Check your passport at desk before leaving I.O

[wozza]

Something we seasoned expats do but my daughter came to visit before visiting some islands for a total of 35 days and had a 60 day tourist visa from Australia, I was looking at her passport stamps just before she flew back to Bangkok then to Samui and noticed that the visa was not stamped as used, they entered her in to the country on a visa exempt, obviously missed the visa completely,  She had 2 hours spare at Bangkok before her next domestic flight and went to Immigration to get it fixed, all done now but how so easy it is to get stung for an overstay fine.  

[lopburi3]

DId you ask her if she enters the visa on her arrival card?  Normally that is the reason for them being missed.  

[ubonjoe]

I have always checked the stamp shortly after it was done in my passport. Just an old habit after doing a lot of traveling.

[wozza]

 

17 minutes ago, lopburi3 said:

DId you ask her if she enters the visa on her arrival card?  Normally that is the reason for them being missed.  

Good point lopburi3 I will ask 

[wozza]

Yes she did put the visa number on the entry card , perhaps the I.O just had a long night and was thinking of whats for breakfast,

[lopburi3]

6 minutes ago, wozza said:

Yes she did put the visa number on the entry card , perhaps the I.O just had a long night and was thinking of whats for breakfast,

Very likely - and probably had many visa exempt in a row before her.

[KhunBENQ]

3 minutes ago, lopburi3 said:

Very likely - and probably had many visa exempt in a row before her. 

And remembered big boss's demand to rush the person through in 30 seconds?

No time for browsing through the passport or asking unnecessary questions.

[damascase]

On checking your passport: if you come back from abroad on a re-entry permit, make absolutely sure that the re-entry stamp was noticed and taken into account by the Immigration Officer. After hearing a story about a guy who was kicked out when he did his 90 day report and Immigration established that he had been granted a 30 day exemption without the re-entry permit having been taken into account when he entered the country at Suvarnabhumi, I always hand over my passport opened at the page with the permit, and then check the date on the spot.

[LongTimeLurker]

On 11/3/2018 at 12:46 PM, wozza said:

Yes she did put the visa number on the entry card , perhaps the I.O just had a long night and was thinking of whats for breakfast,

I had put my re-entry permit number on the landing card but the IO, seeing that I was only returning for 3 days, said "Tourist, no visa"

 

I replied, "have visa, that's why I put the visa number in the box on the form."

 

They sometimes just don't read what's in front of them.