If you live in Hua Hin you might be about to get a visit from the Tourist Police

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2 hours ago, Jools said:

Maybe if they would stop shredding the useless information forms they require us to fill out, they would have a better idea of who is here and for how long. I am still amazed that there is no computer database. Why do they even have computers?

That's a valid point, but if their internet/wi-fi are anything like here in Sattahip that fail pretty frequently especially after rain sometime nothing all day while they do another bodge up job, then next rainfall same again, at that rate all the computerised info they have would be lost if they were in the process of downloading, so from our point of view all the reams of paperwork are probably worth it, until they get a more reliable system running!

[Russell17au 2,294]

3 hours ago, TVGerry said:

Well as long as they keep the riff raff out! Check all you want!

Becareful what you wish for. 555555555555555555555555555555

[seancbk 2,601]

3 hours ago, tracker1 said:

Apparently Immigration can't keep tabs on persons even with all the rigmarole everyone goes thru ! Big difference between 8,000 and 100,000 seems a bit like the Governments fiddly figures as usual

 

Depends whether the figures include people from neighbouring countries who come across to work in fields and factories, or whether it is only people from countries other that Myanmar, Laos and Cambodia.   

[electric 632]

Hope they don't turn up at lunchtime. "Sorry, you come back please when baan open. We eat kow now. Maybe 1.30pm." 

[WHYWHY 89]

Just something else to take there mind off bigger issues 

Like road toll 

Shootings 

Stabbings 

Murders 

Darts 

Card Games 

Pool 

Too many other problems

 

[salavan 513]

3 hours ago, tracker1 said:

Apparently Immigration can't keep tabs on persons even with all the rigmarole everyone goes thru ! Big difference between 8,000 and 100,000 seems a bit like the Governments fiddly figures as usual

True I would have thought with all the paper work maps ect they would know who they were and where they live

 

[DerekMarshall 173]

Tourist police can visit all they like! They have no authority to ask for or demand to see passports. Only Immigration officials can!

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Not enuf photocopies it appears.    Everybody must resubmit.

 

 

Do it sooner rather than later..

 

 

 

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3 hours ago, NCC1701A said:

i have an idea. we will use a thing called a

c o m p u t e r. can you say computer?

 

visa expired on a certain date? automatically check immigration exit records for passport number. no exit? generate list. then go to house.

look for bad guys.

 

computer 101 circa 1978.

how do you think they got the 3 pages of names mentioned above? hmmm i wonder

[watcharacters 4,499]

6 minutes ago, WHYWHY said:

Just something else to take there mind off bigger issues 

Like road toll 

Shootings 

Stabbings 

Murders 

Darts 

Card Games 

Pool 

Too many other problems

 

 

 

 

 

Jimi Hendrix  said,     "You know there are things to worry about"?

 

 

 

 

[Russell17au 2,294]

58 minutes ago, Destiny1990 said:

They still So fascinated with foreigners.people report 2-5 times a month at immigration office 

Still they need again come to our home..Probably they need to inspect the bedroom again also.Gosh.

 

Maybe, just maybe you are reading this wrong, maybe it is the overstayers on tourist visas and tourist exempt visas that do not have to report to immigration that they are looking for or the ones that have not renewed there non-imm O visa or extension

[gandalf12 4,435]

3 hours ago, Jools said:

Maybe if they would stop shredding the useless information forms they require us to fill out, they would have a better idea of who is here and for how long. I am still amazed that there is no computer database. Why do they even have computers?

To play Candy Crush on, what else would they have computers for?

[Russell17au 2,294]

2 hours ago, Thechook said:

My wife loves the concept in Australia where she doesn't have to report every 90 days and loves the freedom to work.  She was always moody in Thailand when it come to reporting time.  

Just out of interest what Australian visa is your wife on and how long did it take to get it?

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4 hours ago, webfact said:

Many of the foreigners who have overstayed their visas are thought to be hiding out in Pattaya, Phuket, Hua Hin, Koh Samui island and Bangkok, official have said.

Pattaya is next then - can't wait.

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29 minutes ago, DerekMarshall said:

Tourist police can visit all they like! They have no authority to ask for or demand to see passports. Only Immigration officials can!

I am not so sure about that,when they come here and ask for my passport i will give it to them.I am not going to tell them they have no authority,why create problems?I have nothing to hide.No need to play the fearless warrior.