And how do you know that those items were not stolen before they
arrived in Singapore? You’re clearly letting your anger get the
better of your judgment. That previous topic was closed because
there were no new replies for 3 months.
Bob: I dont but seams unlikely that in the one hour from K.L. it
was opened and items taken. More likely to have been opened in the
4 days it was missing/lost.
You’re free to air your grievances here but you probably won’t
get any answers or closure. We can only make guesses that aren’t
clouded by emotions. In Asia, “transparency” does not mean you’ll
get all the details you want. However, people don’t get rejected
twice based on whims, which means (1) something else is amiss, (2)
it has been documented by the ICA, and (3) your
grilfriend is not meant to know how to get around it. Either she is
hiding something, or the officers are just following orders from
above. At worst they’re just like the TSA.
Bob: There is nothing else amis. She does not have a criminal
record anywhere and has not been deported from Singapore, she is
not hiding anything.
Transparancy means exactly that. All pertinent details should be
made available. I know Singapore is a closed society more akin to a
police state than a democracy. You as the Singaporean do not
realise this. More like the goldfish looking out of his bowl does
not realise that his bowl is not the world and that he is the
prisoner.
I would not object if were not that there is supposed to be a clear
agreement inder ASEA that visas are not required for
Singaporeans. If they were then we would have arranged one before
hand. What is the point of having a reciprocal agreement if it ony
works one way?
"More likely" but you don't know for sure, period. It could've
been rummaged in any of the 3 countries it was in.
How can you say there's nothing amiss when you don't even know
the full picture? Do you know who she's connected with back home?
Is what you know simply based on what she tells you? You weren't
there the first time to she how she answered (through no fault of
your own, I guess). A reciprocal agreement doesn't mean we're
obliged to take all and sundry, and it's the same for the other
signatories.
You've never been turned away before, therefore you're only
assuming that every other country will contact you. Sorry, champ,
but you should've continued your Google search, otherwise you'd
know that this thing you call a "whim" is actually judgment and gut
feeling, and ALL immigration officials around the world use it even
in the absence of a record. And after the first encounter they make
a record, in case you try something different in the future.
Any of these stunts you and your girlfriend tried wouldn't have
worked in Israel, the US or England either. Hopefully you'll never
have to experience the truth yourself, it's most unpleasant to be
put in a glass box screaming about your rights just because you're
linked to someone who was at Hillsborough this week (just
sayin').
Every Vietnamese visitor and student I've met here is proof that
our border control is not singling them out for
discimination. Heck, some of them stayed here for only a night or
two without a hitch. It's just too bad that your girlfriend's past,
connections, behaviour or circumstances in the first incident
seemed fishy enough to put her on the blacklist.
You don't know me well enough either to say that I'm oblivious
to what we live in, but I'm glad that the policies of this "police
state" allows me to go on a holiday without a visa most of the
time. However, whatever you've written here demonstrates that you
left behind a chunk of your brain somewhere on your travels.
