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| Subject: Re: I am stuck in Peru becuaes of corruption, Migrations and Lan Peru airlines, help!
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Posted on: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 08:56:32 +0000 (UTC)
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Personally I don't beleive your story, sounds like you are trying to
run a scam.
Joe
angela l wrote:
> Money wouldn't be a problem; I have an emergency credit card; the
> problem is being able to leave the country because of the corruption at
> migrations. I don't know how much money they will suck from me and then
> I wouldn't be able to pay the ticket out of here. Someone suggested
> Ministry of Foreign Affairs. I already know how the Embassy works with
> their high interest loans. THANKS FOR YOUR INFORMATION.
> Expat wrote:
> > Angela,
> > A solution to your problem is very easy go to the American Embassy. If
> > you have no money for the flight they will write you a small loan to
> > cover your flight, hotel and whatever else you need.
> >
> > Joe
> > angela l wrote:
> > > On 6/07/06 I went to Lima airport for trip back to the states. There
> > > had been a change to my flight, made by Cheaptickets.com over the
> > > internet, but they did not provide me with a new paper ticket. Lan Peru
> > > airlines refused to let me fly and said I didn't figure into their
> > > system for the new flight and they said the email I brought from
> > > Cheaptickets.com didn't mean I had paid for the flight. I spoke to
> > > American airlines at the airport and they said I was in their system
> > > for the connection flight from Miami to Chicago, but they had no
> > > control over Lan airlines. I went to Lan Peru office in Lima, where
> > > they are very malicious and unprofessional about this. Thier only
> > > solution is EXTORTION (for me to be a scared foreigner) to buy a flight
> > > to Quito, Ecuador for above $1,000.00 USD ONEWAY which would connect me
> > > to the American flight, or pick another day to fly with Lan to Miami,
> > > tickets limited to service, Monday through Thursday, putting me at an
> > > illegal immigration status, as my Visa expired 06/11/06. And Lan will
> > > change my tickets and charge me a penalty fee of $250.00 USD and the
> > > difference of ticket price (I bought the tickets on Cheaptickets.com in
> > > November 05). They want to charge me $200 for the change to Lan and
> > > $50.00 for the change to American Airlines and whatever is the ticket
> > > price difference the day I give in. That doesn't seem legitimate that
> > > this airline would charge the fee for the American Airlines change. I
> > > did not willingly make or ask for a change to my trip. I arrived with
> > > plenty of time prior to boarding for the flight I was denied, and I had
> > > paid for with Cheaptickets.com. I spent two hours struggling with
> > > baggage weighing 45 kg up and down stairs, then back and forth down the
> > > corridor of the airport, with a lot of chaos everywhere, looking for
> > > offices to help me, only to find it didn't make any sense that person
> > > has no idea how to help me; there was no order in that airport. They
> > > were threatening me when there were ten minutes left to gate closing
> > > time and I still had no answer. I have been here in South America,
> > > mostly in Peru for six months, so now I have no money, and they won't
> > > simply help me, let me travel back to the states. They want to force me
> > > to buy another ticket, pay again, I have no money. There is no logic,
> > > they just have a win-win situtation to make money under their false
> > > pretexts.
> > >
> > > I have diligently tried to work this out with Cheaptickets.com writing
> > > like 20 emails, spending my last $20 for long distance call, put on
> > > hold for 46 minutes and then disconnected. Each time I call, it
> > > disconnects while on hold. They cannot give me the answer over the
> > > internet and repeatedly say I must call them without providing a direct
> > > line or a call collect line for foreign travelers in an emergency.
> > >
> > > At the moment, I cannot leave Peru until I get a 30-day extension
> > > stamped in my passport, which I have been denied daily at Migrations in
> > > Lima. I went yesterday and today, same problem. I began the process for
> > > a 30-day extension, Prorroga de Permanencia on Friday morning, the 9th
> > > of June, 2006 (my 90-day Visa expired on Sunday, the 11th) and waiting
> > > in terribly long lines, I received the application on Monday the 12th
> > > (which I still have on hand, they didn't accept it). I have receipts
> > > for payment (Banco de la Nacion) for this service, but absurd as it is,
> > > they have used ludicrous excuses to postpone the stamp of approval.
> > > They don't like the format of my single last name in my U.S. passport
> > > with which I have traveled for 5 years abroad (including entry and
> > > departure to and from Peru a total of 10 times), and it never raised a
> > > question. As ridiculous as it is, I had to write an official, notarized
> > > letter to the Director of Migrations, appologizing for my U.S.
> > > passport, that I have an error in my name on my Migrant card, which
> > > stays with them when I leave. This has to do with Americans having one
> > > surname and the Spanish-speaking using two sunames.
> > >
> > > I have been to Migrations, desperately on a daily basis ever since and
> > > they look for any lame reason to refuse to give me the 30-day extension
> > > (Prorroga de Permanencia). Yesterday and this morning, they said they
> > > would call the Director of Migrations at the border with Ecuador,
> > > Tumbes about the (ridiculous, I am sorry) letter I wrote and I may come
> > > back again tomorrow to see if they accept this letter. They showed me a
> > > stack of letters, with mine at the bottom. It is corrupt extortion, but
> > > I am accompanied by Peruvian friends who are helping me avoid this. We
> > > will return tomorrow and every day thereafter until I get the 30-day
> > > extension I need to leave the country. They mentioned paying $1 per day
> > > stayed beyond the 90-day Visa along with the airport departure tax of
> > > $30.24, but I am told there is no Migratory office at the airport. Lan
> > > told me to pay $10 per day.
> > >
> > > Once I have the extension, hoping by the 27th, I am waiting for my
> > > ticket back to Chicago that week. If Peruvian Migrations doesn't
> > > concede, I might see about the U.S. Embassy getting involved because it
> > > is ridiculously wrong. I already paid for the extension and they won't
> > > give me a refund (then I would have money to call Cheaptickets.com).
> > >
> > > I am working hard to get money to call again, yet I am not sure they
> > > will have a solution. They might say they have no control over the Lan
> > > segment of my flight. The problem here is flying with distinct airline
> > > policies.
> > >
> > > HELP!!!
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