90-Day Report Thailand: File Online, in Person or by Post

If you stay in Thailand more than 90 days in a row, you must tell immigration where you live every 90 days, on form TM.47 (ตม.47). The report is free. You can file it online at tm47.immigration.go.th, in person at Chiang Mai Immigration on Airport Road or at Central Festival, by registered post, or through someone you authorise. A late report costs ฿2,000, and every trip abroad restarts the count. In Thai it is รายงานตัว 90 วัน, reporting yourself every 90 days. It is a separate duty from your landlord's TM30, and it does not extend your stay.

Who must report#

Every foreigner on a temporary stay who stays in Thailand more than 90 days without leaving: on a DTV, any retirement visa, a marriage or family visa, a work visa or a student visa, and children too, at any age. The duty is section 37(5) of the Immigration Act of 1979, unchanged since, and it is yours, not your landlord's or your employer's. Long-Term Resident visa holders report once a year instead.

The Act's Thai text covers "คนต่างด้าวซึ่งได้รับอนุญาตให้อยู่ในราชอาณาจักรเป็นการชั่วคราว", a foreigner permitted to stay temporarily, and the report falls due at "เกินเก้าสิบวัน", more than ninety days. The 2020 police regulation that sets out how to report relieves 22 kinds of stay, retirees and students among them, of two other police notices, never of this one.

Short visits no longer reach day 90. Since 15 September 2026 visitors from 60 countries and territories enter without a visa for 30 days, and the only extension for tourism adds 30 more, once. The report now concerns people on a real long-stay visa or extension: the retirees, families, DTV holders and workers who rent in Chiang Mai.

When it is due#

Your first report is due 90 days after the date you entered Thailand: the entry date plus 90 days. After that, follow the date immigration prints on your receipt. You can report from 15 days before that date. Online, file no later than 7 days before it; at the counter you have until 7 days after it.

Official sources differ on the online deadline: the Immigration Bureau's 2023 order in the Royal Gazette says 7 days before the due date, and the online system's 2026 manual says the due date itself. Filing at least 7 days before meets both and leaves time for the officer's approval.

An example: enter Thailand on 1 November 2026 and your first report is due on 30 January 2027. Online you can file from 15 to 23 January; at the counter, from 15 January to 6 February. The online system's own manual counts the same way: entered on 13 December 2023, report by 12 March 2024.

Every exit restarts the count, "in every case" in the Immigration Bureau's words, re-entry permit or not. If you leave before your due date, nothing is owed for it, and your next report falls 90 days after your latest entry. The receipt says the rest in capitals: "This is not an extension of stay".

Filing online, step by step#

The only official online service is tm47.immigration.go.th, run by the Immigration Bureau. It is free, open around the clock, and anyone can register with an email address. The result arrives by email within 3 working days, with your receipt and your next due date.

1. Open tm47.immigration.go.th in Chrome or Firefox and choose Apply. Enter your email and your name in English exactly as in your passport, then pass the check that you are human.
2. Open the email "[TM.47] Please verify your email and set your password" within an hour, when its link expires, and set a password of at least 8 characters with a number, a capital, a small letter and a symbol.
3. Sign in, accept the terms and choose New Application. Fill in your passport details, the date you arrived in Thailand, the date your permission to stay ends, and your address down to the tambon.
4. Submit. The status reads Pending Approval, and you can still cancel while it does.
5. Wait for the email. An approved report comes with the receipt and your next due date; you can download both again under Check Status.
6. Fifteen days before your next due date, the Immigration Bureau emails you a reminder.

One account can file for everyone at the same address: the system keeps the address for that purpose, so a parent can report for the children. The form asks for no arrival-card number.

When the system turns a report away#

The manual explains each message. "Visa does not match the 90-day submission requirement" means your case must be filed at the office; the manual does not list which visas. "Incorrect entry date" or "Incorrect expiration date" means the dates you gave put the report outside 75 to 90 days from your entry. Repeated rejections mean the system has detected irregularities: go to the office in person as soon as you can.

After a new passport, make the first report at the office, in person or through someone you authorise; online works again from the next one. No current official text says the first report after arriving in Thailand must be made in person: try online, and if the system refuses it, report at the counter.

The Immigration Bureau's THIM app does not file 90-day reports yet; its launch notice of 25 September 2026 lists them among services planned, with no date. Help for the website: the hotline 1178 or 1111, or resident.helpdesk@police.go.th.

In person in Chiang Mai#

Chiang Mai Immigration takes 90-day reports at both of its counters: the main office at 71 Airport Road, beside the airport, and the branch on the 2nd floor of Central Festival, whose service list puts 90-day reporting first. Neither takes bookings for it, so walk in on a weekday.

The official list has four items: your passport, the TM.47 signed, the receipt from your previous report if you have one, and your TM.6 arrival card if you arrived before May 2025. The paper card was replaced by the digital arrival card (TDAC) on 1 May 2025 and the list was never updated, so bring your TDAC confirmation instead.

A copy of your landlord's TM30 receipt is not on any official list, but a Bangkok university's international office says immigration asks for the slip at 90-day reports, so bring one. Chiang Mai Immigration links a one-page bilingual TM.47 to print: the upper half is your notice, the lower half the receipt the officer fills in and you keep in your passport.

The report is free. The Immigration Bureau's handbook sets 4 minutes per report once the officer has checked your papers; the wait before that is the long part.

Chiang Mai Immigration Office

Both counters, what each one handles, hours and holidays, phone numbers, extensions at ฿1,900 and re-entry permits.

Read the immigration office guide

By post#

You can report by registered post as long as you are not late. Post it 15 days before your due date to Chiang Mai Immigration, 71 Moo 3 Airport Road, Suthep, Mueang Chiang Mai 50200, and keep the registration slip.

1. Copies of your passport's photo page, last entry stamp and latest permission to stay, each signed by you as a true copy.
2. A copy of your TM.6 card, front and back, if you arrived before May 2025.
3. The receipt from your previous report, if you have one.
4. The TM.47, filled in and signed.
5. An envelope addressed to yourself with a ฿15 stamp, for the receipt and a blank TM.47 for next time.

Once the due date has passed, a posted report is no longer accepted: you go in person and pay the fine. Chiang Mai Immigration publishes nothing on how long mailed reports take, so online or at the counter is the surer route.

Through someone else#

Someone else can hand in your report for you, under the 2020 police regulation, and the officer gives them your receipt. The exception is a late report: then you must come yourself, because the fine is settled with you in person.

No official list says what that person must bring beyond your passport, the signed TM.47 and your previous receipt, so call 053 201 755 and press 20 before you send someone. After a new passport, a person you authorise is one of the two official ways to make the first report.

Late or missed: the fines#

A late report costs ฿2,000, paid in person at Chiang Mai Immigration. If you are caught without having reported, the Immigration Bureau's figure is ฿5,000, and the Immigration Act allows up to ฿200 more for each day until you report.

Both amounts are settlement fines set by the Immigration Bureau; the Act itself sets only a ceiling, ฿5,000 plus ฿200 a day. A missed report is not an overstay and does not shorten your permission to stay, but the officer's screen flags a late report, so it stays on record.

TM30, TM.27 and the 90-day report: whose duty is which#

Your landlord files the TM30 when you move in; you file the 90-day report while you stay; and when you move to a new address, you tell immigration yourself, on form TM.27, within 24 hours. The TM.27 is the one most guides leave out.

In law a missing TM30 does not stop your 90-day report: the TM30 is on none of the official 90-day lists, and the two duties sit in different sections of the Act with different fines. In practice offices are reported to ask for the slip, so keep a copy. No type of stay is relieved of the TM.27, and no official text says whether a TM.47 with your new address also counts as one, so file both.

TM30 explained

Who files it, the online steps, the receipt, and what to do when your landlord has not filed.

Read the TM30 guide

Travel, moving house and extensions#

Leaving Thailand is the only event the Immigration Bureau names as restarting the count. A move keeps your due date but can change your office, and an extension changes neither: keep to the date on your last receipt.

• A trip abroad restarts the count from your latest entry, whatever visa or re-entry permit you hold. Someone who leaves at least once every 90 days never files a TM.47.
• A move inside Chiang Mai province keeps you at Chiang Mai Immigration. A move to another province sends your next report to that province's office, on the same date. No official text says the online system takes an address in a new province, so we would make the first report after such a move in person.
• On moving day three filings run side by side: your new landlord's TM30, your own TM.27, and your next 90-day report on its usual date.
• No official text says a retirement, marriage or DTV extension restarts the count. Counting only from your entry, a DTV holder who extends without leaving reports around days 90, 180 and 270 of the stay.
• Long-Term Resident visa holders report once a year on form TM.95, due a year after the visa was issued or after their latest arrival, from 15 days before to 7 days after. The Board of Investment names its Bangkok centre (TIESC); the Immigration Bureau's Order 150/2565 also lets provincial offices under Divisions 3 to 6, Chiang Mai among them, take the report, but no Chiang Mai page confirms it, so ask Chiang Mai Immigration first. A missed report risks a fine of up to ฿5,000 plus ฿200 a day. Your landlord's TM30 still applies.

What may change: the bill at the Senate#

The 90-day report is required by law today. A bill that would let the national police chief decide whether to keep it passed the House of Representatives on 30 September 2026 and is now before the Senate. Nothing has been published in the Royal Gazette, and no start date is set.

The Cabinet approved the amendment of the Immigration Act on 23 June 2026. In its text, the police chief "may" require foreigners staying more than 90 days to report their address where state security, public order or public welfare needs it, by a method and at intervals he sets. It would also drop the tenant's own TM.27, as a duplicate of the landlord's TM30, and keep today's rules in force for up to a year after the new act takes effect.

The House accepted the bill in principle on 8 July and passed it by 403 votes to none on 30 September, according to a news report. The Senate published its explainer on 14 October, and on 20 October the Cabinet listed the bill among those before the Senate. Until an amending act appears in the Royal Gazette, keep reporting every 90 days.

Thailand retirement visa

The three routes from age 50, the ฿800,000 money test, fees by embassy and the yearly extension in Chiang Mai.

Read the retirement visa guide