Thailand Immigration Deadlines: TM30, 90-Day Reports and Re-Entry

You can have a valid Thai visa and still miss an important deadline. The visa's expiry, your permission to stay, a 90-day report and your accommodation notification do different jobs. A trip abroad adds another check: whether leaving will cancel the permission you want to keep.

Keep those tasks on separate lines in your calendar. It is a small habit that helps more than saving another screenshot headed “new visa rules”. The government's September 2026 changes to visitor entry schemes make old assumptions especially unhelpful. This guide concerns paperwork after arrival; our entry-rules guide covers the broader changes.

Start with the permission actually granted

Open your passport and identify the stamp or endorsement that states how long you are allowed to stay. Save a clear private copy. If the date is unclear or appears wrong, ask Immigration to explain or correct it promptly rather than choosing the date you prefer.

A visa's validity concerns its use for entry under its conditions. It is not necessarily the date on which your current stay ends. Likewise, a report receipt does not add extra days to your stay. If you are planning an extension, use our extension and departure guide and confirm the requirements for your category with the responsible office.

Put the permission-to-stay deadline in your calendar, with a preparation reminder well before it. A personal reminder is not a statutory grace period. If you have left the matter late, contact the office while your permission is still valid; do not assume an appointment or online submission automatically keeps you lawful.

Give each task its own row

Task	What it concerns	What it does not do
Permission to stay / extension	The period you may remain under the approved conditions	A calendar reminder or pending request is not approval.
90-day report, TM.47	Residence reporting during a qualifying continuous stay	It does not extend your stay.
Accommodation report, TM.30	The host's notification of a foreign guest's residence	It is not your TM.47 report or visa extension.
Re-entry permit, where needed	Preserving an existing temporary permission when leaving	It does not create a longer stay.

Keep the current receipt or endorsement beside each calendar entry. Record where it was issued and which passport and address it uses. This makes a later query much easier to explain without sending someone your entire document folder.

90-day reporting: submission and approval are different

The Immigration Bureau's public reporting handbook describes the notification window of 15 days before to seven days after the due date. Do not use that as an online grace-period promise. The government's online-service announcement says the online report can be made 15 days in advance.

Use the current official TM.47 portal and read its instructions before submitting. Start while there is time to resolve a problem. Check the status and save the approved notification receipt and next due date; an application number or “pending” screen is not the same thing.

The portal's current status guide separates pending, approved and rejected applications. If a request is rejected or still unresolved as the deadline approaches, contact the responsible Immigration office. Do not keep submitting duplicates in the hope that one will approve itself. Keep the submission reference and the message so you can show what happened.

After an international departure and new arrival, confirm the new reporting timeline. The Immigration Bureau's public handbook counts the next reporting period from the latest arrival. If you have a new passport, changed address or category-specific reporting arrangement, ask what must be updated. Do not assume an old reminder or someone else's online experience applies to you.

TM.30: ask the host for confirmation

The government's explanation of section 38 says the housemaster, owner, possessor or hotel manager accommodating a foreigner must notify Immigration within 24 hours of arrival. For a rental, discuss who will make the notification before you move in and ask for confirmation afterward.

Give the host the necessary details securely. Do not post passport photographs into a public community group to ask whether a form looks right. If you move, travel away and return, or use more than one address, ask the host and your office how the current rules apply rather than imposing a universal repeat-filing rule from an old blog.

Your address evidence should tell one consistent story. Check the spelling, unit number and relevant dates across the lease, host confirmation and any reporting application. Correct a mismatch with the responsible party rather than editing a receipt yourself.

Before leaving Thailand, check what you want to preserve

If you are living on a temporary extension, ask whether you need a re-entry permit before departure. A valid multiple-entry visa and an extended permission to stay are not the same arrangement. The answer depends on your actual immigration basis.

Immigration's re-entry handbook describes applying in person using TM.8 and the valid passport. The official fee schedule lists 1,000 baht for a single re-entry permit and 3,800 baht for multiple entries within the remaining admission period. These are official fees, not an agent's package quote.

Arrange it before the travel day where practical. Check the endorsement, passport details and validity before leaving the counter. A re-entry permit preserves the relevant existing period; it does not let you return after that permission has expired. Do not build a flight itinerary around an assumed airport service without confirming its location and availability.

A calendar you can actually maintain

Use four fields: task, official deadline, preparation date and evidence saved. Add a fifth for travel that could change the timeline. After any new stamp or approval, update the calendar from that document instead of adding a fixed number of days to an old entry.

Keep your passport copies and receipts accessible offline in a restricted folder. Our document-storage guide explains the practical checks. Once a month, look ahead at travel, reporting and renewal dates together. You are looking for a clash, not just the next reminder.

Common questions

Does a 90-day report extend my permission to stay?

No. Residence reporting and permission to stay are separate. Follow the deadline on your current immigration permission and any approved extension, not the date on a reporting reminder.

Is a pending online TM.47 application an approved report?

No. Check the application's status and save the approved receipt. If it is rejected or unresolved near the deadline, contact the responsible Immigration office rather than assuming submission is approval.

Does a re-entry permit give me a new year in Thailand?

No. It concerns preserving the relevant existing permission when you leave and return. Its validity must fit that remaining permission; it is not a new extension of stay.

Checked on 6 October 2026. General guidance for temporary residents; confirm category-specific requirements with Immigration. It is not personalised immigration advice.