Sixty-six Chinese nationals from 16 households have actually been apprehended for overstaying their visas following an authorities raid on a resort in Bang Lamung district, Chon Buri, on Friday.
A group of cops, migration officers and regional authorities checked out the Long Lake Hillside Resort after discovering that lots of Chinese nationals were remaining there.
The officers discovered 32 grownups, 31 youths aged listed below 15 and 3 kids from 16 households. They were holding Chinese passports and some had actually ended cards from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).
It was not understood how they had actually gotten the cards and they were not declaring refugee status, a source stated. A few of the kids had birth certificates supposedly provided by a medical facility in Bangkok.
The majority of those held had actually overstayed in the nation for less than one year and some had actually overstayed for just a month. All of them were required to the police headquarters before deportation.
Deputy nationwide cops chief Pol Gen Surachate Hakparn previously met migration and traveler cops in Pattaya to inquire to punish unlawful migrant employees and foreign nationals who have actually been remaining in the nation unlawfully.
The demand follows months of discoveries that numerous rich Chinese businesspeople have actually handled to get visas through structures or academic organisations, a number of them established with the aid of corrupt migration cops.
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