Denial Entry

[spongeman]

Are you able to attach this letter here ? ( Of course black out all personal information ). I do not believe that they say in their letter that a refusal for entry was wrong and the officer did his job wrong.

I have to say that I agree with the above.

However I think that if it did happen the OP has been treated badly, especially since the fact that practically the whole of Poland moved out of Poland freely to other EU countries during the boom.

They can't have it both ways.

[dbrenn]

LOL. Now you know how we are treated, daily, while here. But I love somtam and I am not going anywhere.

How ridiculous.

[Electra]

If it is right that the OP has been informed that the Polish immigration had acted beyond their powers in refusing him entry then there may be reasonable grounds for him to seek redress from the Polish embassy which issued his visa. At the very least he may obtain a further visa ' gratis ' and be compensated the cost of his aborted journey. Beyond that might be wishful thinking.

To the OP, I should send a letter of complaint enclosing the correspondence from the Polish authorities to the embassy asking for reimbursement of your costs and confirmation that your next visa will be issued free and will be honoured. You should also write to your own embassy in Moscow notifying them of the incident and your complaint requesting them to make representations on your behalf to their Polish counterpart.

[Maizefarmer]

I dont think you (i.e. the OP) was denied entry because of anything to do with race, skin colour or nationality - the clincher here was that the border gaurd told you thathe had phoned the hotel and the hotel had said you had no reservation.

That raises all sorts of questions & issues in the border gaurds mind regards the genuiness of the documents you had presented - and false documents are often part and parcel of am illegal immigrants makeup.

That is why I think you were denied entry and put in a cell.

What I would want to query is the allegation that the border gaurd phoned the hotel to confirm your reservation - did he actually make that phone call, and if you do chase this matter up through a lawyer to the point that legal proceedings or litigation is entered into, I would think any half decent lawyer will quickly want to establish this (i.e. phone records - if the gaurd used a cell phone or his office phone, there should be a record of that phonecal on the day and at around the time he said he phoned them).

I mention that because you felt that you had been treated on the basis of nationality, colour or race - well, if that was the case then its quite likely that the border lied about phoning the hotel (i.e. used that as a legit reason to justify his action).

You could have a problem though if it turns out he did phone the hotel - what then? What if it turns out it is the hotel messed up and got things wrong? I would think then any action against the border gaurd and/or his decision could fall apart - unless it could be shown that he was unreasonable in not letting you challenge what the hotel staff member said there and then - after all its bad enough at times getting the spelling of Asian names translated accurately into English, never mind translating them letter by letter into Polish - wouldn't take much to get a spelling mistake into the equation, and that could throw any computer based search out the window.

In short: there are a whole bunch of things that could have led up to the border gaurd saying, or been told you had no booking - get to the bottom of that before you throw time & effort into taking him to task.

All the best

Edited July 3, 2009 by Maizefarmer