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  1. Went to IO. Paid the fine. In and out in 10 minutes. New date, Christmas eve. Should be easy to remember, but just in case, I will set up several reminders using different media. Hopefully the redundancy will help prevent this from happening again. Will set the reminders for the earliest possible day to give myself leeway if anything comes up that might delay me. I need to find some way of incorporating this rhythm into my life since I might be doing this every 90 days until I die.
  2. Ok, glad I checked back in at the forum. Will show up in person today, pay the likely fine, and report online in the future. Thank you to everyone who kept commenting despite the fact that I appeared to sign off.
  3. Thank you for the advice, everyone. This is the first of three 90 day reports for this extension. Since the general consensus is that this is not a big deal, I have decided to report online today. I will report online again the next two times as well and then see if they catch me when I do my next extension. Maybe I will intentionally file on the 5th or 6th day for the next two, so that this 9 day slip is less obvious/glaring. I appreciate everyone taking the time to respond!
  4. I'm on a Non- O retirement visa extension. As the title says, I missed my report date. 9 days overdue. First time this has happened. Will go into the office today to report. What will be the likely response from the immigration officer. I assume there is a fine. How much money do I need to bring? What's a realistic worse case scenario? Thanks in advance...
  5. This is something I have considered doing also. Stay on the retirement visa in Thailand with longer stays out of country (90 days Malaysia with a single Thailand reentry permit?) in which I am not paying rent in Thailand. So what did you do to get around it?
  6. I made my comments based on information from my landlord. Her family runs a group of hotels in town with many long term residents. She said she didn't think a cancellation clause was legal, but she would ask her lawyer about it. Good to know there are contracts with release clauses out there. Maybe I can get one drawn up and signed before my visa extension deadline. Not the perfect solution, considering I would lose the deposit, but better than last minute running around looking for a new room in a new province. Thanks.
  7. In my country, immigrants run amok. Just cross the border, legally or illegally, and sign a document promising to appear in court some time in the future. My country will even put immigrants on a bus or plane to their desired location of disappearance. Define "permanent address". As others have mentioned, a 90 day report serves as my declaration of location. To my knowledge, there is no requirement that two consecutive 90 day reports be from the same location.
  8. Advice is not impossible. Two easy questions: 1 year rental contract requirement "normal"? Is there an appeals process? Please don't take my comment the wrong way. I appreciate the "indirect" advice I've been given and will act accordingly. Thanks, sincerely...
  9. I am not aware of the things you tell me I "should already know" because I do not, (unlike you, apparently) spend my free time reading visa forums. As the OP, I set the topic. The majority of the posts have been about retaliation from immigration officers, not direct answers to my questions. So, yes, this thread has gotten off topic.
  10. As is often the case with this forum, posts have gotten way off topic, very fast... What I'm gathering is that if I move quickly, I'm unlikely to face the same 1 year rental contract requirement elsewhere. Also, there is no appeals process, otherwise someone would have mentioned it by now.
  11. Seriously? The point of not disclosing is to avoid potential retaliation for the disclosure. Saving face, etc. Don't you think immigration officers read this forum? It would not be difficult to determine who I am if they know the office.
  12. A year ago, I received my first retirement visa extension in Hua Hin based, in part, on a 3 month rental contract. I extended my rental contract for an additional 3 months in Hua Hin once, then I moved to my current province. I appropriately updated my address in my new province based on a 3 month rental contract. I extended my three month rental contract once in the new province and here we are, it's time to renew my annual retirement visa extension. My current landlord is unfamiliar with the visa renewal process, so I took the paperwork to Immigration to verify everything is correct before I went and gathered all the bank account documents. I was happy when they told me that the house registration and ID card were correct (that was my primary concern), but then they told me they could not extend my retirement visa based on a 3 month rental contract (my third, 3 month contract in the new province). They require that I have a 1 year rental contract. I told them that it was my plan, in retirement, to travel around Thailand, changing locations every 3, 6 or 9 months based on how much or little I liked my current location. My current location is becoming a bit boring, so I thought I'd extend my rental contract for 3 months one last time and then move on to some place new. They told me my rental contract has to be for one year and that I could just cancel the rental contract if I wanted to leave early. I pointed out that the rental contract is between me and the property owner. Whether I can cancel my current rental contract was not up to immigration, but would be the landlord's option to approve or decline. If they decline, I am on the hook for a year's worth of rent. There is no early cancellation provision in my rental agreement. I am told an early cancellation provision in rental contracts is not common in Thailand. When I asked why I was able to extend my retirement visa in Hua Hin based on a 3 month rental contract, but not at my current province, I was smiled at and told that if I do not like their rules, I was free to pursue my retirement visa extension elsewhere. I do not want to disclose which immigration office is holding me to this standard. I am wondering if other people are experiencing this. Do I have any recourse other than quickly changing provinces within the next two weeks? Will I run into the same 1 year rental contract requirement wherever I end up? Was my first and only other retirement extension process in Hua Hin just a fluke? Though I don't think it would be to my advantage to make a big official stink about this, still I'm wondering if there is an official complaint or appeals process that would raise the issue to a higher than provincial level authority. Any advice/insight anyone can provide would be greatly appreciated. My visa extension deadline is rapidly approaching...
  13. Surely so. Now you've seen it. First time for everything... Snippet from Thai Airways page. Somewhat limited in what I show because I don't want to reveal my name or ticket info.
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