European fortress or the hours of waiting The visa regime of the European Union in Bosnia and Herzegovina
European freedom of movement is fortunate that share all the Schengen States. Without control and with no waiting times can you drive through the Schengen zone, for many it is normal and necessary prerequisite to do business. Here are splitting those who are lucky enough to have a Schengen passport from those who do not have a chance to travel without problems. Criminal or not, for the first time visitor or an expert m waiting, leisure or business travelers, there is no difference, all have at the embassies wait in Sarajevo and submit their documents. Often several hours, they are then a line to the Swedish, German or the Austrian Embassy. Many of them have set out early in the morning to get a good spot in line. Some had to travel because of poor bus service, the night before and not staying with relatives and friends, knowing if it works with the visa. If you are late, must come back the next day. There are sometimes 100 or 200 people waiting every day and in the message. Who has forgotten the documents or physical reasons can not stand long, for which there is hardly an exception to the documents in writing submitted.
Sanel is one among those waiting. He has the good fortune to be able to drive the car of the parents of Tuzla to Sarajevo and must not already in the evening mt bus to arrive without a place to bad waiting to get hold of. He often has to come here because he needs for many concerts he has a visa. He plays the guitar like a master, a young master of 18 years and has performed in Vienna and Berlin and Bern in Belgrade. One might think that he is a prodigy when you see the medals on the wall of his room, but he does not really. For the studies at the Weimar Academy of Music, he still must pass a German test, and the procurement of visas are his biggest worry at the moment. Here, the ceremony did not help that he received the Mayor of Tuzla in person for his international career - in the line are all equal.
It is very annoying, embarrassing and costly, time and again to go to Sarajevo, with all papers and then to make the stroke. Here are all the same, whether on business or visiting relatives, regulate the messages with their speed the flow of visitors to Western Europe. Many a businessman, it is even too hard to always be subjected to this procedure and then drive myself not to Schengen Europe. He prefers to send a procurator or be concentrated Business even entirely on native region.
If this first step and only ended once the documents are submitted, then begin another wait, a wait for the decision that it will work with the last trip to Germany, with visits to relatives or friends from the old country. When this arrives then you have to collect the documents personally in Sarajevo and the early arrivals, queues and waiting begins again.
Those who have a Croatian or Serbian passport in addition to the Bosnian have an advantage. You can without much difficulty to Western Europe or to stay at least ind the Slavic neighbors. Thus, under the Nationality on the business partner and sometimes on the economic success, or perhaps on the future of mixed couples. In Herzegovina in the west of Bosnia and Herzegovina is booming business of the Croats. You have to drive the happiness with their relatives in Croatia without bureaucratic difficulties trading. So they bring jobs and money in the underdeveloped region and create jobs and income. The Bosniaks, this remains denied, her neighbor, in which they can travel without too much trouble, is several thousand kilometers away - to Turkey. A border trade is thus excluded and the development in Mostar, the divided city runs once more along ethnic lines. The conditions for the economic growth of regions is consequently unintentionally determined according to the ethnicity and not by economic principles. The convergence in Mostar is not supported by the economy and the bureaucracy and remains the task of NGOs.
are often not come about business, although the deal was for all concerned is of great value. Harris is a manager of a door and window production in Tuzla, its partner company in Germany wanted to provide the PVC profiles and the hinges, which Harris then assemble at his high quality windows, and the truth should be exported back to Germany. All agreed, the contracts signed, but the visa did not come in time, not the business came into existence. Those who meet the delivery times can not, how ever, is out of business. The German company is now looking for another manufacturing plant that can not produce as cheaply as it could, and Harris has higher transport costs, but in which there are no problems with customs and visas. Perhaps there is such a partner in Bulgaria. There are shops in which to deliver the call time is more important than the price. Access to markets night it possible or impossible for Harris once such a good business with an internationally renowned company taking. Dear Harris is now focused on the domestic market, not least because he can not muster the energy to get back a German business partner, but then the visas - to fail hurdles.
