Richard66 wrote:I have never given it a thought, really. Are you also saying it might be dishonest not to make the return part of your journey, once it has been bought? In this case I must be a ******* in a big way. I suppose the contents in my wallet are warping my sense of intellectual honesty.
Maybe we better make failure to use the return part of a ticket an offence.
Nah, you are missing the point here, and I'm not convinced the sarcasm was necessary
I, personally, don't have problems with return tickets
. My reasoning is NOT, frankly, about the use or lack of use of a return ticket, nor is it about making non-use of return tickets an offense. Please hear me out, my debate has more to do with an immigration officer's perception of a return ticket!:(
Let's be academically sincere here, (in the light of the fact that you are now conscious of what you admitted that you 'never gave a thought') if you were the supervisor of an Immigration officer and one of your subordinates report to you that he, after seeing a passenger's RETURN tickets, was satisfied that that passenger was, in fact, returning to his/her home country to work. Would you, as the Boss rate or commend that officer's professional judgement?
Please answer the question's question
I appreciate that the passenger concerned could, reply when asked about the return tickets, that he simply bought them for the reasons which you give.
That does not, in any way, change the fact that if the officer concerned does not ask about the return ticket, he can be deemed, in my humble and subjective opinion, incompetent
“Whoever may be guilty of abuse of power, be it Government, State, Employer, Trade Union or whoever, the law must provide a speedy remedy. Otherwise the victims will find their own remedy.”-Lord Denning