Already later I read the tears of the Russian girl on the Internet, which, by arriving at Phuket, was not even released from the airport building. Customs officer, examining her passport carefully, concluded: she is in Thailand almost a year, periodically chosen to another country. In a word, the tourist is clearly not like, but it looks like an illegal worker. In short, she was suggested to quickly buy a ticket to Russia and no longer come to Thailand. Never. I barely easily reduced to let her fly away (for their own money) not to Russia, but in the neighboring Malaysia, wherever the evening is in the summer. There she sat down at the computer, immediately disassemble the crying of the help of Phuket Expatriations: "Hey, if someone flies from Phuket to Kuala Lumpur, please capture a couple of suitcases with all my things." It is clear that she lost his deposit for the house. Just as money for your bike, for which money paid for six months ahead.
Now the passport with a bunch of stamps can be caused by refusing to enter Thailand.
... Russians can be in Thailand without a visa of thirty days. Or make a tourist visa that makes it possible not to travel from the country ninety days. Well, or go to some courses (most often - linguistic), making a student visa. So, many Russians (and other expata - for example, Australians), living in the country of smiles for several years, enjoyed the right to be here thirty days just on the entrance stamp. A month later, they drove on the nearest border with Myanmar, fifteen minutes were in Thai neighbors, and then returned to the monthly stamp again. And so - how old is long.
Such minibases make trips every day under the name "Border RAS".
Thousands of companies have long been operating throughout the kingdom, which officially offer the Border-RAS service (travel to the border, its intersection and the reverse return).
It is clear that this method of long staying in the country is little similar to something absolutely legal, but Thailand's customs services did the form that there are no complaints. That is why many downshifters and downtown in Siam - such a gentle visa mode is very convenient. And suddenly - like snow on the head! - The authorities took up such overly contacted comrades.
300 kilometers from Phuket is Myanmar, where foreigners go for the next stamp in the passport.
It happened so suddenly, which caused real panic among expatoves. And indeed: you are leaving for a day-another to another country, leaving everything that has been htorated with unbearable difficulty, but to return back you can not have the opportunity.
In Myanmar, the Border Rangerians are fifteen minutes - you just have time to put a stamp about the entrance and buy cheap cigarettes and alcohol.
The Russian woman became the first injured from the twisting of the nuts. We have not yet known about this case, although, as it turned out, they returned to Phuket on the same day as that girl. Moreover, we also flew from Kuala Lumpur (there are no direct flights from Phuket to Bali). We, as we then understood, lucky, although our passports also die stamps.
Forty minutes of travel on such a boat, and you - again in Thailand.
Already at home and learning the details of the whole story, we immediately collected the Family Council: what will we do next? And they realized that in fact the first bells that not all well in the kingdom were raised back in January. Only then, why did we not give them the meanings ...
Continued ...
Read the previous history of Olga here, and where it all starts - here.