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The scrutiny is because Indians and Pakistanis are racially identical. Pakistan / Terroristan is a state sponsor and breeding ground for terrorism, and all European countries need to make sure that even though you are applying in India, you are not actually a Pakistani poseur.
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Also, whatever said and done, let's face the fact. It's their country so it's upto them whom they want to enter and whom they wish to decline entry. So why fret about it. It's our system which doesnt' function properly so why blame the others. If we feel so "unjustified" at the biased behavior of the officials working at the embassy, then rather than pointing a finger at them, why don't we clean our house first.
But heck! we've all taken things for granted to a certain extent. We're like, as long as we're not being affect by any wrong doing, why bother. It'll only get us into trouble.
FYI - A grant of visa doesn't necessarily mean entry to the country. The entry is decided by the immigration official who has every right to deport/detain an individual.
Also, a question. Whom would we want at the post of a prime minister or president or any other "significant" job at any place. Surely and Indian instead of a foreigner. Let's face it. We are as racist as any other nation although we pretend otherwise. Do we(entire country) really tolerate a "foreign" person as a peer. Chances are "not quite". The dialogue from the movie chak de is as good an example as one can get. When the girls from Meghalya arrive to register for the olympics team, "sukhram ji" says 'welcome to the country' or something like that and the girls say " apney hi desh main reh kar........ "
The same way, even the foreign countires in order to protect the interest of their citizen, want to make sure that the visa's they grant are to people who are not of any threat to the citizens of their own country will come back to India. They want to make sure that their prime minister is a person of their own country origin and not a person and not an "acquired" citizen.
It has happened many a times that visa's are granted and people don't return because of better standard of living, hence the officials need to double check on thing. Southall is one example I can quote. That's like a mini-punjab with jalebi's being made outside the shop. For sure the day is not far behind when the queen would walk to see the jalebi's being made there.
Also, the flow of foreign exchange into from immigrants makes their economy weak and ours stronger. To say the least, it's their own people who are un-employed. So there are a lot of factors which go into a grant and denial of a visa however, these are not mentioned to us avoid a "political/discrimination" debate or any crisis which would further hamper their economy and put them on a bad note on a global front, hence petty excuses are offered.
A lot of things have to swept under the carpet.
Like I said in my earlier post, the onus is onto us to prove that we will return. You do that, and there's no reason for them to deny a visa.
As for you harry- in all likehood you should be getting the visa as the questions they asked were very generic but when are you goin to get your visa. It's friday today and embassy's don't work over the weekend and you said your flights' on sunday. Ain't it? Which VFS office did you submit your passport to? It might be a better idea to pick it up from there itself.
For those who think that if the visa was denied, the passport is handed back immediately, the thought is wrong. There are times when the VFS receives the passport with the visa rejected.
Hope this clarifies the matter a bit more
Laila tov'
M2S
PS: The opion expressed in this thread is to shed some light on how embassy's possibly work and not to start a debate related to either political or personal point of view.