Officers from an immigration workplace close to Bangkok have been “suspended” after a Facebook video showed an immigration official asking for cash to help “speed up his visa process”. The caption read… “This is real, such a shame, when will the cheating stop”.
“Thailand is good, foreigners get Visas to work within the country. They go to the Nonthaburi Immigration for the applying. The papers have been submitted and the officer informed the foreigner that if he needed the application to be accomplished fast then it would cost 20,000 baht. The officer then put the money in his pocket.”
“Nonthaburi Immigration should cease cheating the nation and foreigners”.
Immigration officers now say they’ve arrange an investigating committee to look into the incident involving the 2 Nonthaburi Immigration officers. Ready noted that, if the two officers are shown to be responsible then they will be dealt “disciplinary actions”.
“The people must be succesful of depend on the police and officials must not act like thieves by utilizing their energy within the wrong method.”
The present situation, regardless of the visa amenities, has put a lot of foreigners in difficult situations, with their visas lapsing, some unable to return residence, shedding their supply of income in Thailand, or worrying about possibly overstaying their visas.
The Thaiger has received a variety of anecdotal complaints about related incidents the place immigration officers have requested for a financial providing in return for much less paperwork and issues at the immigration offices round Thailand..