I’m at Surat Thani immigration, I travelled out of Thailand and I asked before leaving if I needed to do a new TM30 on my return and they said no. I went to immigration last week to get a residency certificate and a different immigration officer said that I must do a new TM30 as I’d been to Hua Hin recently. So it really depends who you talk to!
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