 What happens if a traveler is arrested abroad? |
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Khanstein David Nakamura Post Count: 15 Msg: #1 276 days ago, December 6th 2007 | What commonly happens if a traveler is arrested abroad? | Are we arrested by ignoring the expiration of visa?  Jo Trouble Jo McCarthy Post Count: 1190 Msg: #2 276 days ago, December 6th 2007 | Possibly, but it would depend on the country in question I would say. Try contacting the local embassy/consulate in your own country if there is a specific case you have. They'll be able to give more relevant information. |  Ali Ali Watters Post Count: 2849 Msg: #3 276 days ago, December 6th 2007 | For VISA expiration; Usually it's a fine - travellers are mainly caught on the border - pay the fine and are let go. I imagine that if you were caught in breach of Visa at some kind of spot check far from borders with no tickets it would be a trip to the cells. | Anyone have experience of this? and want to own up to it?  John and Sylvia John Wallace & Sylvia Bowman Post Count: 77 Msg: #4 276 days ago, December 7th 2007 | I got arrested in Thailand once, many years ago, for working without a work permit. | In those days a tourist visa was only issued for a month and it was necessary to travel to Laos to renew it each month. I had run out of money in Thailand after travelling from the UK on the old hippie trail and was able to get a job teaching english and french in a local school and at Chulalungkorn University. The process of getting a work permit was slow and arduous so I began work without one. This was fine for the first couple of months but obviously I wasn't paying off the right person because on my return from Laos at the end of the third month, my passport was confiscated at the border and I was arrested. I was eventaully released - sans passport - and told to pick my passport up as I left the airport on my way out of Thailand within two days (I couldn't leave via Malaysia as they required you to have $US200 to enter the country and I didn't have it.) Had to borrow the plane fare from the NZ consulate and hi-tail it to Australia. No fine. No jail. Just a stamp in my passport - Persona Non Grata! It was 17 years before I could return. Not as exciting as when I got arrested in Nepal for gun-running but that is a different story - and I wasn't guilty. Just a case of mistaken identity. [Edited: 03:13 - John and Sylvia - formatting]  Mell Mel Fla Post Count: 3636 Msg: #5 276 days ago, December 7th 2007 | Hello Khanstein :) | I know a guy who spent a month in prison in Iran in 1968 for entering the country without a visa. Mel Number of Users: 5 | Number of Posts: 5 | |||||||||||||
