My former housemate in #Amsterdam got the extension of her #visa refused. She needs a renewal every year and has to prove her contribution to the Dutch art community. Her contribution and renown has grown in the past year, and she still didn't get a new visa.
It's the different interpretation of the same rules under the new, right wing government. Something most Dutch people seemed sure wouldn't happen.
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@Libby_ what a devastating piece of news that must have been for your housemate. Sorry to hear. But you make a very important point there, people of every country think that - being different and better - they can risk a shift to the right in such a way that will afford only positives to them while avoiding the mistakes done in the past or by other countries... it's disheartening to watch.
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@MPaola even worse, people to the left were convinced she wasn't at risk, that the administration would't change the criteria. Reasuring her that she would be fine. I doubt very much she would have changed the line of thinking in her work, or stopped her system criticism. But she might have taken more action and mobilise more people in support of open borders.
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@Libby_ The same complacency that drove us out of the UK, I am sadly well aware of that...
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