What is the new Thailand Digital Arrival Card (TDAC) system and how does it affect travelers?

System goes live 28th April

Thank you!

I have a DTV visa how will it be ?

And some I’m not planning booking until I’m there

Do you have to put every date hotel and address your staying ? Iv 7 hotels and dates

Very interesting looks ok apart from all.the details for accommodation where if you are unfamiliar with thailands address format you will struggle to fill it in, looks like all the fields are mandatory or the form won't accept your input? When filling in a card you didn't have to get it right if you didn't know!!! Now you need to get it right. Most infrequent travellers won't have a clue!!!!

Lord help you if your phone dies on arrival at bkk,.

Stupid and unnecessary as the Camboda eArrival

I don't believe anything before it's published in the royal gazette

Merci 🙏

Well, this is another unnecessary barrier to travel.

TM6 was not used for a long time.

Travelers from the Americas lose 1 day because of the date change.

Travelers who first visit places with difficult to access internet, like China, will struggle to fill out this Arrival Card.

Travelers who are not fluent in English will struggle also.

Furthermore, the Airlines will not know how to use this Arrival Card, causing confusion and delays at check in.

Lastly, there are many opportunities for messing up critical information like passport numbers and dates.

@David *****

there used to be arrival & departure cards for many years. You could fill on the flight or at the immigration queue upon arrival. It disappeared for a while now coming back as an online form to be submitted 3 days prior

Still waiting to hear about the 60 to 30 day visa!

You need that to enter do you need to fill out anything when leaving like before

Just did a trial fill in ... its very easy

As TM6 hasnt been required at airports for a long time now, this makes me confused... what is this new system about?

So many coming up with reasons why it will fail before they have even used it. Looks quite straightforward to me.

Just wait on how many people don’t do it or didn’t no about it . It’s going to be mental 😳

Thanks 🙏 for sharing this, very

useful / helpful information:

Am I required to do this coming from Australia ? I always just arrive and receive a 60 day visa exempt.

@Law ****

For us 😂😂

Hi I’m looking to get a retirement visa can you send me details please 🙏

What the hell do people with Visas put, those with DTV, Residence, Retired? Designed by monkeys approved by people that have no clue as always. Its not hard to get it right first time by asking someone who knows. They could have asked me an I'd have done a better job of it. Oh lord.

You can't do in the BKK as the internet needs a local phone number (unless that changed recently) which you don't have until you pass the place in which you need the internet. I really wish people would stop saying internet is available in BKK. It isn't unless you have a Thai phone number. It also only last one hour BTW. Once you get outside there is another system which you can access near the grab booth (if it works). This usually works but its too late by then. Immigration (were) planning on putting booths in arrivals to allow people to complete it but i am guessing currently that airlines will add this to the "list" of things you need to have done it prior to boarding BUT I'm yet to get any info on this from the IATA. If it gets added to timatic i will be told but by then people may have been caught..

This is amazing....you tell they you don't a return ticket...it gets accepted. Airline possibly deny you boarding based on the rules for your country of residence and departure point. Amazing.....No options for people with existing visas in the list of purpose of visit. What do you put if you live here with residence? Retirement Visa also no option but "other". The country list is all over the place as always. British is under G then other times is UK under U.

TIT They will find a way to F it up!

If you have a retirement visa and live in Thailand is this still required on your return if you travel overseas ?

What about people who book a flight last minute? I’ve done that many times; depressed after a week of long work days, have a drink on a Thursday night thinking “I need a weekend getaway” and bought flights to depart Friday 😂What happens then? At least the paper version could have been filled in during the flight or on arrival

PS I’m NOT talking about how long it takes to fill the form, it’s about the “must be submitted 3 days prior” that I’m addressing.

Very helpful information

We love surveillance. 😍 It gives us a sense of a safe tourist destination. 🤡

If it's anything like Malaysias, it's very simple to do.