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Thailand to introduce mandatory 'digital arrival card' – everything you need to know

Destinations
James Chapple
10 April 2025

Thailand will replace its paper arrival form, which travellers currently fill out in-flight, with a new digital arrival card in May.

Thailand will introduce a new digital arrival card regime in May (Credit: iStock / hansslegers)

The system will go live on 28 April in readiness for arrivals from 1 May. Visitors to the country will be able to complete the process up to three days prior to their arrival.

A completed digital arrival card will be mandatory, and is free to complete. It will apply to all international arrivals entering Thailand for leisure or business by air, land or sea.

Those transiting or transferring in Thailand without clearing immigration control will be exempt, as will Thai passport holders.