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Post by californiacro on Sept 8, 2007 20:25:06 GMT 1
i wonder how they would cope with "don't know" for a father's name?? hahahahaahahaha ;D You know what some jerks will probably want to do but can't.
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Post by pocketvenus on Sept 8, 2007 22:44:15 GMT 1
They have to know about family history.... they don't want to be given citizenship to a criminal... the family history will help identify the person further than just a name and no backgroud. They do the same thing in the USA.... they even want Mom's Maiden name... I guess that is just the price you have to pay for citizenship. It's not only for Croatian citizens, they do it for foreigners too!
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Post by Carol on Sept 9, 2007 11:51:46 GMT 1
no there is no hidden agenda in my question. I was just musing on what they would do if you couldn't answer their question rather than didn't want to. I know how inflexible the croatian bureaucracy in particulr can be. They even have trouble in processing a name which has one or two middle names!
My husband and I took a day trip to Montenegro a couple of years ago and got held up at the Cro border (as always). In the car was myself, my husband our two young sons and my younger brother. The border guard made my brother and my husband right their father's names and occupations down on a piece of paper. they didn't want mine - maybe I am my husband's property?? And replying retired and deceased was not sufficient, they needed to know what jobs they each did 20 years ago. As to the address for my dad, my brother could only offer them the graveyard! I really can't see the point of them needing to know that so we could continue our holiday/ resume our jobs (for which we have valid work permits). It just seemed to be bureaucracy at its most mindless.
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Post by pocketvenus on Sept 9, 2007 12:24:20 GMT 1
Carol, that takes the biscuit! The border guards are enough to give one a nervous breakdown! They once didn't believe I was British despite the fact I had a Brit passport on me! I have faced the Spanish inquisition so many times at the borders, with both passports. A Sweish friend of mine who has been in Croatia only a couple of times even knows what they are like!
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Post by gary on Sept 9, 2007 13:00:55 GMT 1
Not so long back the Croatian border guards on the Slovenian border asked me if I had any photographic evidence of my identity other than my passport!
An ID card from Iraq really got their paranoia buttons pushed.
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Post by pocketvenus on Sept 9, 2007 15:10:04 GMT 1
They don't care! If they've got out of bed on the wrong side and can't be ar#ed stamping your passport you've got to enter at another border crossing and hope for the best.
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Post by happy on Sept 9, 2007 15:15:50 GMT 1
I travel on a British passport.
I have NEVER had any problem entering/leaving Croatia.
Both flying and driving in/out.
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Post by Sasha on Sept 9, 2007 15:30:20 GMT 1
They don't care! If they've got out of bed on the wrong side and can't be ar#ed stamping your passport you've got to enter at another border crossing and hope for the best. You are talking nonsense Pocket!
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Post by capio on Sept 9, 2007 15:32:18 GMT 1
I thought the Croatian passport control were a nightmare until I went to Usa after recently having been to Cuba, China and Iraq....oh that was fun.
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Post by Sasha on Sept 9, 2007 16:00:51 GMT 1
I thought the Croatian passport control were a nightmare until I went to Usa after recently having been to Cuba, China and Iraq....oh that was fun. Thanks Capio, I had the same problem at the LA Airport last year: almost 2 hours wait and a lot of hassle,
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Post by gary on Sept 9, 2007 16:08:18 GMT 1
Apparently It's "tradition" that US Immigration people are rude and aggressive. I've had my run ins with them.
Rudeness and aggression didn't seem too effective in keeping the 9/11 terrorists out.
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Post by happy on Sept 9, 2007 17:36:30 GMT 1
I believe immigration people are the same (bad) the world over.
Imagine what a boring job it must be!
Looking at people's mug shots all day long.
They have to find any excuse to seek out something, anything, to amuse themselves to pass the time.
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Post by pocketvenus on Sept 9, 2007 17:44:58 GMT 1
They don't care! If they've got out of bed on the wrong side and can't be ar#ed stamping your passport you've got to enter at another border crossing and hope for the best. You are talking nonsense Pocket! Funny that. I crossed the border to get a tax return stamp last year, with a brand new British passport. They practically said they thought I was Croatian and not British, and wouldn't give me one. The way they looked at me I got the impression that it was because I've not got big hips, and they think all British women do. Or because I speak fluent Croatian, who knows. Next time I'll praviti se Englez!! ;D
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Post by justapixel on Sept 9, 2007 18:47:38 GMT 1
Funny that. I crossed the border to get a tax return stamp last year, with a brand new British passport. They practically said they thought I was Croatian and not British, and wouldn't give me one. The way they looked at me I got the impression that it was because I've not got big hips, and they think all British women do. Or because I speak fluent Croatian, who knows. Next time I'll praviti se Englez!! ;D You see you shoudn't have cut off those breasts. ;D .
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Post by Aleksandra on Sept 9, 2007 21:18:41 GMT 1
Funny that. I crossed the border to get a tax return stamp last year, with a brand new British passport. They practically said they thought I was Croatian and not British, and wouldn't give me one. The way they looked at me I got the impression that it was because I've not got big hips, and they think all British women do. Or because I speak fluent Croatian, who knows. Next time I'll praviti se Englez!! ;D The same happened to me when I crossed into Slovenia by car to fly to UK from Ljubljana. I asked for tax stamp and gave them my UK passport which does say that my place of birth is Zagreb. They asked lots of questions and searched on their computer if I am still registered as having residential address in Croatia. Eventually they stamped my tax return, but apparently even though you live abroad, and take goods with you abroad, if you are Cro citizen, no tax stamp to reclaim PDV (which they never give you back in full anyway...)
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