THE Thailand Immigration Bureau has announced plans to crackdown on foreigners overstaying their visa that will take effect from March 2016. This week Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha approved the Thai bureau’s proposal of November 27 to ban overstaysers from re-entering the country depending on the length they had overstayed, and if they turned themselves in or were arrested. Bangkok Post: For cases of surrender, those who overstay their visa by up to one year will receive a one-year re-entry ban, and for more than one year they will be banned from re-entering Thailand for three years. Those with more than three years’ overstay will blacklisted for five years. Excessive overstay of five years or more will result in a re-entry ban of 10 years. In cases of arrest, those who overstay their visas by up to one year will be banned from re-entering Thailand for five years and those with more than one year’s overstay period will be blacklisted for 10 years. Bureau chief Pol Lt Gen Nathathorn Prausoontorn said he expected a large number of foreigners would turn themselves In. Thailand to blacklist foreigners who overstay their visa - Asian Correspondent
