HugoB Posted September 27, 2005 Share Posted September 27, 2005 Nobody heard or gone through a random passport control while leaving Los at Dong Muang? They take a copy of your passport together with your signature. This happened to a friend of mine last month.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
terdsak_12 Posted September 27, 2005 Share Posted September 27, 2005 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
meemiathai Posted September 27, 2005 Share Posted September 27, 2005 YES! THAT'S TRUE! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HugoB Posted September 27, 2005 Author Share Posted September 27, 2005 I dont know what means, but I find these kind of checks weird. Anyways your passports are stamped and checked in the immigration? officers desks right? So, why somebody in customs wants to take a copy of your passport and a signature!?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greer Posted September 27, 2005 Share Posted September 27, 2005 (edited) I wonder why - they have a full record of any entry and exit from the country on the immigration database anyway... [edited spelling] Edited September 27, 2005 by Greer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sriracha john Posted September 27, 2005 Share Posted September 27, 2005 I dont know what means, but I find these kind of checks weird. Anyways your passports are stamped and checked in the immigration? officers desks right? So, why somebody in customs wants to take a copy of your passport and a signature!?? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> perhaps for a credit card application?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HugoB Posted September 27, 2005 Author Share Posted September 27, 2005 (edited) I dont know what means, but I find these kind of checks weird. Anyways your passports are stamped and checked in the immigration? officers desks right? So, why somebody in customs wants to take a copy of your passport and a signature!?? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> perhaps for a credit card application?? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> For sure yeah.. NO, seriously this has happened, and they did not try to apply for a american express through custom officials Edited September 27, 2005 by HugoB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sriracha john Posted September 27, 2005 Share Posted September 27, 2005 I dont know what means, but I find these kind of checks weird. Anyways your passports are stamped and checked in the immigration? officers desks right? So, why somebody in customs wants to take a copy of your passport and a signature!?? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> perhaps for a credit card application?? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> For sure yeah.. NO, seriously this has happened, and they did not try to apply for a american express through custom officials <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Sorry... you misunderstood me. I meant the immigration/customs folks could make an application for themselves using the identification papers AND signature... they'd have everything to do it AND what better time to get a credit card then AFTER the person has left the country.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HugoB Posted September 27, 2005 Author Share Posted September 27, 2005 I dont know what means, but I find these kind of checks weird. Anyways your passports are stamped and checked in the immigration? officers desks right? So, why somebody in customs wants to take a copy of your passport and a signature!?? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> perhaps for a credit card application?? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> For sure yeah.. NO, seriously this has happened, and they did not try to apply for a american express through custom officials <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Sorry... you misunderstood me. I meant the immigration/customs folks could make an application for themselves using the identification papers AND signature... they'd have everything to do it AND what better time to get a credit card then AFTER the person has left the country.... <{POST_SNAPBACK}> That would be quite twisted from the officials Seems that theres something more in this, becourse theres no one who has been involved in a situation like this. After all I would imagine that the readers here travel quite a bit through Dong Muang. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GuestHouse Posted September 28, 2005 Share Posted September 28, 2005 Did they charge you for the photocopy? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Axel Posted September 28, 2005 Share Posted September 28, 2005 Nobody heard or gone through a random passport control while leaving Los at Dong Muang? They take a copy of your passport together with your signature. This happened to a friend of mine last month.. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Actually, I do not understand this even I passed a hundred times and more through Don Muang. You give the immigration officer your passport together with boarding pass and the departure card. They stamp your p/port, the departure card, which is than clipped to the boarding pass. That's it. Who is taking a copy of the the passport? Never heard of this before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ovenman Posted September 28, 2005 Share Posted September 28, 2005 I can't imagine why outbound immigrations would need this extra paperwork but on the other hand, I have never understood how outbound Thai immigrations takes as much time as they do clearing people who are departing Thailand. Scan the passport, look to see that the person has not overstayed, exit stamp the passport. The process should take twenty to thirty seconds tops. Watch how fast travelers clear outbound immigrations at Changi Airport sometime... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HugoB Posted September 28, 2005 Author Share Posted September 28, 2005 This happened after the immigration desk. They got pulled away by the cumstom (?) officials and were asked to show their passports. Customs copied the passports and asked their signature to the paper where the copy of their passport was printed. No questions asked, nothing else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tripperj Posted September 28, 2005 Share Posted September 28, 2005 This happened after the immigration desk. They got pulled away by the cumstom (?) officials and were asked to show their passports. Customs copied the passports and asked their signature to the paper where the copy of their passport was printed. No questions asked, nothing else. <{POST_SNAPBACK}> It's more of this anti terrorism bull sh1t, i'm from northern ireland and the last time a flew to Liverpool they asked me if they could copy my pass port and take a photo of me, i said why, they said it was an anti terrorism pollicy. I said i'm not a terrorist so no you can't. I was then told i would not be able to enter the departure lounge if i did not. i continued to argue but my plane was leaving soon so i just agreed and got on the plane. I have no idea how taking photos or copies of peoples passport will stop terrorism but thats what they said. Fortunetly they were lookinh for terrorists and not drugs smuggelers and didn't find the kilo of smack i had in my bag .......lol (just joking) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gumballl Posted September 28, 2005 Share Posted September 28, 2005 At Don Muang, electronic photos are taken of passengers upon arrival AND departure. Getting thru immigration now takes a little longer than 30 seconds. Also, my carry-on bag was hand-searched just AFTER to going thru the x-ray checkpoint at my designated departure gate/wing of Terminal 2. This was a random search... not everyone had to go thru this. The terrorists are winning... they are disrupting normal life. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
britmaveric Posted September 28, 2005 Share Posted September 28, 2005 Probably a test program of sorts. I would have asked them what this new procedure was? 9/10 times if you are polite they will readily answer any question. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phibunmike Posted September 29, 2005 Share Posted September 29, 2005 This is a bit off topic... There is a new procedure at Ubon Ratchathani: 1. Enter airport building, bag is x-rayed but no sticker applied. 2. Check in. Checkin staff want sticker on bag. 3. Go back to x-ray, x-ray again, apply sticker. 4. Check-in. This has happened several times, they won't give the sticker the first time through ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sriracha john Posted September 29, 2005 Share Posted September 29, 2005 (edited) I had forgotten that you said it was at Customs... and done after Immigration. That REALLY is odd.... why Customs? No bag search, but copy your passport AND your signature??? what's that all about? I have never heard of Immigration officers getting copies of a signature... let alone Customs... and in particular, the departures area This is getter odder the more one thinks about it. Were they in official uniforms or have badges or ID themselves as Customs officers? Geez... I really would be suspicious about this now... my earlier post was in complete jest about it being some type of fraud, but now it is actually starting to sound more plausible. They must have been up to "something," even if it was not credit card scamming... Edited September 29, 2005 by sriracha john Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thohts Posted September 30, 2005 Share Posted September 30, 2005 This is Thailand folks. That's the only explanation anyone ever needs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ice Maiden Posted September 30, 2005 Share Posted September 30, 2005 (edited) Never had this problem at Don Muang but I have had a similar problem at Amsterdam airport on the way back from Thailand. I was minding my own business and I was going into the departure lounge when a custom came up to me and asked where I'd come from. As soon as I said Bangkok he took me aside to a room called some other customs and they checked my hand luggage. They then asked for my passport and took a copy. Then if that wasn't enough they grilled me with questions for 15 mins. One of the customs said it was enough because I was only 17 but the guy that stopped me still wasn't done. They ended up letting me go though but why they did that I do not know. Edited September 30, 2005 by Ice Maiden Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astral Posted September 30, 2005 Share Posted September 30, 2005 I have never seen a customs officer on the exit side of Don Muang. Sure there is a desk, but it has never been manned/womanned when I have gone through. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ajarn_Jonesy Posted September 30, 2005 Share Posted September 30, 2005 I dont know what means, but I find these kind of checks weird. Anyways your passports are stamped and checked in the immigration? officers desks right? So, why somebody in customs wants to take a copy of your passport and a signature!?? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Have never had Customs ask for a copy of my passport...... Something smells fishy to me Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ajarn_Jonesy Posted September 30, 2005 Share Posted September 30, 2005 I dont know what means, but I find these kind of checks weird. Anyways your passports are stamped and checked in the immigration? officers desks right? So, why somebody in customs wants to take a copy of your passport and a signature!?? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> perhaps for a credit card application?? <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Get home from the airport and 2 weeks later a letter for "Hello Mr John congratulations on the purchase of your new BMW" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
penzman Posted October 1, 2005 Share Posted October 1, 2005 I used to get these random checks from an ex-girlfriend when leaving home. I left her a departure card. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lopburi3 Posted October 1, 2005 Share Posted October 1, 2005 My guess is the Customs people have a quota of checks to meet and that was just a part of it. They have the paperwork to show checks were made. And traveler was not unduly inconvenienced. Now I could see this as a security measure if immigration felt traveler might not be the person in passport but did not have enough reason to stop; as this would provide a witnessed signature they could match with both passport and exit card. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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