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As the title of this video suggests, we are discussing 90-day reporting and TM30. For those who are unaware, those who are in Thailand on a Non-Immigrant Visa who will be in Thailand more than 90 days, need to file what is called a 90-day Report with Thai Immigration where you report your address and those who come into Thailand to live in Thailand who are foreign nationals, Thai Immigration Law specifically the Immigration Act of 1979, requires that an address report be made to Thai Immigration; this is often called TM30 because that is the name of the form, it's a TM30 form.

Recently I saw a comment on one of our videos and to quote that directly, quote: "Do you have to do a TM30 every 90 days if you live in Thailand when you do your 90-day reporting on an O Visa, or just if you move residency?" Yeah there is a little bit of confusion here. If you go back a few years there was a ton of confusion because it was something of a different system. So, 90-day reporting and TM30 are two different things. TM30 needs to be reported on your residence, where you live. So you file a TM30 in connection with where you live in Thailand. 90-day reporting is simply re-reporting that address every 90 days if you stay in Thailand without leaving over the course of 90 days. If you leave Thailand and you come back in, the clock restarts for your 90-day reporting from the time you come back in. So, that's how to deal with the 90-day reporting side. 

On TM30, it used to be there was what was called a TM28 which was required if you even technically if you stayed overnight in a different address than the one you lived in, you had to file a TM28 to go stay there and file a TM28 to go back to the prior address. A couple of years back they created the TM27 and then regulatory kind of got rid of all that. So the rule of thumb now is basically one TM30 to report where you live. If you change where you live, the rule of thumb is do another TM30. As far as 90-day reporting, you don't continue to report TM30 every 90 days and it is no longer required, although it's a bit of a gray area, it's no longer required that if you just stay at somebody else's house or at a hotel for a day or two that you have to file a new TM30 and all of that good stuff. No that requirement is effectively gone although there are kind of catch 22s you can get into with Immigration if you have prolonged different addresses, we have seen that before. If you get into one of those, it is probably not a bad idea to contact a legal professional, gain some insight and guidance into how best to proceed.