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All foreign visitors to Thailand required to fill in online immigration form from May 1, 2025
The form is free to file.

Thailand is going ahead with plans to reintroduce its defunct electronic travel form for a newer electronic version, due to start on May 1 2025.
New, but old, but free
According to the Bangkok Post, Thailand is planning to introduce an online version of its TM6 immigration form.
The TM6 was previously a hardcopy paper form that Thai immigration authorities required travellers to fill and submit upon arrival.
But that form was discontinued in 2022 for travellers arriving by air in 2022, but was suspended for land and sea travellers in 2024.
The suspension was due to last until Apr. 30 2025, and when it expires Thailand will introduce an online version of the form.
This form will apply to all foreign arrivals, including Singaporeans.
However, it will be free to file, meaning that while travelling to Thailand may need a little bit more work, it will not cost you more, for now.
300 baht fee, suspended for now
Thailand has been juggling several travel-related concerns in recent years.
In 2023, it proposed a 300 baht (S$12 at the time) entry fee for foreign tourists, in a bid to provide more “care for tourists”.
The then Tourism Minister Phiphat Ratchakitprakarn said that tourists requiring services, such as hospital care, were costing the Thai government up to 400 million baht (S$16 million).
But in 2024 the government of then Prime Minister Srettha Thavisin said that the 300 baht (S$11 at the time) fee might be scrapped and that it was proving unpopular with stakeholders in the tourism industry.
The Bangkok Post says that the fee appears not to be scrapped, but the government of Paetongtarn Shinawatra believes that 2025 is not an optimal year to introduce the fee.
The Post quoted an anonymous source who said that the reintroduction of the TM6 form would likely result in the 300 baht fee (S$12 again) being postponed further.
Inappropriate time
The source also said that news that criminal networks were using Thailand as a transit hub for illegal activity may have made the government feel it was an "inappropriate time” to start the fee.
One example of this comes as Chinese actor Wang Xing was allegedly lured to the Thai-Myanmar border by a scam group and kidnapped.
Thai police have since confirmed that Wang has been found and safely transported to Bangkok on Jan. 7.
Thailand recently launched a new app for tourists to restore confidence in it as a tourist destination.
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