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The published legal duty
The Immigration Bureau's official English and Thai TM30 manuals, reopened on 1 August 2026, quote section 38 of the Immigration Act. They state that the house owner, head of household, landlord or hotel manager accommodating a foreign national who is legally in Thailand must notify the local authority within 24 hours from arrival at the accommodation.
The official sources do not say that every missing TM30 automatically causes an extension, online TM.47 report or bank process to fail. Those outcome claims were too categorical and have been demoted. The responsible Immigration office decides what evidence it needs for the service in question.
Step 1 — send the official portal and request proof
Send the landlord the Immigration Bureau's official English TM30 portal manual or Thai manual. Ask the legally responsible notifier to submit accurate information and provide the exported notification evidence.
The official portal manual checked 1 August 2026 describes registration, adding the accommodation address, notifying an individual or importing multiple records, searching the record and exporting evidence. It does not publish a 5-minute completion promise, a tenant success rate or a commercial filing fee.
Step 2 — identify who is legally responsible
A condo juristic office may help only if it is the owner, manager, authorized agent or otherwise the responsible notifier for that accommodation. The Immigration Bureau manual does not make every juristic office responsible for every privately rented unit. Ask the owner and building management to confirm their roles in writing.
Step 3 — contact the responsible Immigration office
If the responsible person refuses, preserve the lease, messages and accurate address evidence and ask Chonburi Immigration how it wants the situation handled. The official portal publishes technical help, but it does not authorize a tenant to create a false owner or landlord account. Do not submit an invented address, false role or altered evidence.
Lease clause template
A prospective tenant can request a clause requiring the legally responsible party to comply with section 38 and provide proof of notification. The Immigration Bureau does not publish or approve a private lease clause, so any contract wording should match the actual parties and property arrangement.
If the address or record is wrong
The official manual checked 1 August 2026 lets an authorized account search notified accommodation and export evidence. Use the real check-in and accommodation details. The earlier claim that an old record automatically blocks other Immigration services could not be confirmed in the portal manual.
New arrival at the accommodation
The statutory wording quoted by the Immigration Bureau ties the deadline to the foreign national's arrival at the accommodation. Whether a particular return to the same address needs a new notification can depend on current Immigration practice and the facts of the stay; confirm the current instruction with Chonburi Immigration rather than relying on the page's former blanket re-entry statement.
Hotels and short-term rentals
Section 38, as quoted by the Immigration Bureau and checked 1 August 2026, includes hotel managers and does not publish a minimum stay length. The legal duty belongs to the responsible accommodation party; platform branding does not replace it.
Official sources reopened
Checked 1 August 2026: Immigration Bureau TM30 manual (English) · Immigration Bureau TM30 manual (Thai) · official notification and export workflow (English) · official portal FAQ (Thai) · Immigration Act text (Thai).
Last checked 1 August 2026. This page summarizes published rules and uncertainty; it is not legal advice.