Martin 1234
All I am saying is that it is getting their own citizens rallied up having to prove their own citizenship in their own country. Would you not think that you were being scrutinized if you had to prove your citizenship when visiting your local flying club?
As for being thrown out half way through......as long as you are the person that turned up and all the info is basically the same as on the visa application then there is no problem. Some questions requiring dates even have a box to tick whether this is an exact answer or approximate.
Is the system a pain and over the top - Yes
Does it make more work for everyone - Yes
The only students/renters that are really affected are the ones training towards a licence....they have to spend 15-20 mins filling out a web site form and paying $130.00. We have been completing the process for the past 3 weeks at the school and it is running smoothly. For those that have been applying since the law we have been having them fill out the form after giving instructions in their enrollment; there have been no problems as it is more or less the same info as the immigration forms.
Once completed, our students visit the local sherrifs aviation dept on the field for another 20 mins for fingerprinting.
As for renters, they are exempt all of this - the school just completes 2 minute form on line about them.
I can say that laying the process out in a strightforward manner has not deterred any people from my personal view of enrolling candidates in the last 3 weeks.