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Financial check. security during passport control in Spain
Good afternoon!
Tell me, please, do they check at the border for the presence of the necessary amount of money for a holiday (financial security)? Everything is clear with cash, but what if part of the funds is on the card? How do they check the balance of the card and do they check it?
And does it happen that in fact people do not have the full amount that is provided for by the requirements for obtaining a visa? And then what?
Thanks!
Tell me, please, do they check at the border for the presence of the necessary amount of money for a holiday (financial security)? Everything is clear with cash, but what if part of the funds is on the card? How do they check the balance of the card and do they check it?
And does it happen that in fact people do not have the full amount that is provided for by the requirements for obtaining a visa? And then what?
Thanks!
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Then the visa will not be issued! If you have a visa in your hands, then there should be no problems. No one will check the balance of the card. I drive with an almost empty card (a couple of hundred lies), almost everything is always in cash. More than half of the tourists do not have the required amount, I assure you! And everyone goes through passport control.
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answered 11 years ago
Theoretically, they have the right to inspect luggage, but in practice, neither we, nor friends, nor relatives have come across this. Don't worry, everything will be fine.
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answered 11 years ago
at the border, the presence of the amount required. the amounts are not checked, but to obtain a visa you will provide the relevant documents (account statement or you must have a sponsor)
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answered 11 years ago
Age62, cash flow statement on the current account, sponsorship letter are required if the tourist is not working, or the average monthly salary in the certificate of employment is below a certain minimum.
This year, when we applied for visas to Greece, TezTour employees demanded from us statements from current accounts, despite the fact that salaries, confirmed by certificates from places of work, are several times higher than the minimum. I refused to provide bank statements, referring to the list of documents that I printed out from the official website of Gen. consulates of Greece. The documents were accepted in TezTour without extracts, we received visas.
Unfortunately, a number of TO and TA employees have a low professional level, and hence unsupported demands arise.
This year, when we applied for visas to Greece, TezTour employees demanded from us statements from current accounts, despite the fact that salaries, confirmed by certificates from places of work, are several times higher than the minimum. I refused to provide bank statements, referring to the list of documents that I printed out from the official website of Gen. consulates of Greece. The documents were accepted in TezTour without extracts, we received visas.
Unfortunately, a number of TO and TA employees have a low professional level, and hence unsupported demands arise.
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answered 11 years ago
Sept 2008, for Spain the package is larger than for Greece. Last year, we did not provide bank statements for Greece. And Spain had to. And the fact that the employees of travel agencies have a low professional level is true. Previously, people from MGIMO, KIMO graduated - and now they are learning at the workplace on clients.
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answered 11 years ago
Well, the number of banknotes is not checked upon arrival either in Spain, or in Italy, or in Turkey, after all.
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answered 11 years ago
travelsita, MGIMO and now people are finishing up. To work in the tourism industry, a specialized education is quite enough, but I got the impression that the employees with whom I had to talk had no more than a secondary school behind them, they left impressions of themselves that were not very pleasant. But this is a special case, often there are educated employees who know their business. The human factor, as they say.
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answered 11 years ago
sent2008, I agree with you that travel agencies sometimes ask for more documents than required. BUT ! For example, we do not live in Moscow and in order to obtain a visa, documents must be sent by courier to Moscow. So it is in our case - it is better to overdo it than not do it))) And so, to be honest, they (travel agency employees) told me such interesting things))) For example, about the passport. The validity period was also ending for a trip in August - there was still enough of it, but for a trip in September - it was no longer enough. And we (not in Moscow) make a passport for about a month, so it didn’t work out after the August trip, they just didn’t manage to meet the deadlines. I suggested that my husband give the docks to the new ones. passport before the August trip, just in a month it would have been done. Why! director! the travel agency said: "What are you talking about! And if by the time of departure the passport is already ready? And you, when passing through passport control, will be told that you are eating with an invalid passport?!"
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answered 11 years ago
Age62, in Moscow, a passport is also made for about a month, for PVS, the deadline for this procedure is 30 days.
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answered 11 years ago
At the border, the Spaniards do not care how much money you have with you. This issue is of more concern to Russian customs officers, and it’s more likely to check how much you export, and not to establish whether you go through financial security or not. In any case, in practice, it is enough to simply show the card, no one is interested in its rest.
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answered 11 years ago
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