Dokument #1139818
IRB – Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada (Autor)
According to a 1 May 1995 telephone
interview with an Immigration official at the Madrid's Barajas
International Airport, passports are checked and stamped with the
official stamp, for passengers on international flights coming from
and leaving for almost all countries, the only exceptions are those
countries belonging to the Schengen Accords: France, Germany,
Portugal, Spain and Benelux, i.e. Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg
(ibid.).
The Schengen Accords abolish "controls on
persons at the internal borders of the Schengen states" and came
into effect on 26 March 1995 (Keesing's Dec. 1994).
Therefore, a flight from one of the above-mentioned countries to
Spain, and vice-versa, is the equivalent of a domestic flight
within Spanish territory (ibid.).
A police inspector at Barcelona's El Prat
International Airport stated in a 1 May 1995 telephone interview,
that the same procedure applies in Barcelona without exception.
However, the Barcelona Airport's stamp might appear less often in a
traveller's passport since most international flights are taken
from, and land at, Madrid's Barajas Airport.
This response was prepared after
researching publicly accessible information currently available to
the DIRB within time constraints. This response is not, and does
not purport to be, conclusive as to the merit of any particular
claim to refugee status or asylum.
Barajas International Airport, Madrid,
Spain. 1 May 1995. Telephone interview with Immigration
official.
El Prat International Airport,
Barcelona, Spain. 1 May 1995. Telephone interview with airport
police inspector.
Keesings Record of World Events
[Cambridge]. December 1994. Vol. 40, No. 12. "European Union," p.
40334.