90-day reporting (TM.47): in person, by post and online

Who must report and when

The rule covers every foreigner with temporary permission to stay who is in Thailand for more than 90 days.¹ It is section 37(5) of the Immigration Act B.E. 2522 (1979).²

• Your first report is due when you have been in Thailand for 90 days. After that, report every 90 days.²
• You can report from 15 days before to 7 days after your due date.¹
• If you leave Thailand, the count starts again. Your next report is due 90 days after your last entry.¹
• The 90-day report is not an extension of stay.¹

Choose how to report

Online

Fill in the form on the immigration website. The result comes by email in about 3 days.⁴

The online system rejects a report automatically when you file for the first time, or after you change to a new passport.⁵ The Bureau does not say if “the first time” means your first report ever, or your first report after each entry. If you have left Thailand since your last report, report in person or through an agent. See what readers report.

You need an email address.¹

1. Go to tm47.immigration.go.th. Register with your email address, first name, last name and phone number. The system emails you a password.¹
2. Log in and choose “New APPLICATION (TM.47)”. Fill in the form and submit it. You can do this from 15 days before your due date.¹
3. Your report shows as “Pending”. An officer checks it and emails you the result within 3 working days.¹
4. The system emails you 15 days before your next due date.¹

After you change to a new passport, report once in person, or send another person, with the new passport. You can report online again from the next 90-day report.¹

The Immigration Bureau’s THIM app does not take 90-day reports yet. The Bureau lists the 90-day report as a service it plans to add.⁶

In person

Take your documents to your immigration office.¹ The Bureau gives no time estimate. See what readers report.

The Bureau’s list still names the paper TM.6 card.¹ Since 1 May 2025 you can also file the TM.6 online, as the Thailand Digital Arrival Card (TDAC), and a TDAC counts as a filed TM.6.⁷ If you have no paper card, ask your office what to bring instead.

Outside Bangkok, go to the immigration checkpoint (ด่านตรวจคนเข้าเมือง, immigration office) for the area where you live. In Bangkok, go to the residence notification counter.¹

If you work for a company with registered capital of at least 30 million baht, you can go to the Visa and Work Permit Service Centre instead.¹

Agent or another person

Another person can take your documents to the office for you, so you do not go.¹ This is how visa agents file 90-day reports. For what agents charge, see agents. Give them the same documents as for in person. Sign the TM.47 yourself: the Bangkok office does not accept a form that another person signed.⁴

By post

Send your documents by registered post, 15 days before your due date.¹ Your slip comes back in about 30 days.⁴

1. Put these in one envelope:

   • A copy of your passport photo page, your last entry stamp and your latest permission to stay.¹
   • A copy of both sides of your TM.6 card.¹
   • The receipt from your last 90-day report, if you have reported before.¹
   • Form TM.47, filled in and signed by you.⁴
   • An envelope addressed to you, with a 15-baht stamp on it. Immigration uses it to send you the bottom part of the TM.47, which is your next appointment slip, and a blank TM.47 for next time.¹

2. Send it by registered post to the immigration office for the area where you live, 15 days before the due date on your appointment slip.¹ In Bangkok, write this address on the envelope:

   90 Days Report Section
   Immigration Division 1, Immigration Bureau
   Chalermprakiat Government Complex, B Building
   120 Moo 3, Chaengwattana Rd., Soi 7
   Toongsonghong, Laksi
   Bangkok 10210¹

3. Keep the post office receipt until your slip comes back.⁴ In Bangkok this takes about 30 days.⁴

Fees and late fines

• The Bureau’s 90-day page lists no fee for the report itself.¹
• If you report late, or do not report, you must go to immigration in person and pay a 2,000-baht fine.¹ If you are arrested, the fine is 5,000 baht.¹
• The law sets the maximum: a fine of up to 5,000 baht, plus up to 200 baht a day until you report.²

What people report

How long it takes

• At Chaeng Watthana in Bangkok, one reader came without an appointment, got queue number 304 and spent 4 hours at the office, including the lunch break. The report itself took a few minutes.⁸
• Readers with an appointment at Chaeng Watthana say they were in and out in about 5 minutes.⁹
• At smaller offices, readers report a few minutes: under 5 minutes in Roi Et, and 2 to 3 minutes at the Phuket town drive-through.¹⁰¹¹
• Online, some readers get approval the next day. Others wait more than a week, or see “Pending” for over a month.¹⁰
• Some readers say the online system rejected their report with no reason given.¹²

Online after a trip abroad

• A reader who left and came back on a re-entry permit had their online report rejected. The rejection said: “For first-time requests of a 90-day notification in each country visit, in-person presentation at the immigration office is required.”¹³
• Readers on a DTV who leave every 180 days say the same: the first report after each new entry must be in person.¹⁴

Agents

• Bumrungrad hospital’s Business Center lists its 90-day service at 650 baht per passport. It takes only visas from Immigration Division 1 in Bangkok, and its staff go to the office on Mondays and Fridays.¹⁵
• Readers quote other agents at about 600 baht.¹²
• One reader who reported by post never got the slip back.¹²