No nonsense arrested an Iraqi man in 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.
The meticulous operation led to the invention of the Iraqi man, identified as forty three year old Oday Jabbar Khudhair, who had been concealing himself in a guest house 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), allowing him until August 21 of the identical yr. However, Khudhair blatantly disregarded the stipulations and evaded seize.
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, nearly 15 years.
Khudhair now faces charges beneath Section eighty one of the Immigration Act, particularly for residing in the country after the stipulated permission had lapsed. This offence carries potential penalties of imprisonment for as much as two years, coupled with a fantastic reaching 20,000 baht. Following his sentencing, Khudhair shall be topic to deportation from Thailand.
Interestingly, earlier this 12 months, one other Iraqi man’s overstay got here to gentle when he was apprehended in Pattaya. Shockingly, he reportedly turned pale and fainted upon sighting the police at his residence.
Comparatively, Khudhair’s case may well be some of the extended overstays so far. In latest years, circumstances of significant overstays included a Hungarian girl detained in Koh Samui for exceeding her visa by a decade, a Chinese man discovered responsible of a seven-year overstay in 2022, and a British man arrested this year after an 11-year overstay..