If they didn’t know about you, how did 5 uniforms find you in the street?
Khmer bureaucratic logic at work! It’s likely this kind of broken thinking that has a lot of locals (at least, family opinions in the province) not bothering to involve the police in anything not life threatening.
The police only turn up where there’s likely to be money or food is what one endearing old aunt explained to me.

I think she may be on to something.

I’ve done my own FPCS bar one, when Kim the super agent quickly made some changes while doing my visa extension.
Landlords/ladies get a vacant expression about it.

Jerry Atrick wrote: ↑Wed Aug 24, 2022 1:38 pm I am in the FPCS app of the guy who handles my visa renewals - and also once every year or 18 months, upon being prompted by the relevant authorities I guess, my landlords sexy 20 something niece comes and reggoes me in the app on his phone also

Never had a copper check at my house since last decade

I think more detail is needed…

Freightdog wrote: ↑Wed Aug 24, 2022 1:31 pm If they didn’t know about you, how did 5 uniforms find you in the street?

They knew about me by then, and I'm the only whitey in the neighborhood so not hard to spot.

Just a quick update for others who might have been as confused as me - I rent an apartment in a high-rise from a private landlord who told me that although he's my landlord, it was the building owner who deals with that app. I went to the building's office and the woman who I saw was pretty on the ball - it seemed like a common job for her, considering there are quite a number of foreigners in the building.

She also confirmed, as other posters have mentioned, that foreign residents are not supposed to have the app on their phones. It's not really our business. Our job is just to ensure that our landlords / building owners have registered us on there. When I mentioned that I'm always asked for a screenshot of the app whenever I renew my visa, she said landlords / owners are supposed to send you the screenshots from their phone that you can use to show the visa agents you're registered on there - she sent me screenshots via Telegram and also gave me a printout of them.

Very helpful, on the ball and seemed to know her stuff. I know, right...

Now, as I only renew my visa once a year and my memory seems to decline ever so slightly with every passing renewal, just to confirm, now that I'm on that app, in order to renew my visa, I just need my passport, a letter of employment, a screenshot of the app, and a decent visa agent right? The visa agent I usually use has apparently closed down so any recommendations for other ones?

Thanks