Prachuap: German retiree caught on 2,528 day overstay

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Prachuap: German retiree caught on 2,528 day overstay

 

Picture: Talk News Online

 

An investigation team led by Prachuap Khirikhan immigration chief Pol Col Sutthipong Phutthipong arrested a 64 year old German man by the name of Michael. H. in Moo 4 of Koh Lak sub-district, Muang district yesterday. 

 

He was on overstay of around seven years - 2,528 days. 

 

Talk News Online said the man was on a retirement visa and had first entered Thailand in July of 2011 with permission to stay one year.

 

Picture: Talk News Online

 

Pol Col Sutthipong itemised the blacklist time periods for people who overstay their visas and in the case of the German man he will be banned from entering Thailand again for ten years. 

 

Source: Talk News Online

 

 

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[cornishcarlos]

Report the Farang hotline is obviously working well...

He had a good run though !!

[sirocco]

at least he knows how to receive them.
He offered them coffee with real mugs and the saucers that go with it.
Well, the toilet paper roll is less classy.

[ChipButty]

He was on overstay of around seven years, Thats a bit lightweight 

[petermik]

Silly <deleted>....he got a retirement extension then never bothered to renew it...no sympathy sorry

[smedly]

13 minutes ago, petermik said:

Silly <deleted>....he got a retirement extension then never bothered to renew it...no sympathy sorry

maybe he confused 12 months for 12 years

[JeffersLos]

No amnesty until July 31st?

[Mister T]

He is a well liked man, has always gone out of his way to help people, both Thai and foreigner. Most of us knew of his visa situation, so I doubt he was grassed up.

[steven100]

they are certainly keeping an eye on that blue pen 

[petermik]

7 hours ago, Mister T said:

He is a well liked man, has always gone out of his way to help people, both Thai and foreigner. Most of us knew of his visa situation, so I doubt he was grassed up.

silly silly man.......

[weaver93]

auf wiedersehn...

[CorpusChristie]

56 minutes ago, Mister T said:

He is a well liked man, has always gone out of his way to help people, both Thai and foreigner. Most of us knew of his visa situation, so I doubt he was grassed up.

That seems more of a reason to think that he was grassed up , many people knowing he was on overstay .If no one knew he was overstaying , that would mean less likely to be grassed up .

   You only need to fall out with one person for them to make the call

[chuang]

1 hour ago, Mister T said:

He is a well liked man, has always gone out of his way to help people, both Thai and foreigner. Most of us knew of his visa situation, so I doubt he was grassed up.

" most of us knew of his visa situation " but none offers to help....

[poohy]

A thoroughly nice man and  friend , he has helped many people in the town

It will be sad to see him go

[CorpusChristie]

Just now, chuang said:

" most of us knew of his visa situation " but none offers to help....

What help could anyone give him ?

[Mister T]

4 minutes ago, chuang said:

" most of us knew of his visa situation " but none offers to help....

He is a giver not a taker, helped others and rarely asked for help with anything.

[KhunBENQ]

53 minutes ago, CorpusChristie said:

What help could anyone give him ?

Pointing him to a visa agent?

 

[CorpusChristie]

19 minutes ago, KhunBENQ said:

Pointing him to a visa agent?

 

He could do that himself .

Seems like he choose to and wanted to go on overstay

[bristolgeoff]

if he had a retirement visa just renew  back then.then he would not have a problem now

[Bender Rodriguez]

who knows if he was confused doing visa once VS every single year the same documents

 

do thais have to do the IO dance each year in our country? should they show 10x in savings the annual income of a poor farmer ?

 

[herwin1234]

2 hours ago, poohy said:

A thoroughly nice man and  friend , he has helped many people in the town

It will be sad to see him go

nice to see a sympathetic reply. 

no doubt local immigration was well aware of his situation the last six year, and decided to not bother him. i wonder what happened all of a sudden the need to arrest a good farang (although without a visa) instead of helping him getting him a visa.

[herwin1234]

2 minutes ago, Bender Rodriguez said:

 

do thais have to do the IO dance each year in our country? should they show 10x in savings the annual income of a poor farmer ?

 

 no, but than again, Thais in their new homecountry behave and are positive and integrate. Farang on the other hand are abusive, negative, and insulting their new home country on a daily basis, and behave like the Thais should adapt to them and their superior ideas and attitude, instead of integrating.

so yeah, i can understand why the Thais are not really going for the idea of giving citizenship too easy for the farang...

[Kerryd]

18 minutes ago, bristolgeoff said:

if he had a retirement visa just renew  back then.then he would not have a problem now

But that would have required proving his finances which maybe he wasn't able to do.

But he'll go back and can spend the next 10 years taking advantage of the German Healthcare system. Probably won't be back again in any event. He'll be 74 by the time he's legally allowed to return and if he tries any shenanigans (like changing his name) no doubt he'd get reported (again) by the same person that reported him the first time.

I love how there doesn't seem to be any appeal process or leniency though. Literally, if they'd caught him on a 2 day overstay they'd do the exact same thing (with a shorter black list period). 

Back home if the government tried that, the first thing that would happen is some lawyer would file for an immediate injunction and then a bail request and within hours you'd be back home and probably secure in the knowledge that your case probably won't even make it to court for 3-6 months.

The lawyers could tie it up in court to the point the government finally gives up and agrees to let you fix whatever issue they nicked you for, assuming the judge didn't tell them to do that in the first place.
We've had people fight extradition orders in Canada all the way to the Supreme Court ! Every time one court ordered an extradition, the lawyers appealed it to a higher court and, for some reason, every time it went to appeal, the extradition order was overturned but when it went back to court it was upheld.
Took almost 10 years before they finally sent the guy back to Thailand to face the music !
 

[transam]

Visas require cash, if his had gone, there was no way out. He had a good run....Well done that man....

[poohy]

8 minutes ago, herwin1234 said:

nice to see a sympathetic reply. 

no doubt local immigration was well aware of his situation the last six year, and decided to not bother him. i wonder what happened all of a sudden the need to arrest a good farang (although without a visa) instead of helping him getting him a visa.

It is very strange Micheal was well known to both Thais and foreigners he has helped the local police at various times so something or "someone" has changed recently to bring this about.

For a German he had a positively evil british sense of humour,as i said he will be missed

 

[CorpusChristie]

3 minutes ago, transam said:

Visas require cash, if his had gone, there was no way out. He had a good run....Well done that man....

Seven years ago though, when he went on overstay , you just needed a letter from your Embassy without actually having to have the cash

[cardinalblue]

Wow a real criminal...what a threat to society....

[steven100]

3 hours ago, CorpusChristie said:

What help could anyone give him ?

mama's noodle 

[steven100]

how much money has he not required to forfeit for his 2,528 days of freedom  ?

[Andrew65]

17 minutes ago, Kerryd said:

if he tries any shenanigans (like changing his name)

...much harder now that they have the fingerprinting system.