lothda

Last Saturday I departed from Suvarnabhumi on a short trip. I knew I had trouble coming when the officer at the passport check removed the (stapled in) Receipt of Notification of my 90 days report. I politely asked for it back as it has always to be returned when doing the next report. It even has a stamp "KEEP IN PASSPORT". He insisted that he had to keep it. I explained that this might be something new that I didn't know about but I would prefer to have it back. He didn't seem to understand or be willing to give it back. I repeated my argument several times until he finally gave in and returned it to me. I thanked him sincerely. My next thought was to be careful not to loose it now as it was no longer stapled in. Of course then I lost it some time before boarding my flight

Has anybody encountered this before? What happens if you can't produce the old receipt on doing the next report? Of course I know the 90 days start anew on arrival back in Thailand. On the immigration webpage it even says to mail in "Previous notifications of staying over 90 days (if any)" (I've been doing the reporting by mail for a long time now).

Thank you any information and opinions.

My retirement extension (800k method) was unremarkable this year. Arrived before opening time, nine ahead of me in the queue, got called after 50 minutes, finished in 25 minutes (no fingerprint scan this time).

There was a change for obtaining the re-entry permit. Apart from the filled form the officer required copies of the passport data page, the page with the last entry stamp, the page with the current permission to stay and the departure card. (He apologised for the trouble.)

Contrary to some rumours no copies of any passport pages were required for the 90 days report - just the filled form and the passport as before. I was 9 days early for the report which was accepted, so I assume that statements on this board about the margin for reporting now being 10 days before or after the actual reporting date are correct. The video shown today in the waiting room stated 10 days for reporting by mail (in advance only in this case), while it was 7 days before. The immigration website still states 7 days for both personal and mail reporting which I now consider outdated.

90 day report sent on April 4, 7 days before the due date, by EMS with appropriate documents including return envelope stamped with 10 Baht. Received the slip back today April 20. Return envelope was stamped April 18. Passport copies were returned and a blank TM 47 included. Contrary to some posts here there was no notice that the report could be sent earlier than 7 days before the due date.

I recently tried to order two DVDs from deepdiscount.com. The items were in stock and Thailand was in the list of countries they shipped to. I experienced a timeout error when submitting my (Thai) credit card details. My order showed as "open" for a while, then I received an e-mail that I had cancelled the order and would not be charged. I enquired about this and got this e-mail days later (my emphasis):

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I had a good laugh. Fortunately Amazon had the items back in stock and I'm ordering from them now as I have for years without problems.