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Home » Reader question » Reader question: Police home visits to foreigners who have lived in Thailand for a long time
Reader question: Police home visits to foreigners who have lived in Thailand for a long time
Dear readers,
Today I read on the internet that the police here in Pattaya have made home visits to farang who have lived here for a long time, checking their address and identity. They haven't visited me yet.
Now my question, when I go to emigration in Jomtien for my 90 days stamp, they don't even check my pass or address. Paper 90 days out, new in, they do notify me when my visa expires, they also write it on my 90 days paper which they staple to the back of my passport and 5 minutes later I am outside.
Do I now have to go to immigration with proof of the rental contract from the landlady and apply for a “proof of residence” there? To be so sure during home visits from the police, and to be sure at immigration?
Anyway thanks for the effort, still have two weeks before my 90 day stamp expires.
Regards,
Rudy.
The TM30 is mandatory so if you don't have it you could arrange that. You can download the form from the Immigration site and then you and the homeowner (which could be your spouse) fill it out and have it stamped on Immigration. The strip then goes into your passport. As far as home visits are concerned, every now and then it seems that people have nothing to do and they just go for coffee…..
Dear Rudy. These home visits by the police have nothing to do with immigration and therefore not with your 90-day report. The police and the officials of the amphur have been instructed to map the file of foreigners in their municipality. But this is Thailand and some municipalities do it and some don't. Of course the questions are not the same either. They did ask me if I had a yellow house book, but when I answered that you know, they didn't have to see it. I think it's always safer to have your landlord fill out a TM-30.
We all find it very annoying that bureaucracy, but in the end it is about the safety of us people. Years ago you could easily keep yourself covered with an overstay of a few years. Now people want certainty who is all in Thailand, hence those checks, nothing wrong with that I think.
Home visits are done but by special people from immigration. I have lived in Thailand for 8 years, never had visitors, but an acquaintance from America, for whom I witnessed at Immigration, received a visit the same week, to check. Probably also how you come across at immigration. Just the matter of drawing a map of the route to your house. Probably a trick question.
The provinces of Buriram and Surin must go to the immigration in Kap Choeng for their year 'retirement extension of stay' or for the 90-day notification.
There, in January 2016, with the new application for the year 'retirement extension of stay', I received a stamp 'application of stay is under consideration' in my passport and the announcement to come back in a month for the 'retirement extension of stay' stamp , in that month I received a home visit from two immigration employees, who checked the address I provided, the person in whose name the house is registered, with the blue book, plus two Thai witnesses, with ID, had to be present.
All data was entered into their PC, the owner plus witnesses had to sign a form, then all together, in front of the house, on the photo and the gentlemen went again.
This check has been done for a year at almost all expats living in these provinces, so almost every expat here has been checked here.
Next time everything will be back to normal for me in January 2017 without a home visit and another advantage is that an immigration office will be opened in Buriram city for the province of Buriram next Monday, October 3, which saves me about 250 km of driving and for some other expats much more.
If you adhere to the rules regarding your stay in Thailand and ensure that your required documents or forms are completed correctly, you really do not have to fear a home visit.
I think it's fine that they do it because there is so much scum around and they just have to leave the country.
They can come to me, I have nothing to hide
Is that 90-day stamp going soon in Jomtien. I'm jealous; in Bangkok and Chiangmai it takes hours before it's your turn and even then everything is subjected to a serious examination, so that after handing out that piece of paper you have the feeling that you have passed an exam.
Recently, an extra form has to be completed in Chiangmai with all kinds of information about your home situation in the country of origin, such as the name of your parents, address and telephone number of yourself there and also of a confidential adviser, etc., etc.
Can you imagine how great the relief is when it comes to the presentation of my retirement annual visa.
Dear Nick.
Two weeks ago I received the same form in Chiang Mai. I only entered my address and tel no and after a short token was processed without saying a word.
indeed, acquiring an extension retirement visa in Pattaya is done at immigration in soi 5
when you have all the necessary documents very fast and the helpfulness to do so
check very large .
With regard to the extra form sheet 1: here you only have to fill in your address details in Thailand and possibly the name and address of the person who can be called in an emergency here in Thailand
sign this
page 2: Your address details and check that you have no notices for immigration
sign voila done
Other questions about which websites and bank account are not applicable
So customer-friendly immigration here in Pattaya
2 weeks ago I received a letter from the ampur of Hang-Dong asking if I wanted to come for an I card. Well, I already had his card, but I went anyway, it turned out that there were even more exspats there on that Saturday. So I think they all got one I card, it's free, I think it's a good idea from the Ampur .
sorry is still early must be ID CARD