Cleared 4 year overstay this month. Returned without problems.

[hdkane]

I have to admit that a lengthy overstay seemingly has quite a few advantages. Still, I'm here legally, and it seems I am stopped about once every 2 months by the police who pull over the taxi or van transporting me. The last time, the police escorted me out of the vehicle and went through my passport and shoulder bag pretty thoroughly. I was released after five minutes or so, but the situation truly reinforces how vulnerable farangs are at the hands of police (especially during the current martial law). I would not want to risk any violation of immigration law.

[jacky54]

Why do you want to 'share this'? are you proud of flouting Thai law, or trying to encourage others to do the same? IMO you should have been refused re entry.

Edited August 26, 2014 by jacky54

[Mario2008]

Is there any confirmation of anyone actually being banned re-entry to Thailand following an overstay ?

The rules are not in force yet.

[ubonjoe]

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Is there any confirmation of anyone actually being banned re-entry to Thailand following an overstay ?

The rules are not in force yet.

And the rules will be enforced from August 29th, correct?

No they will not be. The 29th has no significance for anything other than a new police order going into effect.

The new overstay rules have not been approved yet. I think it will be after the cabinet is formed.

[doobeedoobee]

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Edited August 26, 2014 by doobeedoobee

[slipperylobster]

4 years of dodging checkpoints and running out the back door....

Jeez...I cannot imagine. And then to get away with it at the end. You must really dislike filling out forms and standing in line!

[Norrad]

4 years is not that long. I just met a woman on Koh Phangan who admitted to being on over 20+ years overstay. She is married to a Thai and says she just doesn't bother with it. She still goes out in public and even helps her husband in his shop and market stall on Friday evenings.

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[mika911]

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Is there any confirmation of anyone actually being banned re-entry to Thailand following an overstay ?

The rules are not in force yet.

And the rules will be enforced from August 29th, correct?

No they will not be. The 29th has no significance for anything other than a new police order going into effect.

The new overstay rules have not been approved yet. I think it will be after the cabinet is formed.

And is there a definitive date as to when that will happen ?

[joedot]

i have so many stamps in my passport it takes the border guard 5 minutes to even find my current visa. And that's his job. I would imagine it can't be that easy for a hotel clerk or a policeman in some random village to find out if you have a current visa or not. Unless they are really determined to know.

[jcisco]

Oh put the captain obvious suits away, and quit it with the "oh that was ignorant" and pressing the obvious points regarding the appropriateness of someones failure to comply with the law. It is so over the top annoying and it amazes me to no end that it seems that Visas and compliance are such an amazing, valuable and covetable grace. it is nothing more special than perhaps a drivers license or a bank term deposit, get over it please.

Though for the interest of it only, at what age did you receive a foreign work permit and is Thailand the first country that you have resided outside of your own or an early age immigration hop.

Anyways, the point being, this site has a section regarding visa's and I dare say this site may of found its inception in providing information regarding them. Now to be a community that is constructive and helpful, when someone reports their success in becoming compliant, resist the urge to take that captain obvious suit and fly up to your pedestal. You aren't being constructive, you are not being helpful, you are not providing insight, assistance etc etc, however you end up coming accross like someones mother giving a lecture after the fact.

So, have at it guys, I await the regular dose of flawed logic and electrons wasted in search of a post with an intended outcome other than to stream emotion to electrons. Try giving a bit to the community, by being supportive, as it is most likely to result in a positive groundswell of people rectifying and visa issues they have. Rather than acting like most and shying away from confrontation or denigration real or imagined and letting their issues get more complicated, be constructive and quit it with the presumptuous and righteous attitudes and everything in between.

Oh and quit it with the oh ban them string them up, live and let live, seriously wake up to yourselves, get some perspective on what you are actually saying,

/Rant off, eject -> airlock | space | I cannot hear you

[jcisco]

welcome back!

4 years, only 20,000 baht, thats what i call a bargain

and people here are advertising the elite card , just 20 times more expensive

you forgot the cost to so many because of this crackdown that he and his fellow scofflaws have encouraged.

bad, bad, bad OP !

On a more serious note, when you start to blame someone else for your own misery. So they might have, no real solution to your trouble....(old sayin in my country)

ps: thailand seems to shoot on their foot, dont follow their acts

no trouble here. except the fact that I cant understand much of what you try to pass off as English.

I applied the English is the posters second language filter and moved to the next post.

[MilesofSmiles]

What about the new blacklisting for overstay rules ?

[ubonjoe]

What about the new blacklisting for overstay rules ?

They have not been approved yet.

I think they are waiting for cabinet approval because they are probably being done as a ministerial regulation.

[mika911]

What about the new blacklisting for overstay rules ?

They have not been approved yet.

I think they are waiting for cabinet approval because they are probably being done as a ministerial regulation.

@UbonJoe -what do you think is the possible timeframe on the cabinet approving them ??--- and would there be a specific date eg "as from 1-Oct " etc as to when the new rules would be applied ??

With previous immigration rules/changes was it done this way do you know ?

[ubonjoe]

What about the new blacklisting for overstay rules ?

They have not been approved yet.

I think they are waiting for cabinet approval because they are probably being done as a ministerial regulation.

@UbonJoe -what do you think is the possible timeframe on the cabinet approving them ??--- and would there be a specific date eg "as from 1-Oct " etc as to when the new rules would be applied ??

With previous immigration rules/changes was it done this way do you know ?

I would not even venture a guess on how long it could be before they are approved.

There should be an announcement and it will more than likely have an effective date.

[Roelf]

You truly are the high end visitor that Thailand is aiming for, notwithstanding you total disregard for the law, your seemingly blahse (can not find the acute) attitude to a 4 year overstay.....................oh yeh, you are the cream of the crop................oops, sorry, meant to say you are the crud of the curd, and a very large part of the reason (probably) that the new stricter adherence to the rules has come about. Congratulations.............stroker !

[Roelf]

From your reaction to this subject I assume it is safe to say that you are the kind of person that reports himself to a police station immediately, when you catch yourself speeding and you pay any taxes (plus penalties) the moment you notice that you forgot to report some income.

Very laudable indeed, congratulations.

The OP is not that kind of person. However, he has over the years realized, that Thailand has a chaotic, utterly ridiculous system to protect something that is not protected at all, whatever it is the system attempts to protect.

From reading many of these threads it is clear to me that many decent farangs are being jerked around by having to do visa runs, line-up at immigration, and you what....... Is the country any better off with this system? I say NO.

Show me a couple of hundred thousand Thais that are unemployed as a result of Illegal Cambodian or Loatian laborers.

Count the number of Thai workers that have a job as a result of Faranf investors and compare that with a hypothetical situation if enterprising farangs could start small businesses, only limited by senseful regulations, as they can in other countries.. And don't tell me that any Thai entrepreneurs would be deprived from starting those businesses if the farangs could, because that is NOT what Thai people do.

So, OP, regardless what the law abiding speeders and tax repenters say, I am with YOU.

R.