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Thank you, treetops. Much appreciated. I now went to that post of mine and corrected the link to https://ratchakitcha.soc.go.th/documents/37563.pdf

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Now, I am intrigued. I wish I could see this, the name of a foreigner who is not a permanent resident in a blue house registration book after the house name. Sensational! Hold on to this, it may have a high collector's value.

Correct. This is not a prison sentence. If the foreigner who is given a deportation order has the wherewithal to take a flight out of Thailand immediately after receiving the order and having paid whatever fine was imposed on him and other costs, if any, he is free to go from the court house directly to the airport, probably accompanied by a police escort, where he will be handed over into the custody of the flight captain who will have to hold onto his passport until arrival at the destination. If not, he will be provided with accomodation in the IDC, for a fee, until his departure.

Sentencing by a court of law, if that option of surrender is chosen, will be under Section 81 of the Immigration Act. So far, I have never seen news of a prison sentence given for overstaying.

All three options of surrender I mentioned follow the legal process. The difference is that only the third option, surrender at the immigration desk at the airport of departure, results in an immediate departure from the country, with a fixed fine depending on the length of overstay but a maximum of 20,000 Baht and without arrest, detention, appearance in court, sentencing and a deportation order issued by a court of law.

Yes, that's 5+ years your friend has been in Thailand so far, but in your opening post of this topic you wrote "5 years+ overstay", which can be interpreted only as "an overstay of more than five years". So there is the issue with your "story". Yes, surrendering is the right thing for your friend to do and it is generous on your part to assist him with this, and from reading the replies in this topic so far you will have gathered that there are basically three ways, respectively three places, to surrender: police station nearest immigration office immigration desk in the departure hall of the airport of departure

I think your thinking is wrong. Have the possessor of the blue book you are talking about explain how your name — probably only your forename(s) — got there.

1. The caution you were given was probably based on Article 12 of the Immigration Act. 2. The information you received from the Phuket Town immigration office is wrong, unless an announcement has been published in the Government Gazette stating such blanket limit of VE-60 entries. The immigration official's authority to deny entry under Section 12 is not tied to the number of previous entries made within the year.