Taiwanese need visa for Australia? Taiwanese model with visa denied entry at Melbourne Airport

I thought Taiwanese could enter VISA free? This Taiwanese model seems to have a VISA and still not allowed to enter?

Nothing to do with the strange bottles?

Most “reality” TV shows are scripted, just saying…

Only Australian citizens can enter “visa free”

Taiwanese apply for an ETA (electronic travel Authority) otherwise known as a “visa” specifically “visa subclass 601”

This one isn’t fake

Because she was planning to work illegally, and they had evidence of her doing it prior in other countries.

Seems it was her telling the officer she did modeling in Canada without clothes for money

Without a work Visa too

Excellent content!

That Taiwanese woman (I wonder what her background is?) definitely earned that result, but I don’t think she can compete with that auntie from China who was caught with piles of undeclared food in her suitcase—and attempted to eat as much as possible of it in front of the border agent! :joy:

Guy

Looks real, but not 100% sure? Other thing odd they deported her to China (Hong Kong) and not to Taiwan?

You can still be requested to prove you can meet the visa conditions at the border.

Australian ETAs are a visa under Australian law but in terms of reciprocity for visa free/ETA treatment of other countries it varies.

This show is real though, you can see it being filmed occasionally.

Australia just doesn’t tolerate lying. If you’re honest in your declarations and have an appropriate visa the border staff are lovely and helpful.

My favourite episode was one of this hippy American dude who had an ETA and no money but couldn’t understand why he wasn’t allowed in.

Border staff “How are you going to support yourself with no money, no credit cards, no friends, and nothing pre-booked without working”

In a strong American accent “I don’t need money man, I just need my guitar”

#byefelicia

She had apparently arrived at Melbourne Airport on a Cathay Pacific flight from Hong Kong (the CX boarding pass is visible in the video). Since her last port of departure had been Hong Kong, she was—after being denied entry into Australia, and according to that video—put onto the next plane bound for where she had come from (that is, HKG).

Guy

I find is a bit strange that people are deported to the last country they were in rather than their home country/country of residence

A scammer from Singapore who kept changing her story received the same fate as the “model” from Taiwan: off to a private room, lots of tears (boo hoo hoo), denied entry into Australia, and send back, with—in this case—the heaps of contraband she attempted to carry into Australia seized and destroyed.

I have to say that this show is quite good. :popcorn:

Guy

Based on my personal experience with deportation, you are typically sent back to the country you departed from or your country of origin. However, authorities may sometimes allow you to purchase a ticket to a third country, provided that you have a valid passport or visa that authorises your entry into that destination but all at your own expense. Authorises will ask you before they purchase your ticket.

It doesn’t tolerate telling the truth either going by the above cases. Best scenario is to do a Ting Bu Dong sorry mate no speak Fair Dinkum.:grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:.