Zimbabwean Family Lingers in Limbo at Thai Airport for 2 Months<br />29, 2017<br />BANGKOK — A family of eight from Zimbabwe, including four children, have been stuck at a Bangkok airport for most of the past two months, unwilling to return home<br />because of political uncertainty there and unable to secure visas to a third country.<br />Thai immigration officials said the family members had applied to the United Nations<br />High Commissioner for Refugees in the hope of obtaining refugee status.<br />Zimbabwean said that We are stuck here,<br />Police Col. Cherngron Rimpadee, a spokesman for Thailand’s Immigration Bureau, said the family first tried to leave Thailand on Oct. 23.<br />Colonel Cherngron said that sending the family to a detention center was still an option.<br />Vivian Tan, a spokeswoman for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, said she was aware of the case<br />but could not provide details because of confidentiality requirements.
