Over 3,000 foreigners expelled from Cambodia in 2021

3,594 foreigners from 43 countries were deported from Cambodia in 2021, according to figures released yesterday. The figures, which came from Lt. Gen. Pum Vithya, Director of the Department of Foreigners and Immigration at the General Assembly of the General Department of Immigration on the morning of April 6, 2022. show that Thais, Chinese and Vietnamese were the most deported nationalities.

Lt. Gen. Pum did not elaborate on the exact number of ethnic groups who were expelled from Cambodia. However, the General Department of Immigration’s 2021 bulletin, which was posted on its Facebook page in February 2022, shows that the 3,594 foreigners deported consisted of 2,899 Thais, 266 Chinese, 194 Vietnamese. 101 Nigerians, 19 Indonesians, 16 Filipinos, 7 Malaysians and others.

From 2014 to 2021, Cambodian authorities deported a total of more than 20,000 illegal aliens (107 nationalities). In addition to deported foreigners, the report highlights foreigners living and working illegally in Cambodia.

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