What happens if you are an overstayer caught at an international airport in Thailand?

Nov 7, 2023
a year ago
Jorge ****
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Just read about an overstayer busted at an intl airport:
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The post discusses an incident involving an overstayer being apprehended at an international airport in Thailand, with comments indicating that the individual may have voluntarily surrendered.
Garrett ***********
Sounds like he surrendered himself at the airport.
Jorge ****
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@Garrett **********
the news article does not provide other details, but consider this: if the overstayer was leaving the country, why not fine and let him/her go to the airplane? Surrendering to the IO at the airport is strange, but if the airport IO did the same as the town's local IO, he/she would normally not be detained and put in the news. Very strange.
Garrett ***********
@Jorge ***
Yeah doesn't make sense. Sounds like immigration wasn't following the rules.
Jorge ****
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@Garrett **********
or the overstayer refused to pay up. I read a few years ago an European lady refused to pay 3 days overstay at a land border and was locked up. Unfortunately, the bureaucracy did not work as it should have and she was "lost" for a number of days... in jail.
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