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    Visa 90 day reporting rules

    I have a retirement visa and report every 90 days ,i understand that i can report 14 days early or 7 days late without penalty

    Therefor if i leave Thailand by air on the 92 nd day, am I still legal under the 7 day late rule

    advice would be appreciated

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    I went 2 year with out 90 day reporting the fine was 1000b under the table or 2000b on top of the table.
    I post my 90 day reporting in, some time they loose my letter.
    1 time they lost my 90 day reporting I sent it 2 times still not a problem.
    So 2 days over will not be a problem.

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    Quote Originally Posted by donald36
    Therefor if i leave Thailand by air on the 92 nd day, am I still legal under the 7 day late rule
    Go to your local immigration office a few days before you travel. Then you have 90 days to your next report date. Not difficult unless you live more than 3 days ride away with a good horse.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Ratchaburi View Post
    Donald
    I went 2 year with out 90 day reporting the fine was 1000b under the table or 2000b on top of the table.
    I post my 90 day reporting in, some time they loose my letter.
    1 time they lost my 90 day reporting I sent it 2 times still not a problem.
    So 2 days over will not be a problem.
    If you're leaving the county just remove the reporting card, immigration at the airports is only concerned with overstay, not 90 day reports. 90 day reports are a local thing.

    My first few years here I never bothered 90 day reporting.

    But lately the fine is 5000 baht in Phuket. 5000 baht will buy 30 liters of wine!

    Reporting these days is a piece of cake, they got it all on the puter. You don't even sign anything.
    Some places try to charge money for the reporting, officially there is no fee.

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    Im only asking to avoid the 240 kilometre roundtrip to "local" immigration office

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    You are correct, you can report 15 days early OR 7 days late..
    4. The notification must be made within 15 days before or after 7 days the period of 90 days expires.
    Where you misunderstand is that there is NO grace period if you're leaving the country after the 90th day.

    You most likely will be "caught" for it when you re-enter and do your next 90 day report after that, because you failed to report "staying in the country longer than 90 days".

    I know at Chaengwattana you'll be fined for sure because the guy ahead of me in line pulled or tried to pull the "14 day early 7 day late" song and dance (he'd left the country on the 95th day before without reporting). The officer said, "You left thailand without reporting you were here for 90 days, you owe 2000baht." He wasn't happy but paid..

    It doesn't matter a bit if you take the paper out of your passport or not at the airport. Passport Control doesn't give two shites about 90 day reporting.

    Now that finally every single border in the country is thai'd errr tied or linked together and available to see at any Immigrations office, they know when/where you exited the country from and when/where you re-entered the country from.

    So to re-cap,
    • NO there is no grace period if you're leaving AFTER the 90th day even by a single day!
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    • Yes you can and will most likely be caught for the failure to report!
    The minimum fine is 2000baht, but it can be up to 5000baht plus 200 baht a day for every day over the 90th day you've not reported until you report again.

    Now honestly, I've never seen that "plus 200 a day" enforced. I did see someone who argued about late reporting have his fine go from 2000 to 5000..

    "chassamui" offers the best advice; go early..

    WOW, that's a slog to get there. What Immigrations office is it? Do you know if they accept mail in 90 day reporting?
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    ^Curious I've ever encountered that kind of nitpicking.
    The 90 days biz starts from when you enter the country. I guess I've been lucky.

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    Thank you Todd for that most comprehensive reply ,I will be sure to report early

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    Quote Originally Posted by toddaniels
    Do you know if they accept mail in 90 day reporting?
    I believe that 90 day reporting can be done by post at any office under current rules? Todd will know for sure.
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    I believe that 90 day reporting can be done by post at any office under current rules?
    Sadly, that is NOT the case, and some immigrations offices don't allow 90 day reporting by mail. I don't have a list of the ones that do or don't though.

    As to Mr Earl's comment;
    I think we're going to see a LOT more picking of nits regarding failure to do 90 day reporting.

    A while back the computers in the 90 day reporting area weren't even able to see the data logged into the system in the rest of the building as far as extensions of stay because the 90 day reporting area had its own data base.

    That changed last year, and at least in Bangkok when you turn in your 90 day report they can see what type of extension you're on, how long until it expires, how many years you've been on extensions.

    Then just recently all the border crossings got linked together. Unless I'm mistaken when you do your 90 day reporting, it shows your exits/entries into the country as far as when and where. This would lead me to believe that they're gonna be able to catch people who leave w/out doing their 90 day reporting because they thought there is a grace period in the process.

    I do believe thai'ing, err tieing all this data Immigrations compiles on us foreigners together so it can be accessed is a good thing. Hopefully it'll eventually pay off with a streamlining of the system.

    I'm not holding my breath but Immigrations has sure gotten a LOT more tech savvy then they were a couple years ago..

    Oh one more thing, don't forget, if you're in Bangkok and want to do your 90 day reporting you can go to the immigrations office at Big C Ladprao Soi 83 or you can go to Major Hollywood Suksawat across the river..

    I was at LadPrao the other day with a couple passports for 90 day reporting and was out in under 2 minutes!

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    Is that in respect of any extension and nationality?

    Ladprao as opposed to Laksi would be great.

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    Quote Originally Posted by toddaniels
    I do believe thai'ing, err tieing all this data Immigrations compiles on us foreigners together so it can be accessed is a good thing. Hopefully it'll eventually pay off with a streamlining of the system.
    Thanks for the update on 90 day reporting by Post.
    I would like to believe you are right about stream lining the system and the associated benefits of that. I do think there a 4 major issues with it though.
    1. It involves input from humans
    2. The humans involved are Thai
    3. They are uniformed Thai
    4. Data input is crucial. Garbage in = garbage out.

    Anyone who has been here for any length of time knows there are some decent immigration staff. Like most walks of life they are few and far between. My recent experiences with staff at Surat Immigration have mostly been very good.

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    Those two additional locations I mentioned are for anyone who lives in Bangkok and has to do 90 day reporting.

    In fact, unless you're Cambodian, Laotian or Burmese you can't do anything at those two offices except turn in a 90 day report. All "official visa/extension business" is done at the Government Complex at Chaengwattana.

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