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Post: I'm annoyed by the necessity of obtaining visas

I'm a simple emigrant and I'm annoyed by the necessity of obtaining visas

7/25/2019, 11:26:05 AM

This eternal question not only prevents me from spontaneously embarking on a trip, but also from planning one in advance. It was especially difficult when I lived in Tyumen: for almost any visa, at best you had to go to Yekaterinburg, and sometimes even to Moscow. It turns out that besides visa and consular fees, you also have to budget for the trip itself, and for some people even for accommodation. Unfortunately, with a Russian passport a visa is needed in many places, while the German one — one of the strongest in the world: it grants access to 188 countries. But I’m not yet a holder of a German passport. Moreover, right now I’m more interested in the possibility of my relatives obtaining a visa so that they could come to me. And recently, at the German-Russian Forum, Germany again raised the issue of visa-free entry for Russians under 25. Of course, not all of my friends fit this rule, but still. The problem is that Germany is part of the Schengen Agreement and, by offering the possibility of visa-free entry into its own country, they also open the doors to all Schengen countries. Therefore I don’t know how feasible this is in reality, but we’ll keep our fingers crossed. What do you think — would this be a great opportunity for young people to see the world, or is it “talented youth being sucked out” like by a vacuum cleaner? #useful