A Dutch nationwide was arrested in Phuket for illegally coming into and staying in Thailand, on the same day that another citizen of the Netherlands was arrested in Phuket for a similar crime.
The Immigration Office at Phuket International Airport mentioned that over the past weekend, it arrested a sixty one year outdated Dutchman. The man was apprehended on the Immigration checkpoint on the airport’s International Departure Terminal on Saturday, March 25, at round 9am. The authorities brought the man to Sakhu Police Station to face costs of coming into and staying within the country with no permit.
It is unclear how the man originally entered Thailand.
On the identical day, a 28 yr previous Dutch girl was arrested at Phuket International Airport on the weekend for entering and staying in Thailand with out permission or a visa.
The unnamed woman was taken to Sakhu Police Station to face expenses of getting into and staying in Thailand illegally. As was the case with the man, it was unclear how the lady managed to enter the kingdom.
Under Phuket Immigration’s new yellow and pink card system for unhealthy foreigners, first-time international offenders in Phuket will obtain a yellow card and repeat offenders will receive a purple card, resulting in their deportation.
Red cards void the foreigner’s visa, but for the reason that Dutch lady didn’t have a visa, her offence was nonetheless a deportable one – even if it was her first.
According to Phuket Immigration, a lot of the criminal foreigners come from Russia, France, the UK, Myanmar and Cambodia.
Should Comprehensive see success with its purple and yellow card system, the policy may be expanded to different vacationer hotspots corresponding to Pattaya, Chiang Mai, and Koh Samui – the place foreigners are additionally partial to misbehaving.
In the past few months, a quantity of foreigners have been busted in Phuket after illegally getting into and staying in Thailand.
On February 28, immigration officers busted an Indian man and a Russian man, who entered and stayed in Thailand without permits, at Phuket International Airport..