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3 minutes ago, Tchooptip said:

What would happened if in a similar situation someone, lets say with no friends no family at all, would be incapable to buy a plane ticket? Could it last for years?

   I believe that the overstay fine gets reduced by 200 Baht per day that you are in IDC .

Some Embassy will give you the money for a flight home, although they will keep your passport until you repay the money .

   Some people live at IDC, cannot or will not go back to their Country, so live permanently at IDC centers

I am using Google chrome and its in black & white

Where does it state that it says that his passport says that he is 37 ?

It is probably just a reporting error .

On 10/20/2016 at 4:33 PM, cruisemonkey said:

 

It's deliberately left unknown so you will show up in Thailand and be refused entry until the Immigration officer extorts several thousand baht from you. 

  Is this a fact ?

I have not heard of any reports of people having to bribe immigration officers to get VES .

Chiang mai itself is the same :)

Under no circumstance let the Mother see the Child .

She may just take him to Laos , then you may never get him back.

Get on the first flight home 

It would be interesting to know how the immigration knew that he was on an overstay . I seem to recall that it has happened a few times recently . Immigration going to peoples houses to arrest them for overstay , these are not random checks, immigration seem to know that they are overstaying and where they live .

   It could be that immigration are now checking peoples arrivals cards with their departure cards and going to visit those people who do not leave when their visa expires.

   Which would explain why they got his guy on a short 47 day overstay .

30 days grace to let him leave voluntarily, a few days to check that he hadnt already left and a few days to track him down and arrest him and that would explain why they havent gone and got the long term overstayers , they long term overstayers arrival cards have probably been lost

13 minutes ago, Fithman said:

 

Wrong !  

 

"You must also bring your current passport with you when you apply, and a full colour photocopy of the entire passport (every page including blank pages).

You can’t travel with it after you’ve applied for a new one - but you will be able to keep your existing passport for ID purposes."

 

Check the HMPO website.

 

https://www.gov.uk/overseas-passports/y/thailand/renewing_new/adult

 

 

  Well considering that Ive used both an old passport and also my new passport on the same day , it seems that you can atually use a old pp after you have applied for a new one

Four years ago I left Thailand on my "cancelled" nearly full Passport whilst holding my new passport , went across to Myanmar, got stamped into Myanmar on my new passport and then came back to Thailand on my new passport about ten minutes later , so both passports were valid and usable

9 minutes ago, Fithman said:

Your previous passport was cancelled by HMPO when  your application for a new visa was received in the UK.

 

 

   It wasnt , I applied for a new passport and it was at Trendy for one month waiting for me to collect it and I used my old PP to  and get a new visa a few weeks after I had applied for the new PP .

  Also , four years ago when I applied for a new PP, they didnt cut the corner off the old one , so I used the old PP until it was completely full, whilst holding my new passport .

   I dont think that the HMPO cancels passports when you renew and they certainly do not cancel when you apply, otherwise you would be in a Country without any legal travel documents, which would make you in that Country illegally 

6 hours ago, Fithman said:

 

I think you will find that the Trendy employees have no authority to cancel a passport.

   I did receive a new PP at Trendy a few weeks ago and my previous PP was cancelled at the moment when I received my new PP and my old PP was cancelled by way of Trendy employees cutting a corner off my old PP .

   The cutting off of the corner invalidated my old PP .

1 hour ago, JackThompson said:

 

... and then you go to one of the booths and present your passport with the visa, and they stamp you into the country.  

 

 

   At the Nong Khai and Mukdahan borders, they stamp you in whilst they issue the Visa , then is no need to get stamped in at a booth because its already stamped .

   The card is to show that youve paid the border crossing fee

2 hours ago, jethro69 said:

More than 10 years back I had exactly the same, it's a kind of scam they did run back then. At that time I still needed the VoA, they send you from one window to the next one, somewhere you paid like 20 bath, got a kinda of receipt, and they stamped the receipt, but not the passport. Upon return we were supposed to pay 200$, don't remember if that was for both of us or one person, however we sat it out, and 2 hours later we were on our way. Might have been no place in their jail

Needles to say I avoided LAOS for quite some years like the plague!

    It is still the same system and it isnt a scam .

You get the forms at one window , fill the forms out hand the forms back in and then wait and then collect the PP and visa from a different window .

   I cannot see where the scam was, that you speak of

Hire cars with a driver charge 3000 Baht per day in CM, including petrol .

Car only, no driver or petrol , 1000-1500 Baht per day

9 minutes ago, Bangkok or bust said:

Yes I only had to go back across the bridge, arrive, then turn the car around and depart. Then go back across the bridge and enter with new visa.  

 

   Did you do that ?

*Edit * Seems that you did 

3 minutes ago, Sooo Upto Me said:

 

C'mon Sherlock work it out.

  I cannot work out what they should be doing .

They are probably waiting to a Doctor arrive to make a pronouncement  and then inform an undertaker to come and collect him .

   Not sure what else they could be doing 

Different air con appliances use up different amounts of electricity .

Older models use up more electric than newer models

1 minute ago, lopburi3 said:

He entered Laos illegally and has been fined for that.  He had no current Thai exit stamp to show Laos immigration so would have not been allowed legal entry.

  He did have a vaild Thai exit stamp from September 29 th.

He could have asked to get his Laos entry stamp back dated to when he arrived

4 minutes ago, Sooo Upto Me said:

That's it everybody u just stand around and hav a good old gossip with eachother.

Don't worry bout the poor student lying there dead in a pool of blood.

 

   What would you suggest that they do ?

1 minute ago, lopburi3 said:

To enter either country you need an exit stamp from the other.

   He didnt have an entry stamp into Laos, that is what I meant .

Instead of getting a Laos exit stamp , he could have  tried to get a Laos entry stamp and there would be no need to go back into Thailand

Although Children do not get fined for overstaying , What would happen if they overstayed by more than 90 days ?

   Would they be subjected to a blacklist order ?

3 minutes ago, Bangkok or bust said:

 Now I'm going to Thailand, to start over. 

   Could you go straight back into Laos and get a Visa on Arrival, instead of going to BKK for a Visa  ?

1 minute ago, Bangkok or bust said:

They made me pay a 3000 thb dine, then gave me exit stamp and stamped my Lao visa used.  Now I'm going to Thailand, to start over. 

   Could you not have just got an entry stamp insead of an exit stamp ?

1 hour ago, nipper240 said:

You have to ask yourself if there is a fundamental flaw in the psyche of Thais'. These types of incidents occur each and everyday, on a scale not seen anywhere in the world, bar Libya, They are also published for all to know - yet, day in, day out, you see some of the most brainless, inanity, out right stupidity, some almost beyond belief. 

 

Not only killing themselves, but also their own family members, women, children, babies etc. How is it possible or credible to understand that such moronic, erratic behavior from  - supposed adults. 

   A belief in reincarnation ? 

4 minutes ago, ubonjoe said:

 

 

I guess you missed the two post I have quoted.

  Nope, I did see them .

It was when he said that he is going to the bridge and got a "departed stamp from Thailand" It wasnt clear that he meant the departure stamp from 29th September and I was merely asking him where he is now .

   I did see what you advised him to do and I was asking him what he did do /has done .

   I was just going to advise him NOT to try to leave Laos without an exit stamp , if he hadnt done so already

Anyway, its an on going situation, which could get quite serious , so, lets move on