Iraqi held for overstaying visa for 15 years
published : 11 Aug 2023 at 09:22
writer: Gary Boyle
ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Piyarat Chongcharoen
An Iraqi man has been arrested in Kanchanaburi for overstaying his visa by almost 15 years.
Immigration police arrested Oday Jabbar Khudhair, 43, at a guesthouse on Thursday.
The arrest followed a complaint that a foreigner had been acting suspiciously and might have committed an immigration offence, authorities said. He had reportedly moved from another part of the country to stay in Kanchanaburi.
Immigration police went to the guesthouse where they found Mr Khudhair. His passport showed his visa had expired on Aug 21, 2008.
Mr Khudhair was charged with overstaying his visa by 5,468 days and detained.
The fine for overstaying a visa is 500 baht per day but the maximum is 20,000 baht.
For more serious cases, an overstayer will be deported and banned from re-entering Thailand for a certain period. Those overstaying for more than 5 years will be banned from entering the country for 10 years.
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Vocabulary
- commit: to do something wrong or illegal - ทำความผิด
- complaint: when someone says that something is wrong or not satisfactory - การบ่น, ข้อที่ไม่พอใจ
- deport: to send someone out of a country, usually because they do not have a legal right to be there - เนรเทศออกจากประเทศ, ส่งตัวกลับประเทศ
- expire: to come to an end or stop being in use - หมดอายุ
- fine: an amount of money that you have to pay because you have broken the law - ค่าปรับ
- immigration police: the police agency dealing with people entering and leaving the country - สำนักงานตรวจคนเข้าเมือง
- offence: a crime or illegal activity for which there is a punishment - การกระทำผิดกฎหมายหรือข้อบังคับ
- overstay: stay in a country for longer than you are allowed to stay, not leaving when your visa to stay in the country ends -
- suspiciously: in a way that makes you believe that something is wrong, dangerous or illegal - อย่างน่าสงสัย
