And that's why Live and Invest Overseas has compiled a list of 21 countries that offer residency visas with reasonable requirements.
We need a law that promises qualified applicants a permanent visa in a reasonable period of time, as long as they agree to return home and complete processing at their local consulates.
In the end, faced with the uncertain outcome of court action, the card companies were forced into what Visa called a "reasonable and responsible resolution".Competition authorities in Britain, acting against MasterCard, and in the European Union as a whole, against Visa, have tried to tackle the hidden levy embedded in interchange fees.
But even after the spotlights have dimmed, these ostensibly washed-up acts continue to work, command reasonable ticket prices and have Visa bills that have to be paid.
Schily told me over a drink the night the first package passed that, to his mind, the problem was never the details — fingerprinting, screening visas, redefining the "reasonable" in reasonable suspicion, expanding data banks for policemen — so much as it was getting Germans to accept that "we are not the same place we were at the beginning of the First World War".
It seems that it would be reasonable for Russia to repeal its visa regime unilaterally.
If the asylum seekers have used a "bogus document" to enter Australia they also risk being refused a visa, unless they can provide a reasonable explanation for using a fake document.
The new law would have broad impacts on asylum seekers already in the community, and would mean: People arriving without travel documents will be refused protection visas unless they can provide a "reasonable explanation" for not having identification.
Given the increased powers given to the executive to cancel visas on 'character' grounds, it is reasonable to consider the extent to which the judiciary can provide a check on the exercise of such powers.
The visa cancellation process in New Zealand is a lot more reasonable as well.
