@Kevin *******

now they have our mugs in the system, it will only get easier... 😂

I entered at BKK last October, 60 day visa exempt. The lady customs officer didn't ask me anything. No boarding pass, no proof of funding, no address where I was going to stay, no return ticket. Nothing. Just my passport, facial recognition and digital fingerprints. And stamped me in.

58 days later I left in the bio check line (face and prints). No actual person. So I just walked out of the country.

I didn't file for the TM30 (Proof of address: I stayed with my girlfriend. It is mandatory, but is only a problem if you want to extend 30 days, which obviously I did not do, because I had no TM30. I regreted it. If you stay at a hotel or homestay, they file for the TM30).

Mind you, I had already been in January/Februari for 33 days (applied for visa already in the Netherlands months before that) and in March 12 days (Australia in between).

No questions were asked about that either in October.

@Wayne ********

hence my remark... experience 😁

120 remarks, and only one or two are correct...

Pfffff

NEVER ask such questions in Facebook! Despite what people don't do or have experienced, to file in the TM30 is mandatory (and yes, you, the tennant, gets the fine as soon as you go to immigration, or are pulled over. And yes, as long as you are not going to be involved with immigration, there is no real need. But again: it is mandatory)...

Same discussion goes for carrying your passport when leaving your hotel. Also mandatory. But most people will say: "I always carry a copy. Never had a problem"... It still is mandatory...

Just go to the official Thai government sources. It is all explained there... Do your own research. Here on Facebook you will only get more confused...

Thia?

@Brian ********

YES! And the fact that you don't do it changes nothing. TM30 is mandatory. And when you come back from a weekend in a different province, say to a hotel or a friends house (btw they have to file too when you stay), you have to file again at your girlfriends house. Every time. But you are right, I didn't do it either... But that meant I didn't stay 30 days longer... I didn't want to risk the hassle and rejection.

@Andy **********

I know... I was just pulling your... eeeeh... leg. 😁

Thai wife extention? Isn't that called a ladyboy? 🤣

I got in on Oktober 23, staying for 58 days (back in the Netherlands now).

I was going to stay at my girlfriends place, and travel a bit together.

At the airport no questions were ask. Just a check of my passport (not even the boardingpass). So no inquieries about where I was going to stay (I had her address prepared on print in three languages). No proof of flight back or even when. I just got a stamp... mind you, this was my third entry this year. First in January with a visa (it was longer than 30 days). Then, after a month in Australia, I came back for 12 days (the love is strong 😊), 30 day visa exempt. And, this time 60 days exempt. Easy peasy...

This Thursday I flew back home. I checked through customs with passport (self)scan and facial recognition. No questions ask, no proof of where I had been (TM30, which we did not enter. But that could have been a problem if I had decided tot extend 30 days at immigration. It was tempting, but I didn't want any hassle and maybe have to convince an officer that I am really a tourist visiting his girlfriend, and maybe get rejected because of playing with the exempt system. And you only prolong the hurt of leaving for 30 days).

I entered Oktober 23, visa exempt, from the Netherlands. No questions asked (not even where I was going to stay, or how long). I was in line for about 30 minutes (it was busy). The digitale systems speeds up things.

Never use an agency. It's a waist of money. Entering Thailand is childsplay. Just choose the right system/visa up front.