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Home » News from Thailand » Research into 8.000 foreigners with visa overstay
Research into 8.000 foreigners with visa overstay
Thai authorities have been instructed by Deputy Prime Minister Prawit to investigate XNUMX foreigners whose visas have expired or who have entered the country illegally.
The police suspect that this group of foreigners includes members of international criminal organizations. These kinds of illegal immigrants are bad for Thailand's economy and damage its reputation.
The investigation also focuses on influential Thais and officials who have supported various forms of illegal activities. Their assets are frozen.
Source: Bangkok Post
I understand that people can know how many foreigners have not officially left the country and may therefore have a visa overstay.
I don't understand how they got hold of a number of people who entered the country illegally. That can only be an estimate.
I think Deputy Prime Minister Prawit doesn't know how many there are either, but wants to do 8000 inquiries to get more clarity.
Well,
Personally I think there are many more, especially “older cases” people who have been living in Thailand for many years and who have a Police or Immigration “hand” over their heads (read pay Thea money) Now that the military is getting stricter, let these police or immigration officers suffocate these people, or have never heard of them, to save their own skin.
The result is that these foreigners will be arrested and deported from Thailand en masse for a long time, with all the associated dramas, think of fathers of children. In Europe they talk about family reunification and in Thailand about family separations for a very long time.
You can of course say self-defense, but that corruption was in Thailand for a very long time and everyone was used to it, so until now.
Good luck to everyone who has a sword hanging over their head.
Gerrit
When the new "overstay rules" came out on November 15, 2015, there was already a warning to comply.
This was possible until March 20, 2016. In that case, people only risked a financial fine (max 20 Baht) without an entry ban being linked to it.
Meanwhile we are two years further.....
It would have been better to arrange itself instead of paying “Teamoney” and then one does not have to worry about “dramas”.
It cannot be too difficult to list the foreigners who have not fulfilled the conditions of their visa, i.e. have left the country on time, failed to complete the 90-day notification or have not extended their visa. Of all these people one has departure cards, photos and often also copies of a passport; not to mention an address where one would stay in Thailand.
It is much more difficult to estimate the number of illegal immigrants. Despite claims by the Immigration Service (e.g. “the owners of massage house Victoria Secret are still in Thailand because they have not officially left the country”; the same claim was made by Boss Vorayudth, Phra Dhammachayo, Yingluck and other Thais who were were wanted or convicted of crimes) it is quite easy to enter and leave Thailand. The Cambodian maid in my condo does this about twice a year. You don't have to pay large amounts for this and the police don't have to be 'involved' either. There is a regular service across the river.
Another aspect is that Thailand officially has no refugees. Anyone who flees their homeland for personal or political reasons and enters Thailand is by definition illegal. For decades, there have been several villages along the border where “illegal foreigners” live, work, are born and die. This cannot be new to the government.
It is also a waste of energy and time to track down ALL foreigners. It is better to draw up a perpetrator profile of (potential) criminals and start working with it. I haven't really checked, but I think most of the foreign criminals caught by the Thai police had valid visas and/or fake passports. Foreigners with an overstay of years are in violation, but not seasoned criminals, I think.
A few weeks ago there was a good background piece on Prachathai about those disenfranchised illegal immigrants/refugees in the border region. Their own lives are full of hardships but they hope that their children will turn out well.
“The winding road of life: Lives of migrant workers on Thai-Myanmar border”:
https://prachatai.com/english/node/7545