[AccessD] OT: "Chevaux de frise" of free world...

William Hindman
----- Original Message -----
From: "Shamil Salakhetdinov" <shamil at smsconsulting.spb.ru>
To: "AccessD" <AccessD at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 6:13 PM
Subject: [AccessD] OT: "Chevaux de frise" of free world...


> Hi All,
>
> I'm sorry I'm writing about that here - I just went very crazy today about
> what they - Western Embassies and Consulates here and their bosses in Den
> Haage (Netherlands) are doing...
>
> Here is a fresh story:
>
> - I applied for business Visum (15 days of staying, one entry) several
days
> ago for me and my two children(15 and 17 years old)  (IMPORTANT NOTE: here
> in Consualate General they ACCEPTED this application for BUSINESS visum
and
> they checked all the docs carefully) - to make that I prepared all the
> needed paperwork, get original invitation from my partner from Netherlands
> (DHL, second day delivery = rather expensive), even changed the passports
to
> make them fresh new (some more bucks) because at first they said that the
> ones I had aren't good, PAID for their "services"(not that much but should
> be enough for a rather good dinner for three I think) and I started to
> wait...
> And BTW I spent quite some time on all that prepations and quite some
> bucks in total...
>
> Do you know what answer I've got today? (in fact my Netherland's partner
was
> called from Den Haage - Ministry of Foreign Affairs) - they said I should
> have applied for TOURISTIC not BUSINESS visum because I plan to go with my
> kids but as I mentioned above here they CHECKED all the docs and ACCEPTED
> them...
>
> Should I fight with them looking for truth with the risk to be written in
> their "black lists" forever?
> Or should I give up and accept the "rules" of their game? - there is a
whole
> business around them here - and one (including any kinds of criminals
etc.)
> can buy for money any kind of Visum and freely enter West Europe or States
> or Canada...
>
> I wanted to make it direct and according to all the laws and I didn't want
> to pay to the "shadow business around them" any extra money - and I've got
> NOTHING - or I'd better say I and my partner in Netherlands got real
> mockery... And they were harsh not only with me - they were that hostile
> with my Netherland's partner too - how it comes?
>
> Shamil
>
> P.S. I know, probably Russian Embassies do something like that there in
West
> Europe - but should it justify what they are doing here these ambassadors
of
> "civilized" free world?
>
> --
> e-mail: shamil at smsconsulting.spb.ru
> Web: http://www.smsconsulting.spb.ru/shamil_s
>
>
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