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I'm sorry to hear about Greece.  I have heard they can be difficult.  Someone else here recently reported a denial by Greece with pretty much the same level of rudeness for his wife with a Filipino passport.

 

We recently completed our Europe vacation.  We applied through the UK and Germany.  Of the two I would say that the UK was a lower level of frustration and the higher value visa and vacation destination.  I would not say that the UK visa was frustration free but at least it was 100% online and biometrics was at our local USCIS Application Support Center.  The UK visa application seemed to be heavily focused on financial documents which we have and not focused on plane tickets, hotel reservations and detailed itineraries. It was mostly "show us the money". For Germany we ended up having to drive to Los Angeles twice which is 3 hours each way so two days off work and we had to take our daughter out of school for a day since her appearance was required even though she didn't have to do biometrics or anything else except sit there silently.   Biometrics and application submission for Germany is with "BLS" which we found to be an even sketchier operation than VFS.  My wife had previous Schengen biometrics from Netherlands too and they would not reuse them although they were supposed to.  In the end, the UK granted them both 6-month multiple entry visas and Germany granted them visas with a whopping 17 days of validity.

 

If you do apply for another Schengen visa, one thing we learned it to keep the application very simple.  Submit an itinerary for only the country you are applying, listing whatever their top 10 tourist attractions are.  They do not like to see country hopping on the application even though you can freely do so with a Schengen visa.  For Germany we submitted an itinerary sightseeing around Berlin for a few days with hotel reservations that had penalty free instant online cancelation.  That way we didn't have issues with having to show intra-Schengen plane tickets etc.  After we had the visas, we changed our minds and flew to Munich, spent 2 days, rented a car and drove to Austria, snow skiing in the Alps for a few days and then we flew off to Greece for the remainder of our trip.

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I am inclined to do more or less what you did. I do not believe in lying as a general rule, and it pains me to do it, but when you are dealing with professional career swindlers who have abused you and others repeatedly for blatantly racist reasons, and you have no plans to do harm, it may be justified.

 

It's surprising how racist European countries are. They're always criticizing the US as though it were 1860, but their governments are much worse. Meanwhile, we've had a black president and vice president, secretaries of state, a national security advisor, many Senators and representatives, and a slew of black billionaires.

 

Europe has never had a black ruler. Not once. Unless you count the guy who was just elected in Wales, which isn't really a country. There is only one black billionaire in all Europe, with a population twice as big.

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13 minutes ago, The White Fiance said:

Taiwan accepted ridiculous dummy tickets.

What does that mean?

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3 hours ago, The White Fiance said:

Taiwan gave us a visa. No problems. Takes a couple of weeks. We will give the Swiss our application in August.

 

Taiwan accepted ridiculous dummy tickets.

Funny how proud you are of submitting fraudulent supporting documents. 

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3 hours ago, powerpuff said:

For certain visas, they require proof of flights and there are websites that give out “fake” dummy flight tickets 

That's aweful, I didn't realize how bad the situation is. I thought dishonest people would have to "doctor" the fake tickets. Level of effort seems way to low...

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8 minutes ago, OldUser said:

That's aweful, I didn't realize how bad the situation is. I thought dishonest people would have to "doctor" the fake tickets. Level of effort seems way to low...

OP should clarify exactly what he or she used. There are some websites that produce temporary reservations (non-paid, just reserved) that are legitimate and some consulates are okay with just the reservations. Of course there are other websites that do indeed produce fraudulent documents, usually for a fee. There both often referred to as dummy

 

 

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9 minutes ago, The White Fiance said:

Consulates commonly request dummy tickets, which they know are fraudulent. Not my idea.

So, Taiwan authorities asked you to provide fraudulent tickets?

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"The US immigration process requires a great deal of knowledge, planning, time, patience, and a significant amount of money.  It is quite a journey!"

- Some old child of the 50's & 60's on his laptop 

 

Senior Master Sergeant, US Air Force- Retired (after 20+ years)- Missile Systems Maintenance & Titan 2 ICBM Launch Crew Duty (200+ Alert tours)

Registered Nurse- Retired- I practiced in the areas of Labor & Delivery, Home Health, Adolescent Psych, & Adult Psych.

IT Professional- Retired- Web Site Design, Hardware Maintenance, Compound Pharmacy Software Trainer, On-site go live support, Database Manager, App Designer.

______________________________________

In summary, it took 13 months for approval of the CR-1.  It took 44 months for approval of the I-751.  It took 4 months for approval of the N-400.   It took 172 days from N-400 application to Oath Ceremony.   It took 6 weeks for Passport, then 7 additional weeks for return of wife's Naturalization Certificate.. 
 

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Yes. The Schengen people do it, too. They don't call them "fraudulent," but they are. It's asinine, but it's what they want. You can't fly with dummy tickets. They can't be used to hold your place on a flight. They're useless. They prove nothing. Somehow consulates still ask for them and caution people against buying real tickets. I could show you emails. It's amazing.

 

You can get your ridiculous fake tickets at dummyticket.com.

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Oh, boy. Do you seriously think I'm going to take homework assignments from you? Do it yourself. I came here and tried to be helpful, and I'm getting very ungrateful and uninformed responses.

 

If you don't believe me, do your own work and prove I'm wrong. Apply for about a dozen tourist visas. I warn you, it's a waste of time.

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55 minutes ago, The White Fiance said:

Oh, boy. Do you seriously think I'm going to take homework assignments from you? Do it yourself. I came here and tried to be helpful, and I'm getting very ungrateful and uninformed responses.

 

If you don't believe me, do your own work and prove I'm wrong. Apply for about a dozen tourist visas. I warn you, it's a waste of time.

I don't need visas for most of the countries in the world and the ones I'd need visas for - I don't need to visit. I'd never provide fraudulent docs to any government. It is a criminal offence in most jurisdictions.

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