Immigration cracks down on hotels

[usual suspect]

Dannie Boy..do you think it will still take you an hour door-to-door to report at HH Immigration with the queue of hotel owners/managers there on their 'daily delivery' of guest-names ..

[dtaai-maai]

I thought we'd already established that this 24 hour reporting business (which is completely unrealistic in all sorts of scenarios in any case) was a load of nonsense. I've never done it, and I don't know anyone else who's ever done it, nor do I know anyone who has had any problems as a result of not doing it.

[Dannie Boy]

Dannie Boy..do you think it will still take you an hour door-to-door to report at HH Immigration with the queue of hotel owners/managers there on their 'daily delivery' of guest-names ..

This issue about hotels having to report the details of visitors is not something new, but how they do it I don't know but fairly certain that they dont all line up in a queue at the immigration office. Before I moved here I stayed at loads of different hotels and I think without exception I had to fill a card out and presumably the cards are sent to immigration for them to process, but not by the staff on the front desks dealing with the public.

[ste860]

the imigration used to offer a service where they came to collect the forms from hotels ,it was for a nominal fee i think and a good excuse for them to get out of the qffice this practice has been going on for years

[bonnielass]

I thought we'd already established that this 24 hour reporting business (which is completely unrealistic in all sorts of scenarios in any case) was a load of nonsense. I've never done it, and I don't know anyone else who's ever done it, nor do I know anyone who has had any problems as a result of not doing it.

I suspect you are right DM. I have never heard of any private individual doing this either.

[PeteC]

I thought we'd already established that this 24 hour reporting business (which is completely unrealistic in all sorts of scenarios in any case) was a load of nonsense. I've never done it, and I don't know anyone else who's ever done it, nor do I know anyone who has had any problems as a result of not doing it.

DTM is right. The article states the below though: "...The regulation says home owners, landlords or managers of hotels must notify the local immigration authorities within 24 hours of the arrival of foreign nationals who are in the country legally, but for a limited time - the target being tourists....."

We'll have to see how tenacious this general is and how far he'll go concerning non-tourists. Pete

[chaspul]

I suspect you are right DM. I have never heard of any private individual doing this either.

Me thinks Bonnielass you do not read the forum too closely. Have posted before that as a house owner I used the TM 30 and still have the tear off strip in my passport. Still fill it out again after a couple of days trip to BK but IMM just initial original slip with date.
As the title of the TM30 states as a "Owner" I have to report where Aliens stay, which is within 24 hrs.

Not strictly enforced by IMM, but the system is now becoming computerised and could be extra "tea mony" if you don't do 24 hour reporting. Hotels of course do this for you.

Notification Form for House Master, Owner, or the Possessor of The Residence Where Aliens Have Stay (TM.30)

Chas