Thread: Thailand’s Immigration Eases Reporting Rules for Foreigners

Thailand’s Immigration Bureau reports property owners will no longer be required to report foreign tenants at their properties as often as before. The Immigration Bureau has changed the reporting frequency to only when they arrive.


Section 38 of the Immigration Act requires that property or hotel owners who take in foreigners as guests notify officials within 24 hours.


They do not need to file the reports again if the guests leave the premises temporarily and then return. Or when they have multiple-entry visas or re-entry permits. The bureau called the amendment “a move to end duplication”.

Landlords are still required to report the arrivals of tenants within 24 hours or face a fine up to 10,000 baht.


Landlords include Thai and foreigners property owners
The change followed complaints from property owners about the need to repeatedly file TM30 reports on their foreign guests. Especially every time they arrive at their properties. Complaints were also lodged by foreigners who were unable to get services at immigration offices. Especially for not being able to prove that TM30s had been filed on their behalf.


Landlords include Thai and foreigners who own properties in Thailand. Also hotel managers and other accommodation operators the Immigration Bureau reports.


Property owners are required to file TM30 reports at ???????? - Immigration website; or submit them in person or by mail to the immigration offices in their provinces; or the Immigration Division 1 Office at Government Complex on Chaeng Watthana Road in the case of Bangkok, the Bangkok Post report.

Thailand's Immigration Eases Reporting Rules for Foreigners

and those of us that has lived in the same property for over 10yrs.STILL have to report our address every 90days.

....and continued surface regulations that few will take seriously, less engaged in.

So it goes.

Originally Posted by headhunter

and those of us that has lived in the same property for over 10yrs.STILL have to report our address every 90days.

Yup. Twenty years for me now at the same address.

Originally Posted by HuangLao

....and continued surface regulations that few will take seriously, less engaged in.

So it goes.

Utter gobbledegook, even by your standards.

Originally Posted by cyrille

Utter gobbledegook, even by your standards.

What do you mean "by" his standards? That *is* his standard.

^Yup.

Fuckwit Level: Jeff.