Themiclesian visa policy
Themiclesian visa policies govern the issuance of transit and residency permits ("visas") to aliens; these permits vary by effective period, privileges recognized, and individuals eligible for their issue. Generally, visas are granted on the basis of a valid travelling document, such as a passport, and as a rule aliens may not enter Themiclesia without a valid visa. Recently, it has been possible to acquire visas through a variety of channels and locations, most importantly consulates, airports, and over the Internet. Viewing visa policy as a means of population and border control, as well as an influence over demographics, permanent residency permits, refuge and sanctuary permits, as well as other extraordinary instruments that confer the right to enter Themiclesia as an alien are also within the scope of this article.
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Evolution
Visa policy has formed a major part of the Foreign Secretary's portfolio (also includes foreign policy and palace protocol) since the remote past, when visitors mostly consisted of diplomatic missions and merchant convoys; however, the number of visas issued for tourism, commercial, and educational purposes having sharply increased since the start of the 20th Century, thereby representing a significant factor in the demographic changes, it was recognized by statute that the Home Secretary, responsible for public administration, as well as border control, should also be given a voice in the process of granting visas. Shifts in policy initiative over it show that the Home Office's influence has been growing since the 1900s, which is when visas were first issued to those who wished to settle in the country. The function of a visa also altered during the first half of the 20th Century. Before then, a visa was an enjoinment to domestic officials from expelling, detaining, or interrupting the visitor; this force weakened over time and no longer, by itself, absolutely guarantees entry into the nation and unrestricted passage in it. Some early visas (mainly issued to ambassadors) additionally granted free food and shelter at courier stops along major highways and horses and coaches.
Under modern legislation, the issuance of (most) visas is overseen by the Bureau of Immigration (移民局), nominally under the Division of Consular Affairs (外務曹), which itself is part of the Foreign Office (尚書祠部). In reality, most policy have been formed under advice from the Home Office (尚書民部), and particular its Division of Border Administration (國境管理曹). The Foreign Office maintains its role mostly because Themiclesian ambassadors and consules retain the power to issue visas (as well as passports and safe-conducts) at their discretion. This rarely becomes necessary, since most visitors apply to the Bureau of Immigration directly, save during emergencies or when applications cannot be transmitted over normal channels. Such a recourse should be distinguished from when an embassy or consulate simply acts as a window through which visas are applied for and delivered, as here applications are still processed under conventional procedures.
Types of visas
Emergency visa
These visas always bear a number beginning with EM- with a number of digits after it. The precise format of this number is kept secret, and, from what is known about them, they are not in serial order. Retired diplomatic personnel reveal that ambassadors and consules are given a list of visa numbers that they can grant when the need arises; if these are insufficient, they may contact another official with similar access, and more can be request via cable at any time. Because this visa is usually hand-written in great haste, a valid number is often the only way that an authentic one is distinguished from a forgery.
This visa also grants the holder right to refuge at any Themiclesian public office, anywhere in the Septentrion. Most recently, it was given to IILeaks founder Bedford Hailden, who escaped possible assassination by taking refuge at a Themiclesian military garrison with the visa; the would-be assassins were then deterred by mild artillery fire. The visa was given to him upon a private appeal, by a Themiclesian counsel sitting at a neighbouring table in a restaurant.
Traveller visa
- Eligibility: generally available
- Duration: 30, 90, and 180 days
- Issuance: available online, from Themiclesian diplomatic missions, and all international airports
- Documentation: valid travel document (passport preferred)
- Cost: €2—
Visitor visa
- Eligibility: family members of Themiclesian nationals or permanent residents
- Duration: 1 year
- Issuance: available online, from Themiclesian diplomatic missions
- Documentation: valid travel document (passport preferred) and proof of relationship or letter of invitation
- Cost: €2—
Transit visa
- Eligibility: generally available
- Duration: 10 days
- Issuance: available online, from Themiclesian diplomatic missions, and all international airports
- Documentation: valid travel document (passport preferred)
- Cost: free
Student visa
- Eligibility: students admitted to a Themiclesian tertiary education institution
- Duration: 2—6 years, decided on a case-by-case basis
- Issuance: from the Foreign Office and Themiclesian diplomatic missions
- Documentation: valid travel document (passport preferred), letter of acceptance from institution, proof of remission of tuitions of the first academic term next ensuing
- Cost: free
Researcher visa
- Eligibility: researchers admitted to a Themiclesian research university or other accredited research organization
- Duration: decided on a case-by-case basis
- Issuance: from the Foreign Office and Themiclesian diplomatic missions
- Documentation: valid travel document (passport preferred), letter of invitation from institution, offer or proof of residency, proof or waiver of financial security
- Cost: €5—
Temporary working visa
- Eligibility: employee of a Themiclesian individual, natural or corporate, under the term of a single year
- Duration: 1 year
- Issuance: available online and from Themiclesian diplomatic missions
- Documentation: valid travel document (passport preferred), notarized copy of contract specifying term of employment, offer or proof of residency, proof of financial security
- Cost: €5—
Long-term working visa
- Eligibility: employee of a Themiclesian individual, natural or corporate, over the term of a single year
- Duration: 3 years, renewable
- Issuance: available online and from Themiclesian diplomatic missions
- Documentation: valid travel document (passport preferred), notarized copy of contract specifying term of employment, offer or proof of residency, proof of financial security
- Cost: €5—
Investor visa
- Eligibility: investors in Themiclesian ingenuity and industry
- Duration: 6 months
- Issuance: available online and from Themiclesian diplomatic missions
- Documentation: valid travel document (passport preferred), notarized statement of investment accounts demonstrating financial investment, or its equivalent through technical investment, exceeding €100,000—
- Cost: €5—
Professor visa
- Eligibility: professors invited to Themiclesia to give guest lectures
- Duration: 7 years
- Issuance: available online and from Themiclesian diplomatic missions
- Documentation: valid travel document (passport preferred), proof of invitation from a Themiclesian university, proof of residency, proof or voucher of financial security
- Cost: €5—
Permanent residency
- Eligibility: holders of any visa above, and spouse of a Themiclesian national, or issue (biological or adopted) to one, or parent, grandparent, great-grandparent, or great-great-grandparent to one, or sibling of one, or first, second, or third cousin to one
- Duration: perpetuity
- Issuance: available online and from Themiclesian diplomatic missions
- Documentation: valid travel document (passport preferred), proof of invitation from a Themiclesian university, proof of residency, proof or voucher of financial security
- Cost: €5—
Courtesy visa
- Eligibility: personal physician, advisor, secretary, governness, tutor, nurse, or intimate attendant to anyone part of an accredited diplomatic or consular mission to Themiclesia, or any one of their immediate family members
- Duration: in principle, valid until their principal is recalled
- Issuance: available from the Foreign Office
- Documentation: proof of relationship to principal and letter of request
- Cost: free
Attache visa
- Eligibility: personnel attached to accredited diplomatic or consular missions but not part of the missions themselves
- Duration: in principle, valid until their principal is recalled
- Issuance: available from the Foreign Office
- Documentation: letter of request from the government sending the mission
- Cost: free
Event visa
- Eligibility: foreign soldiers attending drills in Themiclesia
- Duration: varies
- Issuance: available from the Foreign Office
- Documentation: communications from the attending nation's foreign office or equivalent
- Cost: free
Commerce visa
- Eligibility: persons attending commercial functions in Themiclesia
- Duration: varies
- Issuance: available online, from Themiclesian diplomatic missions, and from the Foreign Office
- Documentation: communications from the attending nation's foreign office or equivalent
- Cost: free
Visa-exempt and privileged states
Through the frameworks of the Grand Alliance and other international bodies, Themiclesia has granted visa-exempt status to nationals of 39 states, and, with few exceptions, citizens of most nations may apply for a travelling visa upon arrival. Themiclesian law permits the designation of the visa to be modified after entry, according to the requirements of the visitor and upon presentation of the appropriate documents. The visa exemption is only good for the initial application, and individuals are still required to report their addresses within two days of reaching their destinations in Themiclesia or five days otherwise, whichever be the shorter. This process can take place over the Internet, telephone, telegram, or in person.
Nationalities by visa privilege
| Nation | Visa status | Visa type and duration |
Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aenvelinck | Visa-on-arrival | Travelling, 45 days | |
| Allied Nations | Exempt | Travelling, 90 days | |
| Andor | Exempt | Travelling, 90 days | |
| A'olafa | Exempt | Travelling, 90 days | |
| Artanor | Exempt | Travelling, 90 days | |
| Aversgard | Visa-on-arrival | Travelling, 45 days | |
| Bataviae | Visa-on-arrival | Travelling, 45 days | |
| Beloslavia | Visa-on-arrival | Travelling, 45 days | |
| Chervakia | Exempt | Travelling, 90 days | |
| Dayashina | Exempt | Travelling, 180 days Commercial, 6 months Visitor, 1 year |
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| Dzhungestan | No | ||
| Ehuktenni | Exempt | Travelling, 90 days | |
| Eisenmaat | Exempt | Travelling, 90 days | |
| Ephthesia | Exempt | Travelling, 90 days | |
| Eriador | Exempt | Travelling, 90 days | |
| Erquin | Visa-on-arrival | Travelling, 45 days | |
| Federation of Soviet R. | Visa-on-arrival | Travelling, 45 days | |
| Free Anchin | Visa-on-arrival | Travelling, 45 days | |
| Hanhae | Exempt | Travelling, 90 days Visitor, 1 year |
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| Heliokhora | Exempt | Travelling, 90 days | |
| Hokotani | Visa-on-arrival | Travelling, 45 days | |
| Innominada, R. | Visa-on-arrival | Travelling, 45 days | |
| Innominada, DPR. | Visa-on-arrival | Travelling, 45 days | |
| Jedoria | Exempt | Travelling, 90 days | |
| Khalistan | Visa-on-arrival | Travelling, 45 days | |
| Kouralia | Visa-on-arrival | Travelling, 45 days | |
| Lothlann | Exempt | Travelling, 90 days | |
| Maldania | Exempt | Travelling, 90 days | |
| Maverica | Visa-on-arrival | Travelling, 30 days Commercial, 6 months |
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| Menghe | Visa-on-arrival | Travelling, 45 days Professor, 2 years Visitor, 1 year |
Prof. visa doc. pending |
| Minilov | Exempt | Travelling, 90 days Commercial, 6 months |
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| Mozria | Visa-on-arrival | Travelling, 45 days | |
| Naseristan | Visa-on-arrival | Travelling, 45 days | |
| Neo-Pillowlandia | Visa-on-arrival | Travelling, 45 days | |
| Nukkumaa | Exempt | Travelling, 180 days Professor, 2 years Commercial, 6 months |
Prof. visa doc. pending |
| Organized States | Exempt | Travelling, 90 days Professor, 2 years Commercial, 6 months |
Prof. visa doc. pending |
| Ostland | Exempt | Travelling, 90 days | |
| Rajamaan Yhdysvallat | Exempt | Travelling, 90 days Commercial, 6 months |
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| Romavy | Exempt | Travelling, 90 days | |
| Shijuku | Exempt | Travelling, 90 days | |
| Sieuxerr | Exempt | Travelling, 90 days Commercial, 6 months |
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| Sundan | Visa-on-arrival | Travelling, 45 days | |
| Sylva | Exempt | Travelling, 90 days | |
| Tol Galen | Exempt | Travelling, 90 days Commercial, 6 months |
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| Tyran | Exempt | Travelling, 180 days Professor, 4 years Commercial, 6 months |
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| Verpletterant | Visa-on-arrival | Travelling, 30 days Neko/Inu, 6 months |
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| Vyzhva | No | Refugee, indefinite | |
| Wuestenfelsen | No | Refugee, indefinite | |
| Yugoslovenski | Exempt | Travelling, 90 days Commercial, 6 months |