In Reply to: No more VIP/VOA posted by Jillie on Tuesday, 21. July 2009 at 13:58 Bali Time:
I'm not surprised that this service has been 'suspended'. How can any Government authority allow a business enterprise to operate alongside it, whose sole purpose it to assist people to circumvent their own processes, simply for a fee? By that I mean, arriving passengers actually facing the immigration officials, passport in hand, to 'request' to be allowed to enter THEIR country. Yet this service actually collects a higher fee tthan the actual costs of the country's vias fee? We've travelled to many many countries over the years and NEVER even heard of a 'service' such as this?? I believe that it really goes to the heart of the word 'corruption'.