Thailand’s Immigration Bureau (IB) reported a dramatic improve in circumstances of foreigners overstaying their visas, uncovering a considerable 1,272 overstayers of their latest nine-day crackdown.
High-ranking IB officers held a press convention on Friday to report the fruitful rewards of their newest crackdown on unlawful foreigners within the kingdom, reports ThaiRath.
Between May 4-13, the IB caught 1,272 foreigners residing in Thailand with an expired visa. Comparatively, the IB found 785 cases of foreigners overstayers in their previous crackdown which spanned the entire thing of October and November 2022.
Despite cracking down for 9 days quite than two months, circumstances of overstaying elevated by over 62%. The IB attributes this stunning jump to their improved method. The data reflects the IB’s success in streamlining its strategies in tackling the seemingly perennial concern of foreigners residing in Thailand illegally.
Be the first might be getting more environment friendly in catching unlawful foreigners, however the total aim is to deter them. The IB says they have started implementing stricter measures to deter potential overstayers, such as banning them from re-entering Thailand for sure durations relying on the severity of their overstay.
Last month, Phuket Immigration ran a week-long crackdown that found a total of 186 foreigners overstaying their visas on the island.
From April 28 – May 4, 2023, 120 law enforcement officials inspected the documents of 216 foreign targets on the island beneath orders from Phuket governor Narong Wunsiew, Chief of Phuket Police Pol. Maj. Gen. Track record , and Chief of Phuket Immigration Pol. Col. Thanet Sukchai.
Of the 186 discovered to have overstayed their visas, 182 paid their respective fines whereas 5 foreigners had been arrested, based on Phuket Immigration statistics, reports NaewNa.
Police arrested one Egyptian national, one Danish national, one Burmese nationwide, and one Chinese national. Of the 182 foreigners who surrendered, 41 had been from Russia, 16 were from Kazakhstan, 15 were from the USA, 15 have been from China, 10 had been from the UK, and 85 were from elsewhere in the world.
Aside from overstaying, Phuket Immigration officers arrested a Burmese nationwide and a French national for evading the immigration authorities..