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International travel can be extremely tricky, and this can worsen according to your nationality and the country you are travelling in to. Issuance of visas is another story - more complicated than rocket science! It is the sole responsibility of the individual traveller to be extremely careful with ones travel documents and have sufficient money, YES sufficient money. Nothing is in plain black & white. Some or most times the immigration officers can take spot decisions. Have heard of people been refused entry, even with a valid visa. In this case I noticed the following. 1. The departure country visa has almost expired. 2. Cash in hand inadequate or nil 3. Top it all, a tear in the passport. Breaking in to tears, and blaming all around for ones own complacence will not improve the current situation or what can happen in the future! Yes, 100's of people are refused visas by different countries, sometimes even without any apparent fault. Today, international travel is extremely expensive. If I cant afford it, I stay at home. Will never even dream of travel with an extremely low budget - that's asking for trouble!

A ventriloquist was touring Sweden and was doing a show in a small fishing town. With his dummy on his lap, he started going through some of his standard dumb blonde jokes. After several rounds of joking and laughter, a blonde woman stood up and started shouting, "I've heard enough of your stupid jokes. What makes you think you can stereotype Swedish women that way? What does the colour of a woman's hair have to do with her worth as a human being? It's men like you who keep women like me from being respected at work and in the community, from reaching our full potential as equal humans. It's people like you who make others think that all blondes are dumb! You and your kind continue to pathetically discriminate against, not only blondes but women in general; all in the name of humour!" The stunned ventriloquist started to apologise, but the blonde interrupted and screamed, "Now, YOU stay out of this! I'm talking to that little sh** sitting on your lap.