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As the title of this video suggests, we are talking about the difference between denial of entry and deportation. Well what is that? Deportation is exactly what its name implies. You are being deported; you are being sort of expelled from the port. If you look at it like a bar context, it is the bouncer throwing you out of the bar. Again, that is kind of a more crude analogy, but that is what it is effectively. You are sort of being thrown out of the country. But the thing to understand is you had awful status; you were in the country legally, or in theory otherwise, actually you could be deported for being here illegally but the point being, you were admitted, even illegally, you are in the country, and you are being expelled therefrom. That's different from Denial of Entry. That's where you come to Thailand and they say, for whatever reason, we're not going to grant you entry. 

I was talking to some friends the other day and I brought up something that, again in my mind a lot of this stuff is just sort of common knowledge, but again, for people who aren't tortured with constantly living in the world of Immigration minutia, it's not common knowledge. Visas are not a right of entry to anywhere, Thailand included. What it is, is it is a travel document which allows one to travel to the nearest port of entry to that country and then request admission from their Immigration apparatus. The immigration apparatus could say no. They could say no we are not going to allow you to enter. That's Denial of Entry, different from deportation where you are talking about someone who has been expelled after already being either admitted or physically present, possibly illegally, in that jurisdiction. So understand, these are two different things and further understand, yeah, a visa in and of itself is not a guarantee of entry to any country. 

Now as a practical matter, and as we have discussed another videos, a Thai Immigration Officer specially at a checkpoint of Thai Immigration here in the country, would have to feel like that there was some sort of threat for example to natural security, public health and safety, that the person at issue had violated immigration protocol too much in the past and therefore should not be allowed to return. There would have to be a pretty good reason to not allow somebody to enter, especially someone who has gone out of their way to get a valid Visa, again as opposed to a Visa Exemption. And some countries have a visa exemption stamp which says, "hey, nationals from your country, we Thailand allow you to travel freely to us to be able to request admission”, but people can be turned away on visa exemption status. An acquaintance of mine, the other day I found out had been denied entry after having been in Thailand actually after an overstay and then after having been in Thailand on multiple frequent trips to Thailand in Visa Exemption status and basically, they said, "hey look based on your history, we are just not going to allow you to enter again." There were consequences for that even in other jurisdictions which I get into in a video I made contemporaneously with this one. 

That said, the thing to take away from this particular video is there is a difference between deportation and denial of entry. Both of them can have Immigration consequences even in other third country jurisdictions but there is a difference. One is you have come to the Port of Entry and they have said, "no we are not going to let you in". The other one is, "hey we are kicking you out".