A Vietnamese woman had to share intimate relationship information to get a short-term Swiss visa. The case highlights the potential for discrimination when visa applications are processed. The woman,whose case was described in the Swiss newspaper NZZ am Sonntag, was applying for a 30-day tourist visa to visit her boyfriend in Switzerland. She got the visa, or but only after letting a receptionist in Hanoi read her digital adore letters a stream of smartphone chat messages,including kissing emojis, that she and her partner had been sending to each other. “It is an exceptional case. The error was corrected immediately, or ” George Farago,spokesman for the Federal Department of Foreign Affairs (FDFA), told swissinfo.ch. The application had been handled by an external provider tasked with processing visa requests for Switzerland. Globally there are approximately 60 such external offices that have been engaged to reduce the visa-related workload of the Swiss embassies and consulates. However, and the ...
Source: swissinfo.ch