Can Someone Return To Thailand After Deportation Due To Overstay?

[momas]

Hi,

My friend has an overstay on 16 months and he had lost his passport and he went and try to clear it up paying the fine and flying out both at the airport and border, but none of them work since he didn't have the entrance stamp. He got told he needed to go to the immigration office in Bangkok where he got detained and they say he is going to be deported back to his home country. We are just wondering what happens after? Are you able to return to Thailand at all? Would he go on the black list? and also would he be able to apply for visas for other countries once they see he has been deported before?

Thanks very much and hope someone can give us some useful information!

[beano2274]

my friend had the same problem, he was in jail in a Thai prison as well, since being deported he has returned and is currently teaching here.

[momas]

my friend had the same problem, he was in jail in a Thai prison as well, since being deported he has returned and is currently teaching here.

Oh that is great to hear! How long did he wait until he went back into Thailand? and did he get a red stamp in his passport?

[moe666]

They are checking him out to make sure he has no outstanding criminal record or other things he may need to answer for. It will all depend on his record. Personally prefer they would keep this bunch out a few years before letting them return to Thailand. This sort of criminal behavior doesn't do Thailand any good nor the person envolved in iy. Yes it is criminal to overstay your visa or permission of stay.

[Lite Beer]

He should have no trouble with returning.

[beano2274]

He waited a couple of months before returning as he had to do some time in a UK Jail as well for a previous offense, I have not seen his passport so cannot say if there is a red stamp or not, but his name would have been on the computers as he was in a Thai jail and not IDC. His overstay was over 2 years, no passport no visa nothing.

[fstarbkk]

He waited a couple of months before returning as he had to do some time in a UK Jail as well for a previous offense, I have not seen his passport so cannot say if there is a red stamp or not, but his name would have been on the computers as he was in a Thai jail and not IDC. His overstay was over 2 years, no passport no visa nothing.

Not knowing the specifics of your friends case, I find it rather astonishing that a man with a conviction record in both Thailand, as well as his home country, would be welcomed back and wind up as a teacher of all things. Also, staying without permission for 2 years would not be considered trivial in most countries. I doubt it would work as well, if the situation were reversed and the person in question was a Thai trying to return to England.

[jimmybkk]

A UK friend of mine got caught with a non-legit visa from some visa shop in Pattaya. I guess without a valid visa he was technically on overstay. He was deported, touched down at Heathrow, wandered around the ticket offices and got himself on the first flight he could find back to Thailand. Probably arrived back less than 36 hours after he left. Because it was the UK and he's British there were no UK entry/exit stamps. He was wondering if he could've got away with, for example, buying a flight BKK-LHR via Hong Kong, exiting at Hong Kong telling them he was cancelling the onward leg, and getting a flight back from there...

[noob7]

He waited a couple of months before returning as he had to do some time in a UK Jail as well for a previous offense, I have not seen his passport so cannot say if there is a red stamp or not, but his name would have been on the computers as he was in a Thai jail and not IDC. His overstay was over 2 years, no passport no visa nothing.

Do you know, if he has a wp?

And is the name in his actual passport the same, as it was, before deporting him?

[beano2274]

Name in old and new passport the same, as he had to get it done from the Embassy here.

[lopburi3]

Nonsense unhelpful posts and replies removed.

[Pormax]

It seems to take a lot to stop one from re-entering Thailand after being deported.

I know a young Malay guy who stayed here for 5 years then needed to go back home.

Spent about 5 days in jail until family/friends paid some money then was deported and told he could not come back for 5 years.

He was back in Thaioland within 3 months.

Maybe as in many cases, money talks!

[Mario2008]

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[momas]

Thanks very much! I will post again once I know what happened with him

[skills32]

A UK friend of mine got caught with a non-legit visa from some visa shop in Pattaya. I guess without a valid visa he was technically on overstay. He was deported, touched down at Heathrow, wandered around the ticket offices and got himself on the first flight he could find back to Thailand. Probably arrived back less than 36 hours after he left. Because it was the UK and he's British there were no UK entry/exit stamps. He was wondering if he could've got away with, for example, buying a flight BKK-LHR via Hong Kong, exiting at Hong Kong telling them he was cancelling the onward leg, and getting a flight back from there...

The answer is yes. Had a friend from UK in exactly the same circumstances only he stopped off in Dubai and came straight back.

A couple of years later he got eye cancer and went back to UK and died.

Lesson; if you wake up one morning and you are blind in one eye don't spend the next 6 months going from Dr to Dr here, get to a cancer specialist quickly.

[lopburi3]

Another off-topic post removed - this thread is not about teachers.

[visarunner]

Name in old and new passport the same, as he had to get it done from the Embassy here.

If he has done time in Thailand he should be on the blacklist.

[visarunner]

A UK friend of mine got caught with a non-legit visa from some visa shop in Pattaya. I guess without a valid visa he was technically on overstay. He was deported, touched down at Heathrow, wandered around the ticket offices and got himself on the first flight he could find back to Thailand. Probably arrived back less than 36 hours after he left. Because it was the UK and he's British there were no UK entry/exit stamps. He was wondering if he could've got away with, for example, buying a flight BKK-LHR via Hong Kong, exiting at Hong Kong telling them he was cancelling the onward leg, and getting a flight back from there...

Thai Immigration insist on you buying a ticket to your home country on a direct flight.

[Mario2008]

A UK friend of mine got caught with a non-legit visa from some visa shop in Pattaya. I guess without a valid visa he was technically on overstay. He was deported, touched down at Heathrow, wandered around the ticket offices and got himself on the first flight he could find back to Thailand. Probably arrived back less than 36 hours after he left. Because it was the UK and he's British there were no UK entry/exit stamps. He was wondering if he could've got away with, for example, buying a flight BKK-LHR via Hong Kong, exiting at Hong Kong telling them he was cancelling the onward leg, and getting a flight back from there...

He was lucky then that he wasn't prosecuted. Immigration takes fake stamps very seriously and normally you don't get away with a fine but can expect going to court and getting a jail sentence. As a result he would have been blacklisted too.

[Travel2003]

Interesting.

So illegal immigrants, or Illegal aliens as some western countries call them, can actually legally return to this country, after deportation?

[beano2274]

Name in old and new passport the same, as he had to get it done from the Embassy here.

If he has done time in Thailand he should be on the blacklist.

maybe he did the time in the jail as IDC was full, but let me tell you he is back in Thailand, that is a definite.

[saraclue]

after being deported, i supposed that the person can return to Thailand but your friend should contact a Thai embassy outside of Thailand to inquire whether he should return.