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As the title of this video suggests, we are discussing 90-day reporting and TM30, not exactly topics that many expats like to hear about. This is kind of one of those things that yeah the TM30 has really kind of been the bane of everyone's existence since we saw it pop up back in what was it, 2018? In any event, I thought of making this video after reading a recent article from the Pattaya Mail, that is pattayamail.com, the article is titled: 10 reasons why your online 90 day reporting fails. “Quoting number 2: You haven't completed a TM30 form for 2 years or so (even if you haven't left Thailand).” 

Yeah there are a lot of aspects to the online 90-day reporting that are, what do you call it? There are a lot of bugs in the system and some wonder 'is that a feature or a bug?' but long story short, it's quite a cumbersome platform to use to deal with your 90-day report. Now there are going to be some folks especially folks living in like rural Thailand, who are saying: "look, I would rather take a couple of hours and work with this buggy online system than having to get in a car and drive for a couple of hours to get to the Immigration Office just to deal with the 90-day report." The same is probably true in some of the more high volume Immigration Officers because even if you're close by, living in proximity, you still have to wait around to deal with it, so I do understand why people want to use the online system. But as noted both in that article and with that specific entry that I just cited, there are just a number of different ways in which that system is rather obtuse and I have no shortage of correspondence from folks who have tried to use the online system and basically just threw up their hands and said "fine, I will just do it by paper, or..".  We have a lot of clients we end up assisting them within 90-day reports that are clients of the firm because we are out at Immigration so often that we can often facilitate that. 

So again, different people choose to do things differently but long story short, that online 90-day reporting system is cumbersome and obtuse at the best of times and there are a number of little quirks and things that can cause a person to not be able to file their 90-day reporting online here in the Kingdom of Thailand.