In a single week, 186 foreigners in Phuket, southern Thailand, were found to have overstayed their visas, Phuket Immigration reported this morning.
From April 28 – May four, 2023, a hundred and twenty cops inspected the documents of 216 foreign targets on the island underneath orders from Phuket governor Narong Wunsiew, Chief of Phuket Police Pol. Maj. Gen. Sermpan Sirikong, and Chief of Phuket Immigration Pol. Col. Thanet Sukchai.
Of the 186 found to have overstayed their visas, 182 paid their respective fines while 5 foreigners were arrested, in accordance with Phuket Immigration statistics, reviews NaewNa.
According to a Phuket Immigration infographic, police arrested one Egyptian national, one Danish national, one Burmese nationwide, and one Chinese nationwide.
Of the 182 foreigners who surrendered, 41 had been from Russia, 16 had been from Kazakhstan, 15 have been from the USA, 15 had been from China, 10 have been from the UK, and eighty five have been from elsewhere in the world.
Aside from overstaying, Phuket Immigration officers arrested a Burmese nationwide and a French nationwide for evading the immigration authorities.
Bootleg had been additionally arrested by immigration police, one for a visitors violation and three more under arrest warrants, based on Phuket Immigration.
Phuket Immigration additionally reported that between April 1 to April 30, 2023, a complete of 304,485 tourists arrived on the island and 370,807 reported the address of their accommodation to immigration as required.
While 182 foreigners paid fines for overstaying in the kingdom in Phuket in April, Phuket Immigration reported that no foreigners acquired pink or yellow playing cards last month.
Phuket Immigration launched the yellow and pink card scheme in March to fight the problem of wayward foreigners on the island. The system sees law-breaking overseas tourists deported from the kingdom after two offences..