{"id":1756,"date":"2014-08-04T15:00:33","date_gmt":"2014-08-04T13:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/?p=1756"},"modified":"2014-08-04T15:00:33","modified_gmt":"2014-08-04T13:00:33","slug":"should-we-be-worried-about-new-immigration-rules-in-thailand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/1756-should-we-be-worried-about-new-immigration-rules-in-thailand","title":{"rendered":"Should we be worried about new Immigration rules in Thailand ?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The answer is generally not despite rumors that next month, tourists and expats can not present their passports at any time be thrown into prison and sentenced to a fine THB20, 000. Immigration colonel says it is incorrect.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"visa-thaland\"<\/p>\n

\u201cMaking all foreigners in Thailand carry their original passports with them would be very difficult,\u201d<\/em> said police Col. Voravat Amornvivat. \u201cIt\u2019s about being reasonable and using common sense.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

A much more moderate \u00a0comment than the comments attributed to the same Voravat in an article published in the press. Neither tourists or expatriates will need to keep their passports on them at all times, added Voravat, but they must have an ID paper and be prepared to recover their original passport if requested.<\/p>\n

Immigration has tightened its sanctions with new penalties including long term entry\u00a0on Thai territory ban for those who overstay their visas.<\/p>\n

In summary, it is advisable anyway to have your\u00a0passport on you\u00a0as often as possible when traveling in Thailand, or at least to have a copy. As for the fine, it probably won’t apply, the prison sentence neither. It would be destructive to the tourism and annihilate all the\u00a0efforts to recover tourists’ confidence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The answer is generally not despite rumors that next month, tourists and expats can not<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thailand-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1756"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1758,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1756\/revisions\/1758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}