will you get banned from re-entering thailand if you overstay your visa for 2 months?

In theory not, provided you make it to the airport.....

Depends on what else you've done...

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• If you surrender at the airport you won't get banned. When the IO at passport control sees you have an overstay you'll be taken to the overstay desk to pay the 20,000 baht fine. They will stamp your passport showing the 60 day overstay and fine paid.
• If you get caught before getting to the airport you could be arrested, detained, prosecuted, fined, deported and banned for 5 years.

Wrong place to ask or post this sort of topic you bad boy. Just go to airport and put your hands up and take the consiquences nobody on here knows if you will get banned or not. But you just open yourself up to abuse from the hang em brigade.

2 hours ago, elviajero said:

• If you surrender at the airport you won't get banned. When the IO at passport control sees you have an overstay you'll be taken to the overstay desk to pay the 20,000 baht fine. They will stamp your passport showing the 60 day overstay and fine paid.
• If you get caught before getting to the airport you could be arrested, detained, prosecuted, fined, deported and banned for 5 years.

 

Does an overstayer actually have to surrender to immigration at an airport? Can he not go to a local immigration office and surrender there?

Do NOT go to ANY Immigration office, go straight to any international airport or land crossings to go OUT of Thailand

Edited September 28, 20169 yr by Jip66

3 minutes ago, Xircal said:

Does an overstayer actually have to surrender to immigration at an airport? Can he not go to a local immigration office and surrender there?

 

The Immigration website was telling people to surrender at border points and as far as I know that still applies. So technically, no, they can surrender at land and seaports too. 

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4. If you have already overstayed beyond your permitted date before the order’s enforced date (20 March 2016), you may surrender to the authorities at the Immigration Checkpoint (land border, seaport, and airport). You must pay a fine of 500/day, but not exceeding 20,000 baht before you are allowed to leave the Kingdom of Thailand.

Source: http://www.immigration.go.th > More details

 

 

An overstayer could surrender at an Immigration Office, but I am almost certain they would be detained until flight time. Whether or not they would prosecute and ban someone under those circumstances is unknown. I wouldn't recommend anyone tries to find out and it is best to do it at the border.

12 minutes ago, Xircal said:

 

Does an overstayer actually have to surrender to immigration at an airport? Can he not go to a local immigration office and surrender there?

Going to an immigration office would likely result in beubg taken to the detention center and being deported.

Leaving from the airport is the safest way to do it.

9 hours ago, Xircal said:

 

Does an overstayer actually have to surrender to immigration at an airport? Can he not go to a local immigration office and surrender there?

 

The complication is that a local immigration office cannot just collect the fine of 500 Baht per day, maximum 20,000 Baht and let him walk out to continue his overstay. It will have to lock him up in the Immigration Detention Centre (IDC), present him in court for sentencing and deportation order, then back to IDC until the court-ordered penalty, usually only a fine, has been paid and an airline ticket for a flight to the home country is produced. Finally, transportation to the airport under police guard and handing over to the flight captain. Additionally, a ban from entering Thailand again for a specific period is at the discretion of immigration.

Surendering at a land border is not advisable. There are immigration checkpoints before borders where officers will board your buss and check passports and remove overstayers.

12 hours ago, chipstack said:

Surendering at a land border is not advisable. There are immigration checkpoints before borders where officers will board your buss and check passports and remove overstayers.

 

Yes I've had that happen to me too actually. I was on a bus heading east to Sakaeo when the vehicle pulled over to a layby and three police officers boarded to check IDs. I'd only just arrived in the country at the time so it wasn't a problem for me.

13 hours ago, Maestro said:

 

The complication is that a local immigration office cannot just collect the fine of 500 Baht per day, maximum 20,000 Baht and let him walk out to continue his overstay. It will have to lock him up in the Immigration Detention Centre (IDC), present him in court for sentencing and deportation order, then back to IDC until the court-ordered penalty, usually only a fine, has been paid and an airline ticket for a flight to the home country is produced. Finally, transportation to the airport under police guard and handing over to the flight captain. Additionally, a ban from entering Thailand again for a specific period is at the discretion of immigration.

 

I was thinking along the lines that by admitting guilt so to speak by presenting yourself to immigration rather than risk being collared on your way to the airport was a better option. But from what you've said it looks like the trip to the airport is the better of the two since he might just make it to the terminal.

Some advice for anybody travelling to Ranong that is already on overstay. Due to the problems in the south, there are a lot of stop and checks in that area.

Listen to Joe and others who know. Fly out! I would even say make sure you clear immigration at Bangkok airport where they are busy, and will only throw the book at you if you are clearly way out of line.