3 hours ago, vinci said:

if he show up at airport, there's no point of arrest or holding him for long period of time, its a waste of their money and resources, you have to feed him among other thing, if he fall sick or emergency its a waste of time and energy, best is let him board and begone and go have lunch

Best to let him have a dose of the IDC before sending him on his merry way, I think. If that doesn't finally knock some sense into him regarding the error of his ways, I don't know what will.

11 minutes ago, OJAS said:

Best to let him have a dose of the IDC before sending him on his merry way, I think. If that doesn't finally knock some sense into him regarding the error of his ways, I don't know what will.

I think you may be ignorant of how detainees get out of the IDC. They are not "sent on their merry way".

On 9/2/2026 at 4:04 AM, Sergo said:

I’m curious about this because I know someone in this situation...

Where is this someone you know today, seven days after you posted about his predicament? What advice have you given him? Has he left Thailand?

5 minutes ago, Maestro said:

Where is this someone you know today, seven days after you posted about his predicament? What advice have you given him? Has he left Thailand?

On 9/8/2026 at 9:03 AM, Sergo said:

A 20,000 THB fine and a 10 year ban. They took him into a separate room and asked him a lot of questions: why the overstay was so long, how he had supported himself all those years, how he had managed to renew his passport without a visa, whether he had ever undergone surgery or been hospitalized, whether he had ever been stopped by the police, how he traveled around the country, and other questions. He told me that just under two hours passed from the moment they checked his passport to the time they let him go. There were two immigration officers with him, and, according to him, neither of them seemed particularly angry about what he had done.

14 hours ago, Maestro said:

Where is this someone you know today, seven days after you posted about his predicament? What advice have you given him? Has he left Thailand?

I have already posted what happened to him when he was about to leave the Kingdom.