{"id":2545,"date":"2016-01-15T11:58:56","date_gmt":"2016-01-15T09:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/?p=2545"},"modified":"2016-01-15T11:58:56","modified_gmt":"2016-01-15T09:58:56","slug":"overstay-thailand-new-rules-march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/2545-overstay-thailand-new-rules-march","title":{"rendered":"Overstay in Thailand : new rules in March"},"content":{"rendered":"

We had already talked about it here : new immigration\u00a0rules on overstays in Thailand\u00a0will be applied\u00a0in two months. The Embassy of France in Bangkok, recalls the measures that will be applied from 20 March 2016.<\/p>\n

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From March 20, 2016, visa overstaywill be severely punished in Thailand<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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On March 20, 2016, \u00a0new rules on immigration control of foreigners in Thailand will come into force under Royal Decree No 16 of 21 December 2015.<\/p>\n

Several overtay situations\u00a0may occur.<\/p>\n

1 – Case of a stranger indicating its situation to the Thai authorities:<\/h2>\n

The overstay time exceeded more than:
– 90 days, the alien will be denied entry to the Thai territory for 1\u00a0year;
– 1 year, the alien will be denied entry to the Thai territory for 3 years;
– 3 years,\u00a0 the alien will be denied entry to the Thai territory for 5 years;
– 5 years, the alien will be denied entry to the Thai territory for\u00a010 years;<\/p>\n

2 – Cases of a foreign arrested by Thai authorities:<\/h2>\n

The alien living in overstay\u00a0since:
– Less than 1 year, will be denied entry to the Thai territory for 5 years;
– More than 1 year, will be denied entry to the Thai territory for 10 years;<\/p>\n

3 – More details:<\/h2>\n

In both cases, the deadlines are assessed as follows:
– Overstay residence time begins from the end of validity of the visa
\u00a0 and
– The length of residence ban, starts on the\u00a0date of departure from the country.<\/p>\n

These rules do not apply to foreigners leaving the country:
– Being under the age of 18;
– Before the entry into application of these new rules.<\/p>\n

But do not panic, overstaying in Thailand for\u00a0only a few days will lead to lighter consequences. It usually results in a 500 baht\u00a0fine\u00a0per overstay day but beware prison is also an option\u00a0even if it is rarely applied. Be sure to be abble to pay\u00a0the fine otherwise a short stay in prison may become a reality.<\/p>\n

In all cases it is better to carefully calculate your stay and\u00a0even get for a visa extension at the Immigration Office (it costs 1900 THB) to avoid complications. Especially with the will of the current government to be firm on the subject…<\/p>\n

Here you have all the information about visas for Thailand<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We had already talked about it here : new immigration\u00a0rules on overstays in Thailand\u00a0will be<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2545","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\/2545","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=2545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thailandee.com\/blog\/en\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}