@Ellie ******

haven’t had a problem so far with Bangkok Bank taking up to 2 weeks to do the yearly print out, just need the bank letter and the passbook update to be on the same day but for what it’s worth you can now use the mobile application to request a 12 months statement and they send it by email immediately and for free

@Tod ********

a friend of mine got yelled at by the IO, with an injonction to go back to his country, when he tried to explain that and 2 weeks ago I got send back home and told to come back the following week because I was short of 3 days to make 3 months. May be they don’t understand their own rules and they’re tripping on power but the result is the same ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@Tod ********

not sure if it’s Phuket specific but the « 2 months before, 3 months after » rule seems to apply only the first time you ask for the extension after you got a non-O visa, after that the rule is « 3 months before, 3 months after »

the way to avoid that is to pressure your landlord to file the TM30 as soon as you move in or make sure you ask about it before you sign a lease

In theory the TM30 should be filed by your landlord in the 24h after you check in, they are the ones subjected to a fine if they don’t do it.

@Tod ********

right, it’s just that the whole premise would be not to have to worry about asking your landlord to file a new TM30 while you’re already dealing with the headache of an extension just because you spent the week end in a guest house up country 3 months ago 😅

@Tod ********

I always wondered how that would work with most hotels registering you automatically without telling you 🤔

might not be the case here but the first time you do a 90 report, or if you changed your address, you can’t do it online, you have to go in person

@Darren *****

not entirely, the labour law specifies minimums, I encountered this issue when we had to fire an employee on the spot. The labour office came after us because we should have give them 3 months notice or 3 months severance because they had been working with us more than 3 years. In the end it went nowhere because they were fired with cause but I learned about that.

@Jimmy ******

I believe that depending on how long you have been working in a given place the law says you have 1 to 3 months notice, that’s usually enough time to find a solution