Overstay and fly back home.

[Fashianu]

I am ready for various denigrating comments and I can also understand them: but I have never hurt anyone, but I could have done it to myself. In my own small way I also contributed to the economy of the small village in which I was hidden like a mouse: this will probably be my only post, but I'll try to ask your opinion anyway: I have an overstay situation close to 18 years:  20,000 thb are ready, the plane ticket is ready: if I arrive at Suvarnabhumi without being stopped along the way, I check in, go through immigration, I get the well-deserved ban and goodbye Thailand. Is everything correct or could I have problems at the airport? Let me start by saying that I have no pending charges of any kind. Thanks again.

[DrJack54]

15 minutes ago, Fashianu said:

. Is everything correct or could I have problems at the airport? Let me start by saying that I have no pending charges of any kind.

Everything correct.

As others will post.....be very careful making your way to airport.

Once in Bangkok the rail link to BKK would be one option..

 

They have seen it all before 

Ban 10 yr.

 

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[Caldera]

That's how it's supposed to work, but with such a long overstay, an important question is if they can still find a record of your entry from 18 years ago. And how straightforward it will be to transfer your stamps, as they will need to stamp you out in a passport that is currently valid for travel (and put the overstay and ban stamps in that passport as well).

 

Your passport from back then has certainly expired after 18 years, so I'd assume that you got a new one that is currently valid but doesn't have any Thai stamps in it? Which kind of visa and permission to stay did you have when you went on overstay 18 years ago? Do you still have the passport that has your Thai stamps in your possession and can take it along?

[BrandonJT]

Your understanding is correct.  That is how it should work.  There was a concerning article from December at Phuket Airport about an arrest in the actual airport for overstay, but no details emerged that I know of.
 

 

[UWEB]

7 hours ago, Fashianu said:

I am ready for various denigrating comments and I can also understand them: but I have never hurt anyone, but I could have done it to myself. In my own small way I also contributed to the economy of the small village in which I was hidden like a mouse: this will probably be my only post, but I'll try to ask your opinion anyway: I have an overstay situation close to 18 years:  20,000 thb are ready, the plane ticket is ready: if I arrive at Suvarnabhumi without being stopped along the way, I check in, go through immigration, I get the well-deserved ban and goodbye Thailand. Is everything correct or could I have problems at the airport? Let me start by saying that I have no pending charges of any kind. Thanks again.

That must be a new Record, good luck with your Travel plan.