Here is heart-warming and true Christmas tale for you, folks.
A Ukrainian doctor decided to visit Canada and applied for a visa. One of the documents you have to present when applying is a statement about your income. If the income is low, you don’t get a visa because Canada doesn’t want any of those poor Ukrainians traipsing around.
Of course, a Ukrainian doctor has a very low salary, so his visa application was denied. The doctor could have bought a fake income statement on the black market but he decided to be honest instead.
The doctor wrote a letter to the Canadian consulate saying,
“Aside from my salary, I get gifts and tips from patients. I also treat patients at home and don’t declare this income. I’d love to live in a country where people can declare all of their income, pay their taxes honestly and live decently. Right now we are trying to create this kind of society in Ukraine. But this transformation will take time.”
The Canadian consulate read the letter, realized that different countries have different ways of dealing with things, and issued the honest doctor a visa!
The moral of the story: even the unwieldiest of all bureaucratic machines gives way in the face of sincerity and ingenuity.
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About Christmas – did you know that in German tradition, they have an “anti-Santa” too – a kind of demon punishing Bad Children? That could maybe explain one or two things about the Germans… 🙂
Google the word [ krampus ] and you will turn up a lot
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Were I the one judging the visa applications, I’d probably return a very tear-stained application with all approvals checked in such a situation. If I have to build a collective identity with anyone (and I’m not sure how else can I pull off a society over 150 people otherwise, tho I’m open to suggestions) this is the sort of person I’d be honored in building one with.
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