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Two week trip next month. Finished inbound TDAC already. Question: domestic Chiang Mai flight after arrival does not care about this, correct?
No, the TDAC is not required for domestic travel, only international when you're coming into the country.
Yeah, exactly. I flew Chiang Mai to Bangkok last time without any TDAC check, they only cared when I landed in Thailand initially. Makes domestic flights way easier.
Positive report from BKK: new officer, friendly, scanned QR first try, asked length of stay, done. It felt like they had actual training this time.
I downloaded THIM and still completed TDAC. That seems to be the safe interpretation. The app does not magically replace the arrival card yet.
That is how I read it too. Downloading THIM does not mean you can skip TDAC. Keep the QR ready and you are fine.
My reminder is just TDAC??? in all caps. Not elegant, but it got my attention.
Applied 3 days before departure. Email came almost immediately. I saved PDF, screenshot, and printout because airport Wi-Fi and I are enemies.
Calendar reminders: seven days before and three days before. Boring system, works every time.
is everyone basically using THIM as profile stuff and still doing TDAC separately? that is what i am doing until the rules get less weird.
Same here. THIM for profile, TDAC fresh each trip. Not trusting app vibes over written requirements.
ok that makes sense. i will install THIM if i can find it, but TDAC is the thing i am treating as mandatory.
Same plan. TDAC before packing, THIM tinkering after landing when there is Wi-Fi and snacks.
Suvarnabhumi Friday night was not bad. QR scan took maybe ten seconds. I did see a family get sent aside for no TDAC, so no, I would not wing it.
Friday night BKK can still be a zoo, but the QR lane moved. Family in front of us had no TDAC and got pulled out of line.
BKK arrival was somehow the least stressful part of a 26 hour travel day. Finding the QR email took longer than the scan.
My very boring travel hack: keep a Notes template with flight, hotel, passport number, phone. Copy paste. Future you will be grateful.
Notes template plus last approved PDF as reference. Nerdy but effective.
Honestly appreciate the disclaimers here. It does not pretend to be the government site, which makes me trust it more than half the pages ranking on Google.
Exactly. Reads more like a practical wiki than a press release. That is all I wanted.
Yeah, this is clearly not an official page, but unfortunately, there is no official page that explains everything. So it's been kind of stressful looking at all these different sources. It's nice to have a consolidated place where people can talk about this.
Totally agree, it’s way easier to get a clear picture when folks share their real experiences instead of just official jargon. Made my last arrival a lot less stressful!
We had six people going for a wedding. Everyone got approved within about fifteen minutes. One friend typed letter O instead of zero in the passport number, so watch that.
Six approvals that fast is believable. Our slowest person was also the passport typo person. There is always one.
We timed ours because we are annoying: fastest 47 seconds, slowest 8 minutes after the passport number redo.
47 seconds is wild compared with visa paperwork elsewhere. Thailand digital systems are great when they actually work.
Did mine at the gate. Took 6 minutes. Maybe 7 because I dropped my passport under the seat like an idiot.
Gate submission works, but check flight number after any airline equipment change. We had one update after check in.
The comparison table helped. TDAC equals arrival card. THIM equals broader platform. Why that sentence is not on the official page in 24 point font, I do not know.
That table saved me from doom scrolling official pages at midnight. Bookmarked it for my group chat.
Travelling with parents in their 70s. Phones too dim, text too small, officer speaking through a mask. We printed everything. That was the only reason it stayed calm.
For older parents, printed QR plus hotel booking is the move. Staff seemed happier not having to squint at a cracked phone screen.
Dad's phone died in the queue. Officer scanned the printout, no lecture, no drama. Printing felt silly until it was not.
Printing feels ancient until your battery hits 1 percent in an immigration line. Then it feels genius.
Submitted from Munich at 01:10. QR email arrived before I finished packing. German brain wanted a stamp and a PDF receipt, but it was just done.
UK here. Submitted after dinner, QR before the kettle boiled. Rare government form win.
I was 100 percent convinced THIM replaced TDAC until I saw the screenshots here. The rollout messaging is messy. TDAC still seems to be the pre arrival form.
Yes, still mandatory before arrival. THIM looks like where they want things to end up. The transition is just clunky.
i wish immigration had one plain english page. instead it is split between a portal, a PDF, and a facebook post from forever ago.
Used the apply link here after the province kept showing wrong. Support fixed it quickly. Not a huge story, just saved me from submitting bad info.
Same. I picked Chiang Mai city but had the province wrong. Support caught it. I would not have noticed until the airport.
Province dropdowns are a trap when you are tired. I almost picked the wrong Bangkok option too.
Third Thailand trip this year. I still hate the hotel address field. Approval is instant once the address is accepted, but that dropdown makes me feel like I forgot how forms work.
Hotel address field is the final boss. Use the district from the booking, not whatever Google Maps autocompletes at 1am.
Can someone explain like I'm five. THIM is not the TDAC, right? I need the arrival card before flying even if I install the app?
Correct. Do the TDAC before you fly. Treat THIM as extra account or platform stuff for now.
Airport staff told us the same thing last month: TDAC before landing, THIM is other platform stuff. At least that part was consistent.
Good to hear airport staff are finally saying the same thing. Last year two counters gave us two different answers.
Not a dumb question. I work in product and the naming still confused me. Official docs are somehow both too long and not clear.
App Store reviews are useless for this. Half the one stars are people who thought it was a VPN or a visa app.
Phuket Wednesday: scanned fine for me. Guy behind me had to retry twice because of screen glare. Paper copy is not overkill, trust me.
Paper backup saved our friend in Phuket when his phone died in the taxi queue. They scanned the printout and moved on.
The new staff are better, sure, but I still remember the old crew at Suvarnabhumi desk 12. Absolute nightmare. My wife got barked at for opening the QR too slowly. No reason for it.
Why did she even need to open the QR code? Normally, the immigration counters will have it already on their screen. They just need to see your passport.
Funny you say that, I’ve had mixed experiences. Sometimes they do have it on their screen, other times they asked me to pull up the THIM app or TDAC QR myself, maybe depends on the officer or how busy they are.
Where are people finding the actual THIM app? I searched THIM, TDAC, Thai immigration, all the usual terms. App store is giving me random travel apps and one thing that looks fake.
Search result was weird for me too. Link from this page worked, App Store search did not. Lowercase thim gave me a kids game.
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