Wow, that sounds pretty bad and certainly corrupt too.IceWharf wrote:Yes, I completely understand this SMS and I agree.
My issues is with the process most countries (Australia included) use on these people. Because the person trying to arrive has zero rights they are treated pretty bad like criminals for a visa discrepancy. Always guilty before proven innocent. Anyway, I can't change that in this country.
Finally managed to talk to my gf when she was boarding the plane last night. As you can imagine spending the night in a detention center was not the travel experience anyone want their gf to go through.
What has really p1ssed me off is that they took ALL of her money. Now I understand the need to recover the cost of the return flight but she already had a return flight and it would have cost me $50 to change the date. Or if that did not work I or she could have gone online and bought a new ticket for $280 (I checked ont he day). What actually happened is that an immigration officer took every cent she had which was about $450 dollars (was in Thai but they forced her to change it), and from what I understand they did not give her a receipt for the money. What on earth was she meant to do stuck in Bangkok airport, more than 2 hours from home with no money for food or transport!!!!!
Now in most countries that would be considered the 'cost' of doing business. But in Singapore that's a pretty big shock for me, with no receipt, no ticket and a massively over inflated price I'd call that corruption.
Pretty mad, but what can you do in Singapore for foreign rights?!?!
So has she been coming to visit you in Singapore on a sort of month-on, month-off kind of thing? So she stays for the full month then heads back for a month then comes back etc....IceWharf wrote:Yes Thai, was stuck in Singapore, only stuck in Bangkok airport because she was scammed out of all her money. Rejection reason: Too many month-in/month-out visits to see me, they say it looks like she's working, which she's not but how do you prove that.
No now have the flight cost details and Tiger charged her $280 to change the date of her flight (Tiger and their charges is a whole other thread!), so the two guys involved pocketed $170 from one girl. Do this a few nights a week and it's a very good earner.
I have been doing some reading on the internet and it looks like the ICA have a major corruption problem, only the big cases hitting the newspapers. A big lack of process, controls and accountability over there!
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