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This is not that unusual. It happens to me every time I forget to hand over my Dutch residence permit with my (non-EU) passport when leaving the Schengen zone f
by overstay 4y ago
This is not that unusual. It happens to me every time I forget to hand over my Dutch residence permit with my (non-EU) passport when leaving the Schengen zone from Schiphol. The border guards are absolutely meticulous about flipping through the passport looking at the entry and exit dates in the hopes of catching a potential overstayer. They're almost always super disappointed when I realize what's happening and hand over the card.
The threat isn't "we're going to keep you here because you weren't allowed to be here," it's "we see you have overstayed your visa and now we're going to make sure you catch your flight out and ban you from ever coming back."
- stubish 4y agoThailand checks on exit for overstay requiring you to pay overstay fines on the spot in cash. Ostensibly to stop illegal workers, because the best way to stop that is apparently done by the immigration department, by making work visas hard to qualify for and a bureaucratic nightmare to actually get, and checking tourist visas on exit after the illegal work has been done and enough money to cover the fines earned. Because the Labor department has no enforcement force.