Your first 90 daysin Hua Hin.
Everything a new arrival files, in the order it becomes due rather than the order you hear about it. Week one is shorter than you think.
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General information, not advice about your case. Procedures change, so where a detail matters to your application we confirm it with you rather than print a figure here that could be out of date.
Ninety days, in order
Most of the difficulty in the first three months is sequencing. Several errands ask for a document that another errand produces.
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Before you fly
Jump to sectionThe few things that are far easier to obtain while you are still at home.
Week one
Jump to sectionThe address filing, and why it comes before everything else.
Weeks two to four
Jump to sectionBank, certificate of residence, phone and utilities, in the order that works.
Month two, day 90
Jump to sectionLicence, house book if it applies, and the report that closes the period.
What to bring, and what to leave
A short list, and every item on it is easier at home than here.
What to do before you arrive
Some documents are considerably easier to obtain in your own country, at your own bank, in your own language, than they are once you have moved. Which ones depends on where you are coming from and what you intend to apply for.
Bring more copies than you think you need, and bring the originals of anything that names you differently from your passport.
The order matters more than the list
Several of the first errands ask for a document that another errand produces. Doing them in the order they occur to you costs weeks; doing them in the order below usually does not.
Four moves, in ninety days
Two of these have deadlines attached. The other two only feel urgent when something else is waiting on them.
Week one: the address
The address notification comes first, because it has a window and because several later errands assume it has been done. It belongs to the owner of your property, and it is the tenant who arranges it who does not have the argument later.
Weeks two to four: the account
The bank account, and the certificate of residence that most branches ask for. This is the pair that traps people, because each of them can be asked for first depending on the counter you are standing at. Phone and utilities follow easily once one of them exists.
Month two: the licence
The driving licence conversion, and the house book registration if it applies to you. Both are separate queues at separate offices, and both want the residence certificate you obtained in the previous step.
Day ninety: the report
The 90-day report closes the period and starts the next one. It is an address notification rather than a visa matter, and from here it repeats quietly for as long as you stay.
Prefer this handled for you?
Tell us when you arrived and where you live. We will tell you what is due and in what order, or run the sequence for you.
Hua Hin, specifically
Where you live in and around the town changes which counter you deal with.
Which offices you will meet
The first ninety days involve more than one office, and they are not in the same place or open at the same hours. Where you live decides which of them serves you, and in one case which province you file in.
Condominium or house
In a condominium the address filing usually sits with the owner or the building office. In a house it sits with an individual landlord, who may never have filed one. Which of those you are living in changes who you have to chase in week one.
What we do for new arrivals
We take the whole sequence rather than one errand: the filings that have deadlines, the documents that feed each other, and the dates you will need again next year. Most of it happens without you being present.
The pages this guide feeds
The service inventory, the Hua Hin page, and the two guides that follow this one.
Everything we handle
Read the guideVisas, extensions and reporting, prepared and filed in Hua Hin.
Visa services in Hua Hin
Read the guideWhich office serves the town, and what we handle for residents here.
TM30 explained
Read the guideWhose filing it is, when the window opens, and what a missing one costs you later.
The admin calendar
Read the guideEvery recurring filing, when it falls, and how the dates interact.