A few days ago I posted a video telling the story of Paul, a British citizen and someone I've known on facebook for a couple years, who was traveling in southeast Asia when he got stuck in a bad situation in Cambodia. He was traveling from Vietnam to Thailand to work at a hostel there and passed through Cambodia. When he arrived at the border between Cambodia and Thailand and tried to enter Thailand, the immigration officials told him they thought he had been in Thailand the previous year and overstayed his visa by four months. It turned out someone had stolen his identity, entered Thailand in 2018 under his name and birth date somehow, overstayed his visa by four months and then been discovered and deported. Paul hadn't been in Thailand during that time and showed that to be the case in his passport. But they accused him of trying to re-enter with a different passport, fined him $1,000, which was all the money he had on him at the time and they kicked him back to Cambodia. He had only $15 left to his name and the visa to go back into Cambodia was $30. Somehow he managed to get past immigration and go back into Cambodia without a visa.
