@Dennis *********

its not the week or two that doesn't matter, its if you will have no interaction with immigration office/police you wont be asked to produce it.

Historically it was full of people on 30 day excemptions topping up to 60. There are going to be far fewer real tourists topping up 60 days to 90.

As the e-mails are auto generated its quite common for these to be treated as spam/junk by your e-mail client and for it to file them straight away unless you have flagged the sender as a contact/not junk.

For most offices, it would be acceptable to have the bank letter, the statement from the bank and photo copies of your bank book pages dated within 7 days of your application, and on the day make a withdrawl (making sure the balance doesnt drop below the required amount), update the bank book, get a copy of the latest page.

@Ross *********

agree, but i'm pretty sure your not aware of all the laws that actually exist in your home country. The onus with this scenario is it falls to the visitor to keep on top of it and communicate it when not staying in hotels.

As others have said its the law that every foreign visitor ( were all vistors regardless of visa) is registered within 24 hours (even those married with kids living in the family home). But don't get hung up on the 24 hour thing, just get it done as practically possible and enter the check in date as the date that the report is being filled in. (Dont try and back date it).

@Brook *******

your passport yes

@David ********

more to the story then...

You really need to understand the context of the statement, and when and where the conversation that included the word 'banned' happened. If the person was trying to enter the country with an extensive history as you described they aren't a tourist anymore. The IO could have said "i'll let you in but its the last time" or i'll let you in but your banned from using exempt again this year", or rejected them and said "your banned from entering without a visa because of your history". Proper bans are usually applied at departure and are linked to overstays ( or some expulsion action). Its possible on exit that the IO on exit noticed the history and warned the person that they were banned from entering again this year on exempt again. If it was a proper ban, they would would know the length. Its most likely banned from entering (refused entry) as not having proper visa, ( based on historic stays).

@Jim *******

if thats your interpretation of the wording, then so be it, but i couldn't find it within the DTA. But DTA's are complex documents and I may well have missed it.