Visa overstay penalties by country
What an overstay actually costs in the destinations travellers get caught out in most — the per-day overstay fine, the entry ban that follows, and the rule that causes it.
Country guides
Thailand
Overstay fine: 500 THB per day, capped at 20,000 THB
Read the guide →the Schengen Area
Overstay fine: Set by each member state; commonly a few hundred euros, higher in Germany and the Netherlands
Read the guide →Japan
Overstay fine: Up to ¥3,000,000 in the most serious cases
Read the guide →Indonesia (Bali)
Overstay fine: 1,000,000 IDR per day of overstay
Read the guide →the United States
Overstay fine: No routine per-day fine; penalties are re-entry bars
Read the guide →the United Arab Emirates
Overstay fine: AED 50 per day of overstay
Read the guide →the United Kingdom
Overstay fine: No routine per-day fine; enforcement is removal and re-entry bans
Read the guide →Vietnam
Overstay fine: Commonly 500,000 to 4,000,000 VND depending on the length of overstay
Read the guide →Mexico
Overstay fine: Administrative fine payable to INM before departure
Read the guide →Turkey
Overstay fine: Administrative fine scaled by the length of the overstay
Read the guide →Australia
Overstay fine: No routine per-day fine; enforcement is detention and exclusion
Read the guide →How overstay penalties usually work
Most countries enforce an overstay in one of two ways. Some charge an overstay fine per day that has to be settled before you are allowed to depart — Thailand, Indonesia and the UAE all work this way. Others skip the fine and go straight to an entry ban, as the United States, United Kingdom, Japan and Australia do, where the real cost is being locked out for years rather than the money.
The overstay itself almost always starts the same way: a permitted stay that was shorter than assumed, a rolling window counted from the wrong date, or an entry stamp that granted fewer days than the published maximum. Counting from your entry stamp date, and counting entry and exit days as full days, avoids most of them.
Travl tracks your border crossings automatically and warns you before a limit closes in, so the count is never something you have to reconstruct from boarding passes. You can also check a specific window now with the Schengen calculator or the 183-day rule calculator.
These guides are for planning. Immigration rules and penalty amounts change, and border authorities make the final determination — confirm current figures with the relevant immigration authority before you rely on them.
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