If you get the stamp transferred and the new Extension at the same time, it adds at least an hour to the time you have to spend there, as you have to get a queue number for the transfer first (N2) and then a queue number for the Extension (N1). We got both queue numbers at the same time, but the Extension numer was called before we'd finished doing the transfer, and was a little chaotic.

If you don't plan leaving Thailand for a while, the child doesn't need any stamp in their passport. The first time they leave you will need to show the Thai birth certificate at Passport Control at the airport and they stamp the passport.

Get the child a passport as soon as you can. They won't need a visa until or if they enter Thailand after leaving for the first time. As others have said, they can enter as visa exempt and then overstay as there is no fine or ban for kids overstaying. However they do get an overstay stamp in their passport.

@Wilson ****

Currently TM30 reporting is only occasionally being enforced in Bangkok.

@Wilson ****

How unusual.

@Adam *****

It should be a yellow book for a foreigner.

Where was the Immigration Officer that gave this advice - the airport or in an Immigration office?

@Tod ********

I didn't know this. Is the TM28 required for anything now or has it been discontinued?

@John *************

Maybe you needed more than just a TM28 receipt; I think authentication of address is different.

@John *************

We moved condos again recently and I just sent a TM28 in the mail with my 90 day report.