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Resetting "The 90-Day Report Counter" With Thai Immigration?

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As the title of this video suggests, we are discussing resetting the 90-day information clock, so informing of your address at Thai Immigration every 90 days. For those that are unaware of this, yes, this is something you have to deal with here in Thailand. It can be done online. We have done a number of videos on that because we don't use it very often and I was making some mistakes in those videos and everybody kept pointing them out to me so I made like three videos all in like a couple of days regarding how the online system works; so we clarified all that. It is also possible to do it analog; you can fill it out by paper and deal with 90-day reporting that way. 

That said, I thought of making this video after reading a recent comment on our channel. Quoting directly: "Does checking into a hotel reset the 90-day report counter? I assume not since that would be too easy." Yeah you assume correct. It's not a matter of it being too easy. The issue is they don't care if your address is changing per se, what they want, what the priority is in my opinion, if you read the statute and you sort of understand what they are doing, the priority is they want foreigners to check in every 90 days with some form of Immigration. So if you sort of want to reset if you will the 90-day report calendar, do a border run. Even if you have a Non-immigrant Visa and you just don't want to deal with 90-day reporting, if you have got time for a vacation before the 90-day reporting happens, take a weekend - go to Phnom Penh, go to Malaysia, go over to Vietnam, whatever and then fly back in and when you are back in as long as you were stamped out before the 90-day mark, between the 89 and 90-day mark or earlier, yeah the 90-day report clock resets when you leave. It does not reset though when you change from one address to another here in the Kingdom of Thailand.