Immigration cops arrested an Iraqi man within the central province of Kanchanaburi today after virtually 15 years of overstaying in Thailand. As part of a concerted effort to root out illegal immigrants throughout the country, Thai authorities, led by the Royal Thai Police and Immigration Bureau, meticulously investigated circumstances in every province.
Big led to the invention of the Iraqi man, identified as 43 yr old Oday Jabbar Khudhair, who had been concealing himself in a visitor home within Kanchanaburi.
Kanchanaburi Provincial Immigration Officers swooped at 11am, effectively arresting Khudhair. Records present that he initially entered Thailand on May 24, 2008, underneath a Non-Immigrant Visa (Non-B), permitting him till August 21 of the same yr. However, Khudhair blatantly disregarded the stipulations and evaded capture.
Initially residing in other provinces, Khudhair adopted a nomadic sample, flitting from one locale to a different until in the end settling in Kanchanaburi. This calculated evasion led to his overstay of 5,468 days, practically 15 years.
Khudhair now faces expenses beneath Section eighty one of the Immigration Act, specifically for residing within the nation after the stipulated permission had lapsed. This offence carries potential penalties of imprisonment for as much as two years, coupled with a fine reaching 20,000 baht. Following his sentencing, Khudhair will be subject to deportation from Thailand.
Interestingly, earlier this year, one other Iraqi man’s overstay got here to mild when he was apprehended in Pattaya. Shockingly, he reportedly turned pale and fainted upon sighting the police at his residence.
Comparatively, Khudhair’s case might be one of the prolonged overstays so far. In recent years, cases of significant overstays included a Hungarian woman detained in Koh Samui for exceeding her visa by a decade, a Chinese man discovered guilty of a seven-year overstay in 2022, and a British man arrested this 12 months after an 11-year overstay..