Overstayed foreigners told to contact embassies or face immigration law

[geovalin]

All foreigners who have overstayed in Cambodia have been advised to get in touch with their respective embassies to re-issue them with a new passport so that they can return to their homeland.

 

General Department of Immigration spokesman General Keo Vannthan said yesterday that all foreigners who overstay in Cambodia are considered illegals and if they are caught by the authorities, then the embassy concerned will be notified of their need to leave the country. “We have had many such cases of foreigners who overstayed here in the past and their respective embassies had helped to deport them,” he said.

 

Gen Vannthan cited a case where a German man overstayed and they got in touch with the German Embassy to help issue a new passport and subsequently the man went back to Germany. “If foreigners overstay, then they must face the consequences of the immigration law,” he added.

 

 

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[ThailandRyan]

Why issue a new passport if the old one in possession is still valid, or because many they have found have expired passports and Visa's.  The article leaves out why a new passport is needed or is Cambodia taking the overstayed individuals passport, many unanswered questions.