Originally Posted by
warakorn
What I find so curious in that storyline.
SÖP is writing:
I am not a native English-language speaker. However, it reads to me that both parents are Romanian citizens.
Frankly speaking - if this is true - at KIV all alarm-bells should have been started ringing when two parents (with Romanian EU passports) + their child (with a Russian passport) are appearing at the check-in desk in Republic of Moldova (which has both a troubling a history with Romania and Russia). This is aggravated by the fact that the Russian passport does not contain any visa, permit (whatsover, confirming a legal right to enter the UK).
In addition, two Romanian citizens are then starting to elaborate about some marriage certificate, which still needs to be certified in Russia ---> sorry it all raised suspicions.
Even as an underpaid contract agent I would have tended to deny this child boarding.
Hmm, is it criminal to have two or three citizenships/passports? If that rings a bell to You - would You call police or Border Control? Especially if You feel that there are some problems with legality of documents/certificates. Maybe we are trying to smuggle innocent baby to UK.
Specifically for Moldova - more that 30% of population has double/triple citizenship. Legally. No one is surprised there with number of passports.
Originally Posted by
warakorn
Another troubling statement from SÖP:
I must say its quite a stunt from SÖP to claim being an expert in the citizenship laws of Russia and Romania in conjunction with Moldova. In that part of Europe citizenship rules are volatile, unclear, and complex.
Really, its not up to SÖP to come to such a conclusion. There is only one party who is allowed to make that conclusion: that is the relevant government authority of Romania. Apparently, they so far have denied confirming Romanian citizenship to this baby.
Please, show me the country in EU/World were children of named country has no right to be nationals of their parents by birth. If You are English, Your wife is English, surely Your kids are English (even if they are born in USA, like Boris Johnson). Now change English to French, Russian, Romanian or Moldavian.
Once we legalised our Russian Marriage certificate we obtained Romanian Birth Certificate for kid. So he is Romanian and Russian as well same time....
Originally Posted by
purch
You can say it as many times as you like, that doesn't make it true.
Timatic is simply a tool that LH chooses to use. They could also maintain their own database of immigration requirements but that wouldn't be practical. If LH denies boarding based on their choice to use a faulty tool, they should be on the hook for the compensation. The OP shouldn't have to take it up with the UK authorities as he had appropriate documentation and therefore wasn't technically in the wrong.
If you use a system to perform a task, and that system causes a mistake, you should do the right thing and pay the compensation. Simple.
If you play on side of IATA/TIMATIC - you have two facts: 1) TIMATIC information is always right.
2) If TIMATIC is wrong - see point 1.