Abstract:

My entry to Belgium at the end of November 2015 went more straightforward than I expected. While visa processes for Iranian nationals are known to be excruciatingly long and hard–long and hard they were for me–my entry to the country went quite smoothly. As an academic with some experiencesofinternational mobility, I had experienced lots of ‘random’checks and body searches and scans. In Brussels, I was let in with no ‘extra’questions. I took this ‘be fale khosh’as we say in Farsi,with the hope that things have started on the right foot.

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Published by Ladan Rahbari