@Jeremy *******

, ONLY THE F......... FIRST TIME you arrive to your permanent address. Why is this so hard to understand?

@Jeremy *******

, no, you are not reading what I keep saying. Please try to read it again. I am very consistent on this.

@Jeremy *******

, but ONLY when you arrive the very first time, ok? I arrived at my house in 2007. At that time no one cared about TM30. Some years later Immigration asked me to get the TM30 done. This is more than 4 years ago now.

@Jeremy *******

, what you don't understand here, is that you still have to report within 24 hours when you first time come to your home/address. On the TM30 the landlord has to state how long you are gonna stay with him. As long as the reported validity period has not expired, your landlord does not have to rereport if you leave and return for short trips in the country or out of the country. To make it truly complicated a number of visa extensions will include an update to the validity period of the TM30 even though the form is not named TM30. To make it totally confusing, the different Immigration offices have their own ideas about this area also as if they don't know or don't care about the official policy from the Immigration Bureau.

@Jeremy *******

, again you have no clue about how the laws work in Thailand. You think it is the same as Europe or the US, but it is not. You are NOT referring to the policy but to the law. But the govt. activates or deactivates the rules as they please. Many times it makes it confusing to find out what is actually the policy. It is so confusing that even the different Immigration offices do not agree on the policy, exactly how ppl are telling you here from their own experiences. The official policy will many times only be available by statements from the Immigration Bureau to the newspapers.

@Jeremy *******

, I read that article numerous times. This is an old story for the ones of us staying in Thailand for years.

"The Immigration Bureau has changed the reporting frequency to only when they arrive. They do not need to file the reports again if the guests leave the premises only temporarily and then return, or when..."

@Jeremy *******

, you have no clue about this also. If you are returning to the same permanent address and the previously filed TM30 is still valid, then you officially dont have to reregister. But tell me if you know who is facing a fine of 10,000 THB and who is only facing a fine of 2,000 THB? I guess you have no clue either...

@John *********

, in 2019 TM30 and TM28 were strictly enforced. Then in 2020 both were almost entirely lifted again. But who knows whom of the officers who knows 🙂