"When I want to visit any EU country, I'm being checked like I'm leaving an Ebola quarantine zone and not a country. I have to explain why would I want to visit that particular country, to prove that I'm either a student or working, that my parents have enough money, that I have a place to stay, to present the money that I'm going to spend, to sign a written statement that I won't prostitute myself, that my grandfather wasn't a transvestite, that there's no history of insanity in my family etc etc... "

Look at it from the other perspective...

1. My spotter now has one leg because he stepped on a mine.

2. Yes you have to prove that you are a student or a worker to be able to get in. Why? Because we have had enough of *flower* idiots who thinks the wellfare system is for anyone.

3.
She was asked to present a 1000 euros that she's gonna spend there. Her pension was about 100 euros. Since they've known that, they've told here it's not enough just to bring proof that she's got 1000 euros on her bank account, because she could borrow money, put in the bank and withdraw it later - no, she had to bring cash to present and then they've written down the serial numbers of each and every bill because she had to present those same bills first thing when she landed in Italy... After seeing that I've left the embassy, trying my best not to use bad words out loud and decided not to visit Italy for the foreseeable future. There are other countries that won't mind my money.

Again, see it from the other perspective once in a while. Every DAY we have to send ~69 people back as they are homeless and living of the street.


So, is it really "evil" to expect some proof you can afford your own living before entering the county?

IF her pension was 100€, them maybe you shoud look at your own country to find the fault?

100€ is what I get in tip (TIP!!!!!) a good night. If that is what someone have to live from in a month... Then I pity them. You cant make a human living in a civilized european country from 100€ a month, ever.

Don't get me wrong, I find it a tragedy that someone has to live like that.

But then again, it seems to be a national problem, not an internatonal one.