Originally Posted by JShLin

So I have a problem. I'm planning a family vacation with my mother for the summer, but as a Chinese citizen with an American greencard, she needs a schengen visa. The problem is, we're planning on visiting Austria, which doesn't provide consular services in Boston. The necessity of appearing in person, compounded with her need to renew her passport, and thusly the need for her to travel to New York twice (since the Chinese will only renew a passport in person as well) is wholly impractical.
The question is this. Since we are planning on flying into Munich, then driving to Austria, How morally ambiguous or wrong would it be to make a refundable hotel reservation in Germany, enough to qualify it as the main destination, then cancel upon receiving the Visa from the German consulate in Boston?