It's barbaric because it's pointless and invasive. You're worried I might commit a crime? I don't recall seeing tourism cited as the reason your prisons are overflowing.
But beyond that visas themselves are stupid. There is no humanity behind visas, just mindless and impersonal bureaucracy designed to protect us and our countries from nobody - they don't stop anyone with bad intentions, they don't stop anyone intending to stay illegally. All they do is artificially limit you whether it's in your exploration of a foreign culture or you're the founder of graphic.ly.
I travel a lot, I love the world and I love seeing and being a part of as much of it as I can afford to. But I hate visas.
Doing things the legal way left me unemployed for over a year and a half, however if I had done things the illegal way I could have been working that full year and still gotten in as a legal citizen without any consequences and it's that hypocritical bullshit of penalizing the law abiding immigrants as to why there are so many illegal immigrants.
Someone from an economically poor background, from a country with a corrupt police system is never going to abide by an immigration law if it makes them poorer and looks more corrupt. It's asinine.
It's also worth pointing out that Citizenship and Immigration Canada is currently facing a class action lawsuit for profiteering off of issuing visas when by law they can only serve them at cost.
But beyond that visas themselves are stupid. There is no humanity behind visas, just mindless and impersonal bureaucracy designed to protect us and our countries from nobody - they don't stop anyone with bad intentions, they don't stop anyone intending to stay illegally. All they do is artificially limit you whether it's in your exploration of a foreign culture or you're the founder of graphic.ly.
I travel a lot, I love the world and I love seeing and being a part of as much of it as I can afford to. But I hate visas.