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Thai Visas and Visa Runs Tell us about your Thailand visa run experience. Where is the best place to get a visa for Thailand? What paperwork did you need for a Thai Non Immigrant Visa? Where can you get Thai Multiple Entry Visas? Is a Retirement Visa that difficult to get? Want to take your Thai Girlfriend back to the UK? Also for questions on visas to other countries.

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Old 20-08-2008, 11:28 AM   #1 (permalink)
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90-day residence reporting
For those of you that bother with this.

Just a heads-up that at Chiang Mai Tor Mor, they've now decided that as well as reporting your place of residence every 90 days on form TM47, you also need to provide photocopies of your passport picture page, your last entry stamp, your arrival/departure card and ...wait for it...your little stub from your last TM47.

What the fuck do they do with all these identical photocopies they must get month after month? I mean how many times does your passport picture page change? Once in 10 years? Yet they want a fresh copy every three months? I find it totally baffling.

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Old 20-08-2008, 11:29 AM   #2 (permalink)
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they probably resell the paper by the ton, hence making a small profit from it
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Old 20-08-2008, 11:32 AM   #3 (permalink)
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If you observe them closely, the Thai office worker / officer does need a few bits of A4 to sit and shuffle / fiddle with whilst they are dealing with you. If they dont have any papers to shuffle / fiddle with they feel less important. IMHO this is the reason for the myriad of photocopy requests.
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Old 20-08-2008, 11:41 AM   #4 (permalink)
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Hi I am new to this B*** S***, I have a one year retirement Visa , do I have to go every three month or just yearly as I was told , ( or I think I was told )
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Old 20-08-2008, 11:42 AM   #5 (permalink)
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Or they've all got shares in photocopy paper companies and/or the photocopy shop behind the office...
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Old 20-08-2008, 11:45 AM   #6 (permalink)
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Hi I am new to this B*** S***, I have a one year retirement Visa , do I have to go every three month or just yearly as I was told , ( or I think I was told )
If you've been in Thailand for a period of 90 days (regardless of the kind of visa you have), you have to report where you live to immigration. Then 90 days later you have to do it again, and so on for ever and ever. If you leave the country and return, the clock gets reset back to zero and you start counting again.

I should add that going to immigration to renew your visa once a year doesn't count - this 90-day residence reporting thing is entirely separate from your visa.
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Old 20-08-2008, 11:52 AM   #7 (permalink)
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If you've been in Thailand for a period of 90 days (regardless of the kind of visa you have), you have to report where you live to immigration.
If it is more convenient for you, you can also mail in the reporting form along with copies of passport, entry card, and last reporting slip. Should mail within seven days of your reporting date.
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Old 20-08-2008, 11:56 AM   #8 (permalink)
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I think it is a pain having to go to immigration.
Why can't you go to your local amphur police station and report?
When aliens had to report in the UK that is what they did.
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Old 20-08-2008, 11:59 AM   #9 (permalink)
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^ Having loads of foreigners zooming around the country buying photocopies/bus tickets / gasoline / food / tuk tuks / taxis is good for the economy. Thems there the reasons
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Old 20-08-2008, 12:30 PM   #10 (permalink)
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What the fuck do they do with all these identical photocopies they must get month after month?
I guess it is needed to identify yourself.
The TM47 has been filled in with your handwriting so quite possibly they get a few where they cannot read the name.
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Old 20-08-2008, 12:44 PM   #11 (permalink)
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I guess it is needed to identify yourself.
I'm not sure if you've missed the point or I have. Once they have one copy of my passport, why do they need another one?
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Old 20-08-2008, 12:50 PM   #12 (permalink)
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It gives some proof that the sender is genuine.
I could piss about and send in a form with your name on it
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Old 20-08-2008, 01:22 PM   #13 (permalink)
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It gives some proof that the sender is genuine.
Er, I'm talking about visits in person to Tor Mor with my actual passport.
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If you fail to report, when you finally do go in, you will be fined 2,000 Baht and raked over the coals.... Just do it.
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Old 20-08-2008, 01:25 PM   #15 (permalink)
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Sorry. I was thinking about postal reporting.
Yes I agree, what the fok do they do with it all.
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I will go int the immig office now I live in CM, But always before I have done it with EMS a week before I was due, not really a problem,, if they knew that then they would pobly drop the shit, it is mainly the Hassle factor..
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^Hey, BG, you get a 10 day grace period. After that, it's under the discretion of the immigration officer to fine you 2000 baht or not.
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Old 20-08-2008, 04:03 PM   #18 (permalink)
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Yes, there was a reported instance back in 1972 when an immigration officer decided not to fine the applicant who was waiting in front of the immigration office at 0500 hours on the morning of the 11th grace period day.

It made international news headlines.

He was fired that afternoon.
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7 days not 10

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