What is a Thailand 90-Day Report?

What are the Required Documents for a Thailand 90-Day Report?

When reporting your residence address in Thailand, you must have some necessary papers with you:

• A passport.
• Copies of your passport pages:
  • Personal details page
  • Your valid Thai visa
  • The most recent entry stamp
  • The most recent Thai visa extension
• A completed and signed TM.47 form for a 90-Day report notification
• A front and back copy of your arrival/departure card (known as TM.6)
• A copy of your most recent 90-day slip
• Please include a self-addressed envelope and a 10 Thai Baht postage stamp if applying via registered mail.

How Can You Apply the Thai 90-Day Report?

The 90-Day Report can be submitted in one of four ways:

• You can accomplish the following at a local Thai immigration office:
  • In person
  • Using registered mail
  • Via a duly authorized individual
• Online, using the Thai immigration department’s online portal.

Submitting the Thai 90-Day Report to an Immigration Office

At an immigration office, you may file your stay report up to 15 days before or 7 days after its due date. However, the report needs to be submitted at least 15 days before the application date if the application is through the mail.

Submitting the Thai 90-day report in-person

The safest and easiest method is to submit the 90-Day Report in person. First, you must go to your local immigration office and report your address. Going to a government office in most areas will entail some waiting.

So, before the deadline for your 90-Day Report, you must:

• Collect the necessary paperwork.
• Go to an immigration office.
• Wait your turn in line. Given how many people are in line, this might take a few minutes to a few hours.
• Please submit the report.
• Just wait a bit longer.
• You will be sent your 90-Day Report slip. This will tell you when your next reporting period is. Save it if you need to present it when you record your stay the next time.

Submitting the Thai 90-day report using registered mail

If you wish to avoid the lines or cannot go in person, you can record your stay by registered mail. In this instance, you must:

• Put the necessary documents in an envelope.
• Put a self-addressed envelope and a postage stamp of 10 Thai Baht. An immigration officer will use this to send your 90-Day Report slip back, marking the next time you must report.
• Send them to your local immigration office at least 15 days before your deadline.

Submitting the Thai 90-day report via a duly authorized individual

Your 90-Day Report may be done on your behalf by someone else if you are unable to do it yourself. For example, if you are married, you can ask your spouse or a family member for help. You can also request a law or visa agency.

How to Submit the 90-Day Reporting in Thailand Online?

The Thai government created an internet server to execute 90-day reporting in 2015, which may be accessed here. If you report the 90-day stay online, you must do it 15 to 7 workdays before the deadline. If you have fewer than 7 days working before or after the reporting deadline, you must report your stay in person to the local immigration office. You cannot make an online report.

The application is processed through the online 90-Day Report system in around seven business days. You can utilize the program to check the status throughout this period.

When the application is granted, you may print the approval receipt and present it to any officials if necessary.

The receipt will also indicate once your following 90-day report is due.

Note: Please keep in mind that, while the online system for 90-Day Reports is intended to function, many expatriates in Thailand say that it frequently does not operate. Most of them still choose to endure the long lines and register their stay in person at an immigration office instead of using the online option.

90-Day Report Application

The Thai government said in October 2019 that an app named “OSS Foreigner” would be available shortly to manage the 90-Day Report and other types of immigration reporting. The app is designed to make reporting your stay every 90 days simpler, faster, and less stressful. However, for the time being, you can only record your stay via one of the ways outlined above.

Can You Submit a 90-Day Report at an Airport?

An international airport in Thailand cannot be reported as a place of stay. Although you may obtain a Thailand re-entry permit at an airport, the immigration department is solely responsible for the 90-Day Report.

What Can Happen If You Don’t Submit Your 90-Day Report?

If you do not submit your 90-Day Report by the deadline, you have seven days after that to do so. However, failure to do so within this deadline will result in a fine of around 2,000 Thai Baht (approximately $65 / €60).

If you were detained within this time frame and were unable to disclose your stay, you will be fined 5,000 Thai Baht.

Let’s Sum Up

As a foreign national, you must disclose your current living place address to the immigration department every 90 days as long as you are in Thailand. Even if your residence address does not change, you are obligated to do it.

There are four ways to submit your 90-day report: In person, with a registered mail, through an authorized individual, or online. In addition, since 2019, the Thai government has also added the option of submitting your report through a specific application.

Have you struggled with reporting your 90-day stay in Thailand? What did you do? Please share your past experience with us in the comment section.