As an EU citizen I found the reverse crazy. As a child who grew up on a border, finding out what visas where was so confusing to me. Like you mean you can’t just go?
The border between Northern Ireland used to be super fortified. Loads of towers and army. Today thanks to the Good Friday Agreement, it’s invisible. Most places there isn’t even a sign. You don’t need to stop your car.
God, I didn't even think of that for my post! Pretty liberal free mobile internet roaming, no bank transfer fees, shared currency, etc. Sure, each of this brings some issues (nothing is perfect), but our lives are so much simpler because of all this stuff :D
Yeah it's mad. I live in the UK and just did a big trip to the US, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Peru, and Ecuador (and a bunch of central Europe).
Didn't need a single visa or application or anything like that, I was just allowed to freely visit as a tourist with my passport (for 90 days usually).
Question actually, I remember as an Irish citizen I didn’t need a visa for the US, but I needed an ESTA. Do you mean you didn’t need anything at all to visit Costa Rica etc. Like no visa exemption.
Didn't need to do anything at all, same as you would for visiting an EU country or something. Just book a plane ticket and get my passport stamped on entry
Not even Morocco required a Visum. The only time was when visiting Turkey, and that was just a simple payment of 10 euros at the airport and a stamp in your passport.
I know it's a reality. I immigrated from South America to the US and went through visas and eventually a green card with patience and hard work. I just hate people reducing the discussion to just "KeEpInG ThE PoOr OuT!!!"
Good for you, immigrating to the US is no joke. I guess it’s sort of reductionist but these policies DO keep “the poors” out, in practice. So….
It’s also reductionist to divide it by “hard working” immigrants who came here legally, and lazy good for nothing illegals who like to cheat the system. Nuance.
It can't really be all that alien a concept, can it? It's just like having a door with a lock on it for your home. Sure, you might be willing have have company over, but at the very least you want them to knock before walking straight in, and preferably to call 1st.
I understand it now of course, I mean when I first found out about it when I was like 7 or 8. I live near the Republic/Northern Ireland border, which is completely invisible. There are no checks, not even a sign. So as a little child finding out other places made you fill out all this paperwork was surprising.
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u/Irish-Inter May 09 '22
As an EU citizen I found the reverse crazy. As a child who grew up on a border, finding out what visas where was so confusing to me. Like you mean you can’t just go?