If it’s your 1st 90 day report (or your first from returning back to Thailand) then the report will need to be done in person.

I don’t believe there was any rule stating this. Some embassies may have stated that was the case but it’s a 5 year visa. You have to use it within that time.

30 days or as long as your current stamp is valid until, whichever is the shorter.

@Anthony *****

Not so. An emergency travel document (issued by some countries) is what allows you to return home to get a new passport.

An emergency passport (usually valid for one year) should work the same as a regular passport, but some countries have restrictions on those.

There is no technical expiration date for a TM30 although there is a non compulsory field for “check out date” that some offices could say is the validity date.

However even if you haven’t left Thailand, but stayed in a hotel or hospital somewhere that could override your address in the system.

Some offices won’t care, some will only consider the existing record as the current address on file.

@SteBu *****

Ok. Let us know how you get on and what office you tried. All offices operate differently and it’s hard to keep track of which office will allow what.

Advising people that they can “use any office” is just wrong. I don’t give a shit about your thoughts but I do give a shit about advising people correctly.

@Dmb ******

The OP has a retirement extension he was asking about getting that stamp moved to a new passport. For general stuff like a tourist or visa exempt extension then you can use any office. For the OP it’s a different story.

@Dmb ******

You had a retirement extension and you got a new passport? You randomly chose one of the 80 plus offices around the country and got them to change the stamp over?

@Dmb ******

and you base this advise on what?