Passports be damned. Looks like Malta under Labour has a thriving business in Schengen visas for Chinese.
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November 18, 2014 at 8:46pm
Three thousand Chinese people have applied for Schengen visas through the Maltese embassy in China since Labour got into government in March last year. Around 2,400 have been approved, 52 of which were approved despite the recommendation that they be refused outright.
Who gave instructions for the refusal to be over-ruled, and on what basis?
I don’t see many Chinese tourists about, so maybe we’ve got some people-trafficking operation going on, with outfits like Leisure Clothing and various Chinese restaurants and massage parlours, following which they disappear into the rest of Europe.
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http://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2014-11-18/local-news/Just-over-3-000-Chinese-apply-for-Schengen-VISA-at-Malta-s-China-embassy-over-2-000-approved-6736125926
Will we be back to the old Labour days, when we used to hear that ‘the sun rises from the east’?
Doesn’t the argument that we have too many klandestini (read black people) in proportion to our small population not hold water then? Or are we foisting these Chinese onto other EU countries instead?
So we are selling visas not passports.
We’re selling both. And probably also testing how long it will take for the EU to get fed up with us and apply the new procedure for suspending the rights of a Member State under the Lisbon Treaty.
Part of the blame rests with a weak-willed European Commission for caving in on this.
How many bottles of water does a Schengen visa cost at the Malta embassy in China?
Depends on the whim of the one whose salary is now €13,002.40 per month.
Oh dear. Please don’t suggest that Mrs Konrad Mizzi (or is she now Sai Laing?) is taking sweeteners for visas, Chinese style. But then she does have to buy her own pillows.
I’ve been through this process a couple of times from the Philippines. It’s 60 euros per person and a mountain of paperwork.
When you phone the embassy a Chinese girl who doesn’t speak English picks up and will only pass you to someone Maltese if threatened.
This is how it was about 5 years ago, though really I don’t think it’s changed so much.
No mention of some 50 bottles of water?
50 bottles = 50 x 1000 ltr = € 50,000.00
Nice way to go about it.
errata: ltr > mL
Now I start to understand what Ms Mizzi is doing to earn all that money – finding a market for visas.
This is what I really meant :)
http://www.csmonitor.com/var/ezflow_site/storage/images/media/content/2012/1105-weekly/1105-opostoffice-post-office/14136605-1-eng-US/1105-OPOSTOFFICE-post-office_full_600.jpg
Next step – postal voting I think.