21,000 Baht Fine For Overstay

[beano2274]

And the UK.

[EarthAlien]

Good Morning;

I have read several of these stories here where people have overstayed visa's or have been confused regarding the dates that they should leave, etc. I have been told as well that the maximum fine at the airport is 20,000 baht when you overstay, but one question I have never seen answered is, "does the immigration stamp your passport with OVERSTAY or ban you from coming back?" I have lived for many years in Taiwan and they did this for people that overstayed by 6 months or more, in Singapore they are more strict indeed, but I am curious about here?

Anyone know for sure?

Cheers

CHS

Yes, they put a small stamp in your passport, but this has no effect on future travel into Thailand.

An important codicil to this is the fact that if you overstay and then front up at an immigration exit point or airport you will only have to suffer the relevant fine. However, if you get arrested and you have overstayed your visa you will go on a blacklist and then find re-entry to Thailand impossible unless you can get off that black list which I'm told by a senior Thai Govt official in the know is extremely hard to do.

Therefore, the golden rule is if you have overstayed and just preparing to pay the obligatory fine on departure just make certain that you DONT get arrested in the meantime!

[chuckd]

Tell him to be glad the punishment in Thailand is so lenient. In the US he would have been deported and banned for three years.

I hope this is a joke - There are millions of illegals currently residing in the good old USA who are quite visible and no one is deporting them.

Whether or not it was a joke, I got a laugh out of it.

If the overstayer was in the US, he would have gotten free medical care, free schooling for his children, rent subsidies from the government, food stamps, driver's license (in some states), a social security card, US citizenship for any children born in the US along with a government check for each US citizen child. Hmmm. Did I forget anything?

Oh yes, if he was somehow related to Obama, he would have been granted political asylum so he could become legal.

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world...o-1225868268901

Yeah, the US is really hard on all the illegals there.

[culicine]

We don;t know what visa this is for a start. Is it a retirement visa or an O-A. There is no 90-day reporting for the O-A as you are supposed to leave every 90 days anyway. It sounds like he has an O-A and didn't leave the country. Should have been 20K baht fine max anyway. For the O-A there is a large stamp that gives the permission to stay (for the year), and a smaller stamp that tells you to to leave after the 90-day period. The old guy probably only say the large stamp. I would hope embassies are clearer about the rules, especially for old folks who might not have all their faculties!

Nope, the Non immigrant O-A visa gives you 365 days when entering Thailand, and as such requires the holder to do 90 day address reporting.

And this is NOT mentioned anywhere in text or with a date stamp in your passport!

Either the embassy/consulate tells you, or you have to find out yourself!

Not all O visas require you to leave the country, if you have O based on marriage to a Thai and apply and get the 1 year extn, all you have to do is a 90 day address report at your allocated Imm office without leaving the country.

However, some do require you to leave the country every 90 days - like the O-visa my mother had when she came here. So unless we know the requirements of the OP's visa then its hard to give accurate information.

[jsnho]

thailand imm is more lenient because you just need to pay, in singapore, not just pay but you might end up in jail and send back home with a ban of min 1-3year and subject to write in approval before you are able to come back in.

rich and development country don't expect you to pay but reject you from coming in. they want to save the trouble.

[lopburi3]

It is impossible to give accurate information without full details and OP has posted he does not know them. This thread has gone off-topic and is closed.