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> demands that are almost impossible to meet (can you account for all your international travels over the past 10 years?) Yes, easily. That's some hyperbolic b
by moogly 5y ago
> demands that are almost impossible to meet (can you account for all your international travels over the past 10 years?)
Yes, easily. That's some hyperbolic braggadocio. If you're a maniacal globetrotter, sure, I can see it being annoying or maybe even difficult, but "almost impossible"? Get a grip.
- raverbashing 5y agoThe person is a journalist. I think that implies an order of magnitude more international travel than the average person. Surely, not impossible, but might not be too trivial neither.
- CaptainZapp 5y agoI can account for all my intercontinental international travelling since 1980, since I kept all my passports. But how would I ever be able to account for international trips, where id was sufficient (so no stamp) or didn't need id in the first place, which is mostly the case since 2008?
- raxxorrax 5y agoYou just don't mention it.
- CaptainZapp 5y agoIt's a really bad idea to lie on a visa application. Even if this lie is by omission and unintentional. If you're caught in such a "lie" you risk not only refusal of your visa, but you also risk being banned from the country for years. It would be a different matter if the question would specifically exclude EU travel. But looking at the UKs behavior towards foreigners in the last ten years I very much doubt it. This hostility is not something cooked up by me, or felt anecdotally, it's an actual government policy implemented in 2012[1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Office_hostile_environment_policy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Office_hostile_environmen...
- raxxorrax 5y agoTrue, you shouldn't lie, but there is no documentation when you travel within the EU.
- bserge 5y agoHe probably means proof. I can remember where I've been, I have very little evidence though.
- moogly 5y agoCorrect me if I'm wrong (I'm having a hard time finding the new rules), but if it's anything like the old UK Visa application (which also had a travel history requirement), it's not super stringent and something you have to prove with extensive documentation.
- paganel 5y agoNot the author but in many parts of Europe it's pretty easy to cross a border without you even realising it. There are many people who live in France and work in Switzerland (Geneva or Lausanne), and I'm sure a similar thing happens to Germans who live in their country and work in let's say Basel. How do you account for those international travels?