Bangkok Finds 13 Homes With Overcrowded Foreign Residents
Bangkok identified 13 houses across 9 districts where foreign residents holding pink ID cards exceed safe occupancy limits, prompting authorities to launch further investigations into potential residency irregularities.
Bangkok completed a sweep of all 50 districts and identified 13 houses across 9 districts where non-Thai nationals holding pink ID cards are living beyond safe occupancy limits. On August 21, Police General Adisorn Gamchitsukhsri, advisor to Bangkok Governor Chadchart Sittipunt, revealed that the governor had ordered all 50 district offices to check civil registry data and report the number of non-Thai nationals holding pink ID card number 7 by end of day. Bangkok has now received complete reports from all district offices based on current database records. The data shows that across all 50 districts, there are 16,634 non-Thai nationals holding pink ID card number 7, living in 10,066 houses.
Detailed district-by-district analysis found that most areas comply with normal occupancy standards. However, 9 districts reported 13 houses where more than 16 foreign nationals holding pink ID cards reside together. District offices identified these locations as factories, dormitories, or labor rental houses.
Adisorn said the 13 houses represent data collected from house registries to verify accuracy and detect irregularities in residency transfers. Bangkok will now assign a task force from the Land and Condominium Registration Department to conduct deeper investigations case by case, examining actual use of properties, actual numbers of occupants, relationships between registered occupants, and all documents related to residency transfers. Adisorn confirmed that Bangkok will continue monitoring irregular residency transfers carefully and fairly as part of the governor's policy for transparent and verifiable municipal administration.
