaya don't go through to register immigration. Tell hotel to Visa your non-tourist TM30 at 7-Eleven if you want but cannot buy at property. Driver license or permit if you feel good today. That's it unless you don't like.

I have not done that once.

Think of it practically. A tourist arrives on a 60 day visa. The whole idea of the long visa is to see the country and stay in many different hotels. Nothing ever happens if you just leave and go home after the 60 days, no one cares. It only comes to light when you need to go to immigration say for an extension, then you might need to pay the fine if your last place didn't register you. The way around the fine is to do a border run or do as I do and go to a neighbouring country and get a new tourist visa. So in general if you arrive on a 30 day visa exempt or a 60 day tourist visa and you leave the country when that visa expires the TM30 doesn't affect you, no one questions that at the airport. I have been doing this way for 3 decades and I have never had a problem but then again I never go to immigration for an extension of stay either.

It would seem by the comments the TM30 hasn't been explained. When every immigration office has a different interpretation of how it's managed, there isn't an easy interpretation. People need to figure out how their district office wants you to deal with it.

Like all in Thailand , open to interpretation, Hua Hin immigration is the best , enjoy .

When I did my extension at my local office up north on Tuesday I asked about TM30s. The answer was if you travel in Thailand and return to your registered address you do not submit a new TM30. If you travel overseas and return with a re entry permit and return to your registered address then no requirement to submit a new TM30.

I stayed at a hotel 20 K from my home for one night and had to get the owner of the house to re-register me. Kind of a pain.

I stayed for 2 Months in Thailand at 3 different places so far and nobody seems to care about filling in a TM30

No you don’t have to update your TM30 if you travel within Thailand and return to the same address that is written on your TM30. You only have to update your TM30 when you return from abroad to the same address. Different address -the property owner needs to make a new TM30.

It's like having a ankle monitor on, when they started it again

I refused to take a holiday in Thailand

This is the law yes. But like everything in Thailand it depends on the policy of your local office.

Some immigration offices want you to file a new TM30 after any overnight trip away from home.

Some offices only want you to file a new TM30 if you left the country, but domestic travel inside Thailand does not require a new TM30 as long as you return to the same address.

Some offices don't care if you travel inside or outside of Thailand, as long as you return to the same primary home you previously filed a TM30.