Re:Ask HN: How Can I leave Syria now and get asylum in Europ...
by anigbrowl on Friday August 30, 2013 @02:46PM
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They don't know whether you are some regular person just trying to live your life, or some supporter of the sanctioned regime trying to protect ill-gotten gains by moving them out of the country. Unfortunately the latter is a frequent occurrence in military conflicts. The problem is that they don't really have the cultural or social context to judge which sort of Syrian person you are.
The best idea I can come up with offhand is consider a closer but wealthier and more stable country as an intermediate destination, such as Turkey or Dubai, but I realize that's not very helpful.
Re:Ask HN: How Can I leave Syria now and get asylum in Europ...
by jimbobimbo on Friday August 30, 2013 @03:17PM
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It's less risky to not to provide an explanation than provide the one that will blow up in your face in court.
especially that the account was verified and active for weeks, with a valid credit card and all supporting documents (passport etc ..)
I got rejected many times from paypal, 2co, rackspace etc .. but they used to explain the reasons like "we can't deal with syrian citizens" or "you are from a sanctioned country" etc ..
maybe I shouldn't call it racism, But I'm not a native english speaker, and I don't know what should it be called when you are treated differently for being accidentally born in a different region.