What commonly happens if a traveler is arrested abroad?
Are we arrested by ignoring the expiration of visa?
Reply to this 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.
Reply to this 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?
Reply to this 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.
Reply to this Hello Khanstein 😊
I know a guy who spent a month in prison in Iran in 1968 for entering the country without a visa.
Mel
Reply to this Here is one TravelBlog members story about being arrested, because of going into a restricted area in China, without the ''correct'' permit.
The real face of China
I got arrested in Thailand once, many years ago, for working without a work permit.
This reminds me, of a friend of ours who was arrested and put in prison in China, for a few days, for working there without a permit.
Reply to this Which country did you get expediated from, Gen?
What had you done? Stayed beyond your visa expiry date, I presume?
Reply to this umm...it had nothing to do with visas...i actually did something really illegal (read my blog to figure it out?)
but i guess the only thing i got was a slap on the wrist and then shipped back to the us. then again, im sure i am an anomaly, and do not use my case to justify breaking the laws on foreign soil.
Reply to this My freind overstayed in Australia.She was arrested,put on the next plane to the country she arrived from and banned her from reentering for 3 years.This was over 10 years ago so things may have changed.
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