Reader question: In violation if you do not have a permanent address in Thailand and you go on holiday?
Dear readers,
Suppose you have been deregistered from the Netherlands and you have been living or staying in Thailand for years with a valid Retirement visa, and you go on holiday to Europe for a few months, but during those months you have canceled the rent of your hotel room, are you in violation? ?
Are you obliged to have an address in Thailand during your holiday in Europe? In fact, during those months you are a wanderer without a PERMANENT place to live or stay. Is that a violation? If so, from the laws of which country?
It is only useful not to have double housing costs during your holiday of, for example, 5 months. But suppose you are in some European country and you are ever asked for your address by the police, is it sufficient to give the address of the hotel or camping site where you are temporarily staying? Is that accepted?
Do you have to notify the SVB or the Tax and Customs Administration of your wandering?
I would like the opinion of the readers. Preferably the facts!
Regards,
Fact tester
I have to get a visa again in November at the consulate in Amsterdam,
So you also have to download an application form and fill it in.
Here you will also be asked for your address in Thailand, I always just fill in the address of my apartment.
Never had any problems with it
even though I might have decided to go somewhere else to sleep..
So it seems to me, if you are asked for your address here, just give the address,
where you are most of the year. So your house/apartment/hotel/condo in Thailand.
So that shouldn't cause any problems, right?
Hans says.
Hi Ron the question is, if you are unsubscribed and you go away for a few months.
You are not unsubscribed.
Hans
If you stay within the period of your retirement visa, it will probably not be a problem and will provide an entry endorsement for Thailand in your passport. (single or multi)
Is there a postal address available for e.g. proof of life from the SVB, if necessary. a tax notice etc
The fact is that I don't know, but you can rent a cubicle somewhere for a few thousand Baht a month to get rid of your worries.
The constitution in the Netherlands stipulates that you may be out of the Netherlands for a maximum of 8 months. If you have been out of the Netherlands longer, they can deregister you based on this, with all the consequences for yourself. Think especially about your health insurance.
You must stay in Thailand for at least 6 months for your rights as a resident, but also for possible taxation. So if you are in Thailand for less than 6 months, you are not a resident of Thailand for tax purposes. Has nothing to do with your retirement visa, which is valid for 1 year provided you have a re-entry or multi-entry.
So if you are in Thailand for less than 6 months and have no home address and also less than 8 months in the Netherlands, then you are actually stateless.
Suppose there is something and you have reported in the Netherlands that you are moving to Thailand, then the foreign affairs or tax authorities in the Netherlands can request your address through the immigration office in Thailand and visit you. So if you are not there at the address you have given at immigration, they will receive the message in the Netherlands that you no longer live in Thailand, especially if you have been gone for some time, they will ask that at the hotel or people in the neighbourhood. Then they look at your passport data and check whether you left via the airport and where or by land. Everything is registered, even if you leave the country and your next country is also known, but of course not where or which address in that country. That is all passed on. After that, Foreign Affairs will try to find you in that country and inform embassies. Then you are stateless.
There is a lot in the constitution, but after how many months stay abroad that has consequences you will not find there.
This is regulated in the BRP Act (Basic Registration Registration of Persons) and further elaborated in the BRP Decree.
If you cannot be found, this does not mean that you will become stateless, you will simply retain your Dutch nationality. See the Kingdom Act (ie the law applies throughout the Kingdom) on Dutch nationality.
I am curious what rights as a resident I will get after 6 months of residence in Thailand. Then again I don't know.
No problem, even with your visa you are still not a resident in Thailand so you don't have to worry about that.
But there are other things mentioned like your living proof etc. where do they go and can someone take them and keep them for you?