New immigration app launching ....

With THIM, travellers complete their full profile only once. On future visits, they need to update just a few details, such as the flight number and return date.

The bureau said the process can reduce arrival card completion time to about three minutes.

The app is available now for pilot downloads and uses an electronic know your customer (KYC) process to verify user information against passport details.

Travellers do not need to show a QR code at immigration counters, according to the bureau. Their data syncs directly with the bureau's system, allowing officers to confirm the completed digital form when they scan a physical passport.

The app supports English, Russian, Japanese and Chinese, with plans to expand to 15 languages.

In the future, the bureau wants THIM to become a comprehensive digital platform for all foreigners living in Thailand, featuring appointment booking, electronic extension services, online pre-submission of documents, status change applications and issuance of transaction-related certification documents.

For expats, THIM can support mandatory 90-day reporting and official electronic document requests, reducing visits to provincial immigration offices. Long-term visa holders, including those under Board of Investment or diplomatic status, may be able to access automated airport channels through facial recognition technology that compares real-time mobile photos with identity data stored in passport chips.

 

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The Philippine on-line system works like this as well. Create it in full the first time then just edit your arrival/departure details on any future trips. I have used mine for several years now. Foreigners only register their arrival, locals do it for both ways. 

2 hours ago, biggles said:

The Philippine on-line system works like this as well. Create it in full the first time then just edit your arrival/departure details on any future trips. I have used mine for several years now. Foreigners only register their arrival, locals do it for both ways. 

I have this on my phone already. As you say, just need to add new arrival details etc.

I have just put this app my phone.

Is there anywhere to save your details or does this only happen when you enter details for your first trip?

53 minutes ago, thegrogmonster said:

I have just put this app my phone.

Is there anywhere to save your details or does this only happen when you enter details for your first trip?

I just entered my first trip ( just to see if it worked ... ) for June , it said it will contact me when I need to fill in the health declaration 72 hours before I leave ...  although I read it doesn't actually start until October .. 🤷‍♂️

5 minutes ago, Stillearly said:

I just entered my first trip ( just to see if it worked ... ) for June , it said it will contact me when I need to fill in the health declaration 72 hours before I leave ...  although I read it doesn't actually start until October .. 🤷‍♂️

Standard Thai glitches perhaps 😎

I have read somewhere a comment that I wholeheartedly agree with: in next to no time, the app will be used for tracking us. 

7 minutes ago, Bazle said:

I have read somewhere a comment that I wholeheartedly agree with: in next to no time, the app will be used for tracking us. 

Leave your phone at home when you're visiting Soi 6/1  .... 😜😜😜

1 hour ago, Bazle said:

I have read somewhere a comment that I wholeheartedly agree with: in next to no time, the app will be used for tracking us. 

I questioned why if they can track us, why bother with the TM47 and TM30.

 

 

7 hours ago, thegrogmonster said:

Is there anywhere to save your details or does this only happen when you enter details for your first trip?

No way to do it yet as no personal account created during setup.

KWA, you can edit any trip you create at a later date.  It is possible to enter all the required data for your first 'trip' creating a record containing all your personal data. 

Logging into the app later on will retrieve this trip info for editing.

On 5/29/2026 at 11:19 PM, Bazle said:

I have read somewhere a comment that I wholeheartedly agree with: in next to no time, the app will be used for tracking us. 

I expect to be tracked by my phone these days anyways. 

On 5/31/2026 at 7:53 AM, biggles said:

KWA, you can edit any trip you create at a later date.  It is possible to enter all the required data for your first 'trip' creating a record containing all your personal data. 

Logging into the app later on will retrieve this trip info for editing.

Agreed, but it saves it locally and once it's submitted it's gone.  Further trips will start from scratch again.  I expect (hope) this will change as the app is developed further.

Although you can select a date well into the future for travel you can't submit it until the usual 3 day period as the health declaration must be up to date.

22 hours ago, boydeste said:

I expect to be tracked by my phone these days anyways. 

"Big Brother" is monitoring us on all devices linked through the internet.

I recently placed an order on my laptop for an item from Amazon. No more than an hour or so later, I logged onto UTube using my "all too smart by half TV". The first advert UTube displayed was for the very same product I had just ordered from Amazon.

 

1 hour ago, Jambo said:

"Big Brother" is monitoring us on all devices linked through the internet.

I recently placed an order on my laptop for an item from Amazon. No more than an hour or so later, I logged onto UTube using my "all too smart by half TV". The first advert UTube displayed was for the very same product I had just ordered from Amazon.

It can be helpful to have big brother tracking you. I turned Google Maps Timeline on so I can figure out the next day which bars I visited the previous night. 

51 minutes ago, forcebwithu said:

It can be helpful to have big brother tracking you. I turned Google Maps Timeline on so I can figure out the next day which bars I visited the previous night. 

How much time do you give the bars to forget you before you go back? 

😀

3 hours ago, forcebwithu said:

It can be helpful to have big brother tracking you. I turned Google Maps Timeline on so I can figure out the next day which bars I visited the previous night. 

I'm a @Metoo on that one🤣

7 hours ago, KWA said:

Agreed, but it saves it locally and once it's submitted it's gone.  Further trips will start from scratch again

Well that's a pain, thanks I never realized that. 

 

Another gobshite.

Haven't ever watched one of vids but have overheard him in the flesh.

The day we can't figure out what's going on here without input from from one of these half wits, is the day to head home😜

On 5/30/2026 at 8:19 AM, Bazle said:

I have read somewhere a comment that I wholeheartedly agree with: in next to no time, the app will be used for tracking us. 

Deny access to location once you arrive and clear immigration ?

5 minutes ago, Zeb said:

Deny access to location once you arrive and clear immigration ?

I probably only need to worry about the wife tracking my location in Pattaya. Other than her knowing where I am it doesn't really bother me.

On 5/29/2026 at 11:19 PM, Bazle said:

I have read somewhere a comment that I wholeheartedly agree with: in next to no time, the app will be used for tracking us. 

 

7 hours ago, Zeb said:

Deny access to location once you arrive and clear immigration ?

The app (currently) does not have or request permission to access location.

7 hours ago, thegrogmonster said:

I probably only need to worry about the wife tracking my location in Pattaya. Other than her knowing where I am it doesn't really bother me.

You still have to worry about being worth more dead than alive...555!

19 hours ago, thegrogmonster said:

I probably only need to worry about the wife tracking my location in Pattaya. Other than her knowing where I am it doesn't really bother me.

The first time I went to AC with "Pattaya's Men Behaving Badly" Sai put a large box of condoms in my holdall. Not wishing to fall for her cunning plan, I of course purchased additional supplies at the Airport and returned her box unopened.

Nevertheless, as I recall, I was deemed to be "unclean" for about the next 3 weeks.