why would answering "I work online" be an answer to that question in the first place?

I will never understand why people are so averse to simply getting a simple tourist visa when they want to visit thailand as a tourist! All this bobbing and weaving all to be able to say I don't need a visa is incredible

why not just get yourself a single entry tourist visa and make your life a lot simpler.

perhaps the two governments share sex offender information

@Darren *******

right! there are enough ways to go wrong without deliberately creating others

@Darren *******

Just because some ignorant low level doesnt know its not needed doesnt mean its not needed by someone that I might run into down the road. So, in spite of his opinion, I say it IS needed and he is gonna fill it out or i'll just go to the police station to do it

@Darren *******

I just get a kick outta the guys that refuse to do the TM 30 because their local office hasn't been enforcing it up to now. It's almost as if they get a feeling of power by refusing to do what they know is required. Perhaps a passive aggressive way of getting back at the Thai system that they feel deliberately makes their life difficult?? lol

@Darren *******

not gray to me or the ministry of immigration and thats all that concerns me as i'm covered no matter what happens

@Darren *******

so tell them what you need signed. thats what i do. they sign it, give me the bottom receipt portion and i'm good to go. what do i care if they dont understand what its for?

@Darren *******

its clear they want me to register when i enter the country, so i do.Thailand Immigration Act 2522 Section 37:

"An alien having received a temporary entry permit into the Kingdom must comply with the following:

...3. Shall notify the police official of the local police station where such alien resides, within twenty–four hours from the time of arrival. In the case of change in residence in which new residence is not located the same area with the former police stations, such alien must notify the police official of the police station for that area within twenty-four hours from the time of arrival.

4. If the alien travels to any province and will stay there longer than twenty-four hours, such alien must notify the police official of the police station for that area within forty-eight hours from the time of arrival...."

Form TM. 30 deals with number 3, which Chiang Mai Immigration began enforcing more strictly around late September 2016

Form number TM.28 (“FORM FOR ALIENS TO NOTIFY THEIR CHANGE OF ADDRESS

OR THEIR STAY IN THE PROVINCE FOR OVER 24 HOURS”)