@Brandon ***********

just leave it Brandon. It's not worth it. This guy has a set mind. Your answer is totally right. I was also thinking: "what the hell is he trying to tell us?!".

Won?

Well like any rules and regulations (like carrying your passport always, but people will say "I always take a copy. Never a problem..." Until they pulled you over): it is mandatory (for extention surely, but also in general). If you choose not to get one it is a 1600 baht fine (I believe). I didn't extend in December because I didn't have one...

@Kevin *******

now they have our mugs in the system, it will only get easier... 😂

I entered at BKK last October, 60 day visa exempt. The lady customs officer didn't ask me anything. No boarding pass, no proof of funding, no address where I was going to stay, no return ticket. Nothing. Just my passport, facial recognition and digital fingerprints. And stamped me in.

58 days later I left in the bio check line (face and prints). No actual person. So I just walked out of the country.

I didn't file for the TM30 (Proof of address: I stayed with my girlfriend. It is mandatory, but is only a problem if you want to extend 30 days, which obviously I did not do, because I had no TM30. I regreted it. If you stay at a hotel or homestay, they file for the TM30).

Mind you, I had already been in January/Februari for 33 days (applied for visa already in the Netherlands months before that) and in March 12 days (Australia in between).

No questions were asked about that either in October.

@Wayne ********

hence my remark... experience 😁

120 remarks, and only one or two are correct...

Pfffff

NEVER ask such questions in Facebook! Despite what people don't do or have experienced, to file in the TM30 is mandatory (and yes, you, the tennant, gets the fine as soon as you go to immigration, or are pulled over. And yes, as long as you are not going to be involved with immigration, there is no real need. But again: it is mandatory)...

Same discussion goes for carrying your passport when leaving your hotel. Also mandatory. But most people will say: "I always carry a copy. Never had a problem"... It still is mandatory...

Just go to the official Thai government sources. It is all explained there... Do your own research. Here on Facebook you will only get more confused...

Thia?

@Brian ********

YES! And the fact that you don't do it changes nothing. TM30 is mandatory. And when you come back from a weekend in a different province, say to a hotel or a friends house (btw they have to file too when you stay), you have to file again at your girlfriends house. Every time. But you are right, I didn't do it either... But that meant I didn't stay 30 days longer... I didn't want to risk the hassle and rejection.

@Andy **********

I know... I was just pulling your... eeeeh... leg. 😁