Passport control at Bangkok ( confirmed report )

[marcofunny]

for the first time since 2011 I was stopped on a road junction at Police checkpoint near Latprao Bangkok (I was riding in a taxi) and they asked me where I was going, then they asked for my passport when I replied in thai and went to my pocket they said ok ok, this happened in the afternoon today around 1PM, note that the last time cops asked for my passport was on 2011 at Ekkamai road outside the clubs, this is just to report that it seems that police are taking this crackdown on over-stayers very seriously.

[jacksam]

So they did not look at your pp.?

Because you could speak Thai?

[KhaoNiaw]

But they didn't check your passport??

[marcofunny]

So they did not look at your pp.?

Because you could speak Thai?

I had a laminated colored photocopy of my Passport and also a copy on my smartphone, I m someone who takes taxi trips very frequently almost 3-2 time daily, I was never controlled during the last 4 years even at night times, this is the first time EVER to be controlled in the AFTERNOON !!

[marcofunny]

But they didn't check your passport??

the guy asked me first for the passport, but his colleague asked him to back off after he noticed my Thai level, I saw they were conducting serious checking on every vehicle for foreigners.

[jacksam]

No offence OP but if your implying that pp checks are a new deal to do with overstay rules , your drawing a very long bow. Also by sound of it your pp was not even checked.

Everyone runs risk of pp check. No problem unless you have something to hide

[marcofunny]

No offence OP but if your implying that pp checks are a new deal to do with overstay rules , your drawing a very long bow. Also by sound of it your pp was not even checked.

Everyone runs risk of pp check. No problem unless you have something to hide

this is how happened the first police officer spoke to me in English ( passport ) when I opened my briefcase the other officer asked me in (Thai), where I was going so I replied (in Thai) to my meeting around this area, then he nodded to the other officer, the last time I was controlled ever in Thailand was back in 2011.

[KhaoNiaw]

But they didn't check your passport??

the guy asked me first for the passport, but his colleague asked him to back off after he noticed my Thai level, I saw they were conducting serious checking on every vehicle for foreigners.

Surely a long-term overstayer could be expected to have a good level of Thai? Pretty poor effort on their part if that's what they were really about.

[jacksam]

But they didn't check your passport??

the guy asked me first for the passport, but his colleague asked him to back off after he noticed my Thai level, I saw they were conducting serious checking on every vehicle for foreigners.

I'm not going to start a back forth. Your basically implying you got special treatment because of your expert Thai. In fact the opposite in normally the case. The reason I'm arking up is you have linked this to new overstay rules. This is a nonsense. Recently there have been extensive pp checks at pattaya and phuket.

If everyone that had a pp check reported link to new overstay rules then maybe you might have suport

[Asiantravel]

I hope their level of checking is more consistent than the standards of checking bags by security staff at the entrance to the MRT escalators and at Central department store

[marcofunny]

But they didn't check your passport??

the guy asked me first for the passport, but his colleague asked him to back off after he noticed my Thai level, I saw they were conducting serious checking on every vehicle for foreigners.

Surely a long-term overstayer could be expected to have a good level of Thai? Pretty poor effort on their part if that's what they were really about.

Police always have the correct sixth sense, I m just not their target !!!, I know two close friends who got busted.

[marcofunny]

But they didn't check your passport??

the guy asked me first for the passport, but his colleague asked him to back off after he noticed my Thai level, I saw they were conducting serious checking on every vehicle for foreigners.

I'm not going to start a back forth. Your basically implying you got special treatment because of your expert Thai. In fact the opposite in normally the case. The reason I'm arking up is you have linked this to new overstay rules. This is a nonsense. Recently there have been extensive pp checks at pattaya and phuket.

If everyone that had a pp check reported link to new overstay rules then maybe you might have suport

Probably is my appearance, I was wearing a suit for my meeting , people wearing expensive clothes rarely get controlled

source : I used to be a security agent in an airport.

[jacksam]

But they didn't check your passport??

the guy asked me first for the passport, but his colleague asked him to back off after he noticed my Thai level, I saw they were conducting serious checking on every vehicle for foreigners.

Surely a long-term overstayer could be expected to have a good level of Thai? Pretty poor effort on their part if that's what they were really about.

Police have the correct sixth sense, I m just not their target !!!

You should be because your looking for attention. So far you have told us that you had a pp check and because your SO fluent you were let off hook. In fact pp not even checked. But at same time warn TV to be vigilant since new overstay rules. Hells bells

[lkv]

Be patient with them, they are still working on their skills.

You really can't expect them to process that if you speak Thai, you've been in Thailand for long, right?

My "chat" a few days ago:

They: Where you go? ( suspicious look)

Me: (same sort of look) Gym

They: Oooh, gym.

Do not forget jobs over here are being purchased, not gained through education.

[jacksam]

Ikv I haven't been here long. Less than 4 year. Sometimes out with tgf and run into fluent farang. They talk back and forth. Later I say....his Thai good. She say. I no understand what he talk.

Speaking Thai with police often causes more problems than it solves

[marcofunny]

Be patient with them, they are still working on their skills.

You really can't expect them to process that if you speak Thai, you've been in Thailand for long, right?

My "chat" a few days ago:

They: Where you go? ( suspicious look)

Me: (same sort of look) Gym

They: Oooh, gym.

Do not forget jobs over here are being purchased, not gained through education.

not only Thailand, 15 years ago I used to work with a security firm in an airport in the west and we had a hidden unwritten rules dictated by our superiors, ( all ethnic + poorly dressed ) people were automatically suspicious and rise red flags, my best Canadian buddy who is black get controlled almost on a weekly basis here.

[KhaoNiaw]

But they didn't check your passport??

the guy asked me first for the passport, but his colleague asked him to back off after he noticed my Thai level, I saw they were conducting serious checking on every vehicle for foreigners.

Surely a long-term overstayer could be expected to have a good level of Thai? Pretty poor effort on their part if that's what they were really about.

I know two close friends who got busted.

Today?

[marcofunny]

I know two close friends who got busted.

Today?

no, but this year, two women and they were working here as teachers, one is from an African country and the other is from the Philippines and both got deported.

[D3030]

Sounds like the opposite of taking overstay serious..

Speaking Thai and wearing a suit hardly seems like a legitimate reason to not check your passport, if that was the reason for the check point.

[steve187]

But they didn't check your passport??

the guy asked me first for the passport, but his colleague asked him to back off after he noticed my Thai level, I saw they were conducting serious checking on every vehicle for foreigners.

why would carrying a thai spirit level, stop them checking your passport.

[jacksam]

I know two close friends who got busted.

Today?

no, but this year, two women and they were working here as teachers, one is from an African country and the other is from the Philippines and both got deported.

The two examples you give are from nationals from non English native speaking countries. Why were they deported. Overstay or no work permit. Your posts have more holes than a leaking boat

[marcofunny]

the guy asked me first for the passport, but his colleague asked him to back off after he noticed my Thai level, I saw they were conducting serious checking on every vehicle for foreigners.

why would carrying a thai spirit level, stop them checking your passport.

This time it s obvious they are looking for Over-stayers only, 2 months ago while doing my 90 days reporting and for the first time in Thailand I saw an officer escorting a farang woman (Russian looking) in the van of the immigration and even my gf yelled look they are arresting Falang now, i saw that immig van in the past but they were targeting the Burmese who works around Pratunam, I ve traveled all around Thailand on roads and passed countless checkpoints no cops ever asked for my passport or visa status even when I had a traffic fine once, I had been controlled once on 2011 but I guess there were looking for clubbers under drug influence, so this is the first ever that some officer asked me for my passport on the afternoon of a Sunday.

[marcofunny]

I know two close friends who got busted.

Today?

no, but this year, two women and they were working here as teachers, one is from an African country and the other is from the Philippines and both got deported.

The two examples you give are from nationals from non English native speaking countries. Why were they deported. Overstay or no work permit. Your posts have more holes than a leaking boat

I think they had an expired tourist visas, they called me from the detention center, actually there were working for some local kindergarten school,

the first one(African) was arrested in her apartment and the second one was snitched by some jealous Thai colleague.

[Crossy]

Sunday afternoon, Lat Prao, tourists heading back from Chatuchak = Payday

Family got nicked 4 years ago, same area, same "offence".

[ubonjoe]

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[BookMan]

No offence OP but if your implying that pp checks are a new deal to do with overstay rules , your drawing a very long bow. Also by sound of it your pp was not even checked.

Everyone runs risk of pp check. No problem unless you have something to hide

this is how happened the first police officer spoke to me in English ( passport ) when I opened my briefcase the other officer asked me in (Thai), where I was going so I replied (in Thai) to my meeting around this area, then he nodded to the other officer, the last time I was controlled ever in Thailand was back in 2011.

What are in Lat prao was it?

[marcofunny]

No offence OP but if your implying that pp checks are a new deal to do with overstay rules , your drawing a very long bow. Also by sound of it your pp was not even checked.

Everyone runs risk of pp check. No problem unless you have something to hide

this is how happened the first police officer spoke to me in English ( passport ) when I opened my briefcase the other officer asked me in (Thai), where I was going so I replied (in Thai) to my meeting around this area, then he nodded to the other officer, the last time I was controlled ever in Thailand was back in 2011.

What are in Lat prao was it?

it was on 20 soi Mithuna road, it s very small side road I was heading from Latprao soi 64

[Myran]

A single occurrence hardly forms a pattern. I've been stopped and asked for passport a couple of times in the middle of the day during my years in Bangkok. If more reports of passport checks emerge, then yeah, we might have a case of heightened checks. Up until then this is just business as usual.

I stubbed my toe on the sidewalk today, but that doesn't equate to foreigners being more prone to injury than usual.

[BookMan]

No offence OP but if your implying that pp checks are a new deal to do with overstay rules , your drawing a very long bow. Also by sound of it your pp was not even checked.

Everyone runs risk of pp check. No problem unless you have something to hide

this is how happened the first police officer spoke to me in English ( passport ) when I opened my briefcase the other officer asked me in (Thai), where I was going so I replied (in Thai) to my meeting around this area, then he nodded to the other officer, the last time I was controlled ever in Thailand was back in 2011.

What are in Lat prao was it?

it was on 20 soi Mithuna road, it s very small side road I was heading from Latprao soi 64

Good to know

[Dave12345678910]

Ikv I haven't been here long. Less than 4 year. Sometimes out with tgf and run into fluent farang. They talk back and forth. Later I say....his Thai good. She say. I no understand what he talk.

Speaking Thai with police often causes more problems than it solves

Couldn't agree more. I have a friend who thinks he can speak good Thai. His Thai has got me into more trouble then good