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[Marcia <msmartin AT ccbeunet.br>]

I've heard, and known people that didn't believe in the "you need a visa to 
go 
there" story, and got stuck at the destination's airport for a few hours, or 
days, waiting for the first flight back home.  But weeks, years and decades!  
That's a new concept to me.  I had never heard of anything like that! How can 
the people responsible for the paperwork and bureaucracy, be so heartless?



Quoting Tanner Lovelace <lovelace AT wayfarer.org>:

> Marcia said the following on 6/28/04 10:57 AM:
> 
> > And I thought the INS was bad!
> 
> When I went to school in Spain 14 years ago, the assistant
> choir conductor was an exchange student from Uraguay.
> When she came to Spain from her home, the cheapest flight
> was through a tour of Moscow on Aeroflot.  So, she flew
> from Uraguay to Moscow, toured around for a few days,
> then flew on to Madrid.  Unfortunately, there was something
> wrong with her papers and they wouldn't let her into the
> country.  Instead, they deported her back to the country
> she came from ... the Soviet Union!  This time, however,
> she didn't have a visa to get into the country and
> got stuck in the airport!  Luckily for her, she had some
> contacts within the country and was only in the airport
> for about a week, and in the country for less than two
> before getting the correct papers together and making it
> finally to Spain.  But, it makes me wonder how often things
> like this happen.  The guy in Paris seems to be an extreme
> case, but what about the other "minor" cases?
> 
> Cheers,
> Tanner
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