Thai officials accused of damaging Russian passports
Thai immigration officers are damaging Russian tourists' passports — vacationers complain that in airports their documents are being stapled, leaving holes and glue marks on the pages.
Consensus
- Immigration officials and hotel staff in Thailand attach documents to Russian tourists' passports using staples and glue.
- The attachments leave holes, tears, or residue on passport pages.
- Russian tourists have reported damage to their passports during travel to Thailand.
- The Russian Union of Tourism (RST) states that the practice is standard and not intentional.
- The RST denies that there are special orders or systematic targeting of Russian passports.
- Some Russian travelers have been advised to avoid attaching documents to their passports.
Points of divergence
- The damage is not limited to Thailand — incidents have also occurred in Georgia. — tg_mash
- Extreme humidity in Thailand can cause passports, especially older five-year ones, to warp, delaminate, and ink to smudge. — tg_mash
- The practice of stapling documents to passports is a longstanding standard in Thailand, used for migration cards and registration slips. — vm
- Individual staff members may be careless, but this does not constitute a systemic issue. — vm
- There is no evidence of deliberate harm to Russian passports or special directives targeting them. — vm
Coverage (7 sources)
- RST commented on tourists' complaints in Thailand about passports stapled — Интерфакс
- Lawyer explained passport defects that could ruin a trip — Вести
- In Thai airport, staff pierced Russian passports with stapler — Вести
- In RST commented on the situation with the destruction of passports in Thailand — Вечерняя Москва
- Mash: Thai migration officers ruin passports of Russian tourists — Вечерняя Москва
- In Thailand, tourists have passports damaged by staplers and glue, — mash — Московский кэш
- Thai migration officers ruin Russian tourists' passports — vacationers complain that in airports they pierce documents with a stapler, leaving holes and glue marks on pages. — Mash
Key entities
- Thailand
- Mash
- Moscow
- RST
- Russia
- Mikhail Pyrogov
- INTERFAX.RU
- Max
- Media
- Telegram channel
- News.ru
- Russian Union of Tourism Industry