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As the title of this video suggests, we are discussing voluntary surrender if you will, sort of akin in an American Immigration context to voluntary departure, but what we are talking about here is Thai Immigration. 

I thought about making this video after reading a recent article from the Phuket News, that is thephuketnews.com, the article is titled: Ukrainian man arrested at Phuket airport, charged for 114 days of overstay. Quoting directly: "Foreigners who voluntarily surrender for overstaying receive relatively lenient punishments. In addition to the daily fine," and for those who are unaware of that, we discussed that in another video made contemporaneously with this one, but you are looking at 500 Baht a day in terms of the fine; it caps out at 20,000 Baht. "In addition to the daily fine, those who surrender for an overstay of more than 90 days but less than one year will be deported and blacklisted for one year." So the thing to bear in mind is that less than 90 days there is not a blacklisting. 

Now you have got to bear in mind though, that is if you overstay less than 90 days but you get to the airport and you check out of your own volition, you will be fined, the  overstay will be noted but you are not necessarily blacklisted; that is for 90 days or less. That said, if you are apprehended by Thai Police, arrested, whatever and they determine that you are in overstay as part of their interaction with you, you can then be deported and even one day of overstay, if you are apprehended in Thailand, can result in a five year ban. So again you need to keep this sort of in mind because again yes blacklisting begins at 90 days or more, but even during that interval if you are apprehended, you could end up in a position where you are not only detained here in Thailand, and as we discussed in other videos in theory they could also imprison you for two years in and of itself but that is pretty rare, in fact I never seen that happen, but they are usually wanting to deport and Blacklist. Again even within that 90 day period, if you are apprehended in Thailand you could be blacklisted for 5 years even though you are under the 90-day mark of overstay here in the Kingdom of Thailand.