sorry Martin. Been there, done it. you are wrong. it depends on the country they are going to. they all have different rules. I said thailand particulary. A girl I know met me there and all she had was a parssport and an airticket. No visa. She got the via in Bankok airport . $50aud about I think from memory, but needed to show she had at least $300AUD on her person. No use in dissagreeing with me, because I have done it and all the opionions in the world will not change the fact that I and my, then girl, went to thaialand and got a visa this way. And its nothing to do with USA I know, but I just said that as this rule applies in 1 country, it is possable that it applies some other places. But usa or oz, would ask to see how much money this person makes on paper when applying for a visa. There job, reasons to return home, family ties etc, and even then they can just say no on suspicion that they are lying. Ive gone though that too
ID,
I don't believe I've said anything to disagree with you, of course at one point I was referring to when visa applications are required in advance but back to the particular subject, the airline should not, they do not have the authority to, deny her travelling providing she has the correct paperwork, whether she has a particular amount of cash if of no business to the airline, that is purely an immigration issue of her destination country.
As you say, she needed to prove money to immigration in Bangkok which agrees with the scenario that she did not need to prove it before departing FSU and serves to prove that any scammer who claims that they will not allow her board the aircraft until she has X amount of money to be exactly that, a scammer.
ID
Thats interesting to me about the $300 for Russians to get into Thailand.
I was there earlier this year and my girl never mentioned it.
She may have had the $300. One day when we were there she tried cashing a US$100 bill and the money changer looked at it long and hard, then gave it back and said it was fake.
So we went across the road and the money changer there didnt look at it and just cashed it.
The thing is. Its not hard for them, to come up with the money -)))
you have to distinguish between turkey and the united states. i have russian friends that go to turkey all the time. They cant get US visas to save their lives. Also. There is a money on hand requirement equivalent to $50 a day for persons entering Jamaica, but that is on a visa they get when they arrive. In my experience the Jamaicans, though, have never actually asked to see the money. Russians can basically go to Jamaica, Egypt, Cyprus, and Thailand, Turkey and Bali, without difficulty. Everything else is hard. I'm trying to find out if its possible for a Russian to get a visa to Australia, from Thailand, after having entered Thailand, as one Russian girl has told me her friend did that.
By appropriate documentation to depart Russia, that depends on the destination. For instance, if you are flying to Jamaica, you have to have hotel reservations there and the appropriate airplane tickets back and forth, and the cash reserves which ive heard expressed as $50 a day.