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As the title of this video suggests, we are discussing blacklisting in Thailand; I haven’t done a video on the Blacklist in a while. It is worth pointing out, look, if you overstay in Thailand by even a day and are arrested in Thailand, that's an immediate five-year blacklisting. If you overstay by 90 days but you leave the country, you end up with a 90-day blacklisting and blacklisting goes up from there. So basically, the Blacklist is a ban from returning based on one's prior immigration history or criminal history in Thailand.

I initially thought of making this video after reading a recent article from The Phuket News, that is thephuketnews.com, the article is titled: Tourists pay price for public sex antics. I made another video for contemporaneously with this one where I get into the broad strokes of what this article is about which is apparently a lot foreigners like to come over here and engage in sexual activity in public, and it's causing them to get serious criminal consequences as is the case in this situation. Quoting directly: "The warning comes as a 23-year-old Russian streamer was handed down a jail sentence, deported and banned from reentering Thailand for 99 years after filming himself having sex in the back of a speeding pickup truck on a public road in Phuket, in a case late last year that officials condemned as a "gross violation of local laws and moral norms". I urge those who are watching this video, if you want to get into the details of that article, go check it out on thephuketnews.com. 

But that said, the reason for the video is to reiterate the fact that yes, it is not only possible to be blacklisted from Thailand, but it is possible to be blacklisted effectively for life. The longest blacklisting that can be put in which it is my understanding, purely because there's a drop-down box in the online system for putting someone on The Blacklist and it just maxes out at 99 years; it doesn't say for life, it just says 99 years. Now presumably, if you're older than maybe a decade old, 99 years is effectively a lifetime ban. The other thing to bear in mind, as I have discussed in other videos, there is sort of a gray list. Even if you are blacklisted for a temporary period of time, your name remains red flagged in the system so they see that you previously were blacklisted; that can have ramifications for people trying to re-enter the country thereafter. So again, lifetime blacklisting is not only possible, it's very much possible depending on the underlying facts in a given case, as in this case it was deemed to be such a “gross violation of local laws and moral norms" that they banned this person effectively for life. 

So yes, very possible to get a 99-year blacklisting. I have to admit, in circumstances like that, I can't see where you would be able to get any type of waiver to overcome it and be able to possibly get back in the country. At a certain point, Thai Immigration authorities just decide "hey this person just shouldn't come back at all" and a 99-year blacklisting is the effective, is what they labeled that determination as, when it comes to immigration matters here in the Kingdom of Thailand.