TM30 address notification

Make sure your landlord or hotel has filed your TM30, and get proof of it

Who this is for

• This applies to you no matter what visa you're on, if you're staying in Thailand temporarily. But the legal duty is your landlord's, owner's or hotel manager's. Not yours.

  Source: Immigration Bureau: TM30 notification of residence (Immigration Act B.E. 2522 s.38) (Official), checked 25 September 2026

• Chiang Mai requires a TM30 on file before your 90-day report. It's also a listed document for DTV and marriage extensions, and the residence letter.

  Source: User field visit, Chiang Mai (Founder field report), checked 24 September 2026

When

• Your landlord has 24 hours from when you take up residence to file it.

  Source: Immigration Bureau: TM30 notification of residence (Official), checked 25 September 2026

• This comes up when you arrive in Thailand, move address, or before any 90-day report, extension or residence-letter visit.

  Unverified Derived from the legal deadline, checked 25 September 2026

• It's not confirmed yet whether a new TM30 is needed after every trip abroad. Office practice varies.

  Unverified Not confirmed, checked 25 September 2026

• Check the “Stay Until” date on an online TM30. Once it's passed, it's effectively stale for your visit.

  Source: Chiang Mai Immigration form tool (linked from chiangmai.immigration.go.th) (Linked tool), checked 26 September 2026

Ways to do it

• Landlord files in person at the local immigration office.

  Source: Immigration Bureau: TM30 notification of residence (Official), checked 25 September 2026

• Landlord files by registered post, with a signed form and a 6.5x9in self-addressed envelope with a 10 THB stamp.

  Source: Immigration Bureau: TM30 notification of residence (Official), checked 25 September 2026

• Landlord files online at tm30.immigration.go.th.

  Source: Immigration Bureau: TM30 notification of residence (Official), checked 25 September 2026

Steps

1. Ask your landlord, hotel or owner to file the TM30done by someone else

   It's done by someone else, at no fee to you. Give them your full name as in your passport, passport number, arrival date and the date you took up residence.

   Source: Immigration Bureau: TM30 notification of residence (Official), checked 25 September 2026

2. Ask your landlord or condo office to check it's on filedone by someone else

   There's no tenant-facing self-service online check. Ask your landlord or condo office to send you the TM30 receipt as a PDF. That's what you keep and show.

   Source: Founder field report, Chiang Mai (Founder field report), checked 26 September 2026

3. Check the receipt

   Your name and passport number are correct, the address matches where you live, and (for an online filing) the “Stay Until” date covers your planned visits.

   Source: Founder field report, Chiang Mai, and ThaiEmbassy.com (private site) (Corroborated), checked 26 September 2026

4. Save it to your documents

   Log it as your TM30 receipt, with its issue date and stay-until date.

   Unverified No primary source yet, checked 25 September 2026

Documents

• TM30 notification-of-residence receipt

  Copy of the lower part of TM.30, or the online receipt showing name, passport no., address and stay-until date.

  Source: Immigration Bureau: TM30 notification of residence (Official), checked 25 September 2026

• Rental or lease agreement If applicable

  Needed if the online TM30 has no check-out date.

  Source: Chiang Mai Immigration form tool (linked from chiangmai.immigration.go.th) (Linked tool), checked 26 September 2026

Fees

• Filing fee: No fee

  Source: Immigration Bureau: TM30 notification of residence (Official), checked 25 September 2026

Common problems

• The landlord never files. The biggest external risk, outside the app's control.

  Source: User field visit, Chiang Mai (Founder field report), checked 24 September 2026

• Name or passport-number typos, copied from what the guest wrote rather than the passport.

  Source: Immigration Bureau: TM30 notification of residence (Official), checked 25 September 2026

• A stale online TM30 whose stay-until date has passed.

  Source: Chiang Mai Immigration form tool (linked from chiangmai.immigration.go.th) (Linked tool), checked 26 September 2026

• A new passport: whether the TM30 needs re-filing on the new number isn't confirmed yet.

  Unverified Not confirmed, checked 25 September 2026

• Moved house without a new TM30.

  Unverified Derived from the legal basis, checked 25 September 2026