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New Zealand - Immigration Insults
Posted by:
Samiuela LV Taufa on June 17, 2004 4:50:11 PM
New Zealand continues its war against Tongan Officialdom with what continues to be a widely reported discrimminatory Immigration Procedures. New Zealand's immigration officials introduced pregnancy tests last year to stem the flow of Pacific Island women giving birth while visiting New Zealand.
In the above article mentioned on Stuff.co.nz and The Washting Times a serious diplomatic blunder occurs. Unfortunately that's not the end of the story.
Returning from Australia last week we discovered that if you are a Tonga, Samoan, or Fijian you aren't even allowed on New Zealand soil without a VISA. It doesn't matter if the only reason you put your foot on NZ soil is to get it off into another plane or boat. To get on a plane from anywhere to Tonga, and that plane for some reason refuels or stops in NZ, you have to get a Transit Visa.
Not that anyone at the stupid airport actually checks visas for the gazillions of people sitting inside the transit/departure lounges. But to make officialdoms happy you have to queue at their interminably busy counter and pay your money so you can sit inside the airport. That is highway robbery, let alone all the other racist things that can be said about it.
The only redeeming thing you can suggest for this NZ tax is you can probably get better food if you actually use the Transit Visa to leave the terminal and go somewhere else to eat.
Sam T.
In the above article mentioned on Stuff.co.nz and The Washting Times a serious diplomatic blunder occurs. Unfortunately that's not the end of the story.
Returning from Australia last week we discovered that if you are a Tonga, Samoan, or Fijian you aren't even allowed on New Zealand soil without a VISA. It doesn't matter if the only reason you put your foot on NZ soil is to get it off into another plane or boat. To get on a plane from anywhere to Tonga, and that plane for some reason refuels or stops in NZ, you have to get a Transit Visa.
Not that anyone at the stupid airport actually checks visas for the gazillions of people sitting inside the transit/departure lounges. But to make officialdoms happy you have to queue at their interminably busy counter and pay your money so you can sit inside the airport. That is highway robbery, let alone all the other racist things that can be said about it.
The only redeeming thing you can suggest for this NZ tax is you can probably get better food if you actually use the Transit Visa to leave the terminal and go somewhere else to eat.
Sam T.
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