A cautionary tale about visa warfare

Published February 1, 2012

Traveling is getting easier all the time. The borderless European Union makes moving about a breeze. Security systems outside of North America are sophisticated, fast and unobtrusive (groin grabbing, it seems, is a particularly American security fetish). But there are exceptions, particularly those relating to visas.

Visas are one of the world's last venues for non-military warfare, and woe is you if...