Originally Posted by
SAllen
Oh! This is strange?
Why is it strange? I haven't travelled outside Europe enough to know how common Immigration forms are... but they've always been the exception rather than the rule in Europe. And my European travels go back long before the Schengen days.
I remember filling in a form at the Greek land border in 1977. I think there were forms to fill in for some Eastern European countries before the Iron Curtain came down. But the majority of countries, even back then, required nothing more than a passport, with no form-filling.
I don't know what the precise situation is these days, but I don't think there are many European countries, other than the UK, that require visitors to fill in forms.