Immigration at airport<\/p>\n
From Bisnis Indonesia<\/p>\n
I am working as an officer in charge of welcoming and seeing
\noff foreign guests. Two weeks ago, we had a guest from Hong Kong
\nwho arrived without a visa (which is permissible under prevailing
\nlaws).<\/p>\n
The columns \"pleasure and business\" on the arrival form were
\ncrossed out and the officer asked him for his business visa. The
\nofficer then rebuked him for failing to produce one and
\nthreatened to deport him. After a while, another officer came up
\nto him and advised him settle the matter with the payment of
\nUS$100. Our guest, who was really angry at this treatment, vowed
\nto write about his experience in the Hong Kong daily.<\/p>\n
In this letter, I would like to ask one question: \"Do business
\npeople need business visas and do tourists have to tell lies?\".<\/p>\n
Another thing is about the number of days of visit. Each of
\nour guests consisting of six housewives from Taiwan got a permit
\nto stay for 60 days. But when they were about to leave the
\nimmigration area, two officers from a different counter said that
\ntwo of them had overstayed for one day and had to pay $50 and
\n$100 respectively. The others who coincidentally came to the same
\ncounter as they had when they entered the country had no
\ndifficulty at all.<\/p>\n
It is obvious that they have made the regulations unclear to
\nenable them to make money. This seems to be a trick played on
\nvisitors who stay for 60 days who check out at different
\ncounters.<\/p>\n
HENRY D.N., Jakarta<\/p>", "url": "https:\/\/jawawa.id\/newsitem\/immigration-at-airport-1447893297", "image": "" }, "sponsor": "Okusi Associates", "sponsor_url": "https:\/\/okusiassociates.com" }