Immigration system down - thousands of tourist arrivals/departures not recorded

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Immigration system down - thousands of tourist arrivals/departures not recorded

 

Picture: Daily News

 

BANGKOK: -- Thousands of people who arrived and left Thailand on Sunday did not have their details recorded in the immigration system.

 

Immigration officials have admitted that the PIBICS system that records information from TM 6 cards was out of operation, reports Daily News.

 

Officials are now scurrying to enter the information backlog as a spokesman has admitted the "serious" security breach.

 

The system was down nationwide on Sunday for an unspecified amount of time, the spokesman said yesterday. 

 

At Suvarnabhumi alone there were nearly 10,000 tourist details unrecorded. Some 3,200 of these were during the day and 6,400 were on an evening shift.

 

Spokesman Kritsana Patanacharoen admitted that it was a serious problem meaning that potential criminals entering the country or leaving could not be monitored. 

 

He said that the backlog details from the TM 6 cards are being entered as a matter of priority.

 

The system is now working properly again.

 

Source: Daily News

 

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[worgeordie]

System must be overloaded with all the TM28,TM30,90 Day reports,

immigration information forms,extensions,visa applications,etc,too

much information that they cannot cope ?

regards worgeordie

[gk10002000]

This has a lot of potential in a movie.  Want to get somebody or something in or out of a country?  Take the whole freaking system down for a few hours.  And target countries that are perhaps a bit less equipped to handle such outages quickly.  But it brings up the question, what actually happened?  At the airport, or check centers, were the officials unable to enter or access information?  Did they just wave people through anyway with no checks being done and no waiting lines building up?  Should they wave people through with no electronic verification or recording?  Would you expect a country to halt all immigration in and out activities for a day?  Make arrivals at the airport just stay there for a day?  That would be a lot of people in the terminal!

[Ricardo]

Presumably, as stated in the OP, they have the paper-copies of peoples' departure-cards, so no biggie really ?

 

They just have to do some data-entry, to catch up.

 

 

[madmitch]

So that's why, in this electronic age, they still make us fill in an arrival/departure card.

[Sphere]

What happened......someone posted a pic of their lunch and all terminals clicked "like" at the same time?

[gk10002000]

2 minutes ago, Ricardo said:

Presumably, as stated in the OP, they have the paper-copies of peoples' departure-cards, so no biggie really ?

 

They just have to do some data-entry, to catch up.

 

 

Maybe.  But I assume they normally use that information in real time to check on things.

[NongKhaiKid]

Quite an admission to make but I'm sure that's as far as it will go. I can't seem them ever admitting that anyone on a Stop List was permitted to enter or leave.

[NickJ]

Maybe the Real Mr Robot needed a holiday.

[scorecard]

For the IT experts. For a government activity like this and where there is the possibility of compromise of national security, do other countries have live back up / alternative systems etc? Is that possible?

[DM07]

I once did a visa run to Laos with a new passport, cause the old one got in the laundry! They didn't even look me up in their data-bank, just handed me 5 days overstay! It doesn't matter, if that system is running!


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[Wilsonandson]

Might be the actual screen or made up for the article.

Image source:-
http://www.matichon.co.th/news/335185

[greenchair]

Which leads to the question, who needed to sneak out of or into the country and for what reason. 

[PremiumLane]

16 minutes ago, alocacoc said:

That's common in Europe. Migrants doesn't get recorded. Even when they obviously enter with a fake passport. This is particularly valid if the migrants are Mulims.

 

And then you woke up? What a load of rubbish

[gravity101]

Immigration computers were down Tuesday in Phuket town. Had to come back today for a proof of address doc. For sure it's related.

[gravity101]

17 minutes ago, PremiumLane said:

 

And then you woke up? What a load of rubbish

Don't spout your hate on here. Clearly not meant for you, Original commentor 

[gravity101]

33 minutes ago, alocacoc said:

That's common in Europe. Migrants doesn't get recorded. Even when they obviously enter with a fake passport. This is particularly valid if the migrants are Mulims.

Don't spout your hate on here. Ridiculous comment. 

[Wilsonandson]

 
Perhaps Mr. Shinegra is back over for a few days.

Miss Tukki Shinegra.

[greenchair]

30 minutes ago, Wilsonandson said:

Miss Tukki Shinegra.

 

Hilarious, wouldn't surprise me. Lol 

[thedemon]

I departed Suvarnabhumi yesterday. No problem with that and didn't seem to take any longer than usual but now that I recall, no photo was taken as it usually is.

 

After clearing immigration I went to the main air-side immigration counter about something else but was told that their system was down. The officers there seemed to think it was pretty funny.

[hEaDy]

Freedom 1 - Big Brother 0

[yellowboat]

2 hours ago, greenchair said:

Which leads to the question, who needed to sneak out of or into the country and for what reason. 

People who investigate the Thai government and cross paths with the countries super criminals.

[greenchair]

6 minutes ago, yellowboat said:

People who investigate the Thai government and cross paths with the countries super criminals.

 

 

Oh 

[Suradit69]

3 hours ago, NongKhaiKid said:

Quite an admission to make but I'm sure that's as far as it will go. I can't seem them ever admitting that anyone on a Stop List was permitted to enter or leave.

 

The British certainly handled a similar situation quite well:

Quote

UK airport chaos as computer glitch cause monster queues:

Fights break out after border control IT system fails
Nationwide fault on UK Border Force computers caused severe disruption
Travellers queued for up to four hours as every British airport was affected 
Reports of fights breaking out at Gatwick among frustrated passengers

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2617136/Chaos-airports-Britain-IT-glitch-brings-immigration-passport-control-standstill.html

 

And then there was the Delta Airline chaos:

 

Quote

Delta passengers worldwide were stranded as a computer failure completely screwed up operations. The ensuing chaos provided a good look at how the robots are actually going to kill us, but also raised some good questions: how does one power outage ground an airline, 

http://bgr.com/2016/08/14/delta-finally-explained-how-one-power-outage-grounded-an-entire-airline/

[elgordo38]

4 hours ago, worgeordie said:

System must be overloaded with all the TM28,TM30,90 Day reports,

immigration information forms,extensions,visa applications,etc,too

much information that they cannot cope ?

regards worgeordie

Maybe they were hacked we would never know. 

[elgordo38]

Money spent on maintenance= a working system. 

[williamgeorgeallen]

super, i flew in on sunday and fly back out in december. one more thing that can go wrong when i leave with an attempt to charger 8 weeks overstay.good for TAT they can make a nice high guestimation on arrivals on sunday to get their figures up.

[SaintLouisBlues]

4 hours ago, madmitch said:

So that's why, in this electronic age, they still make us fill in an arrival/departure card.

Like the USA you mean?

[Inepto Cracy]

3 hours ago, greenchair said:

Which leads to the question, who needed to sneak out of or into the country and for what reason. 

Who ?

Mr T.

Think what you will. Wake up to the 2016 year, not 1920.

[PoorSucker]

4 hours ago, madmitch said:

So that's why, in this electronic age, they still make us fill in an arrival/departure card.

 

TM 6 is the arrival/departure card.

So they could not scan them, big loss.

Now they have no clue how much money you make.