In Reply to: Connections and VOA posted by Leigh on Monday, 25. May 2009 at 17:22 Bali Time:
and think its wrong because an official immigration officer does not check both you and your passport together,so no real immigration check on the individual!
I will get flamed for this but, you cant say Bali has been terrorist free! so even more reason to have strict immigration checks by land/sea/and air.
You cant blame people who use it though, the service is there and in Feb I was in line around 1 /12 hours,the longest it has ever taken me.
I wont use it because I think it is wrong, but that's my choice.
Airports around the world offer VIPs VIP treatment which is fine if you are a VIP,some take tour groups through together,I think that is totally different to this VIP VOA service being paid for.
I cant see it lasting too long if they do it for all or some other nationalities flying from other countries.
Australia has very tight immigration control in and out so the work is already done for the Bali Immigration,but i still don't agree with. it.