OK, it's a LONG story and I really don't need to hear lectures about how I should NOT have overstayed as I seriously had absolutely no choice! The US Embassy revoked my passport 11 + years ago and punched holes in it. They said my ex-wife (whose father is a mufti-millionaire) posted a child support complaint (of which we had no child support agreement) - and there was some new law that allows states to revoke passports of fathers who have fallen in arrears of their child support payments. I was neither notified of the child support case or the filing for the revocation of the passport and never given any chance to give my side of the story. The embassy then issued me a 3 month temporary visa and ordered me to buy a ticket and return to the USA. Not having a 'proper' passport nor allowance to leave the country for a Non-Immigrant B visa I was unable to work and had nowhere near the money to buy a ticket, never mind get re-settled in America. 11 years later when I finally collected sufficient funds to return to America, the embassy informed me that there was no longer Anything negative on my passport record and that I could be issued a new 10 year passport with no restrictions whatsoever! And they did just that on March 19th and mailed it to the embassy hear in Bangkok and handed it over to me, surprise, surprise! So, I've tried buying an airplane ticket to Cambodia and paying the 20,000 baht overstay fine, but they would not take it at Suvarnabhumi Airport and simply escorted me back to the ticket counter to bounce me off the flight and then instructed me to go to Immigration at Chaeng Wattana to get the visa stamp changed to my new passport. I would do so, but not only did the US Embassy official agree with me that going to Immigration would likely be problematic, but so has Every Visa Expert and Lawyer I've spoken to!! In fact "Don't go to the Immigration Dept" is pretty much the first words I hear out of everybody's mouth that I speak to!! So, does anybody know anyone who can help me fix this problem?? Any advice (other than - negative criticism) would be Greatly Appreciated!! Thanks in advance for any help that anyone can come up with!
Cheers, Branddez