This must be the only rare instance where a property developer can practically apply knowledge gleaned from wasted years of having read private international law (conflict of laws) and apply the awareness of commonly accepted legal principles and practices to the creation of a free transit zone for the movement of people and capital. Guys, Soon Yee Yap Hong Keng Tee Gabriele Oteri This brief article very broadly and indeed accurately describes the status of transit zones and transit areas at airports and sea ports around the world. Simply put, the free transit zone is an area where certain municipal laws of that jurisdiction are suspended. Those laws will invariably include immigration, tax and banking laws which effectively allow the duty free trade and the presence of non-citizen foreigners within who may not otherwise have valid travel documents or visas to cross the customs and immigration barrier of that particular sovereign state. fromthesidebar/2013/07/16/law-of-airport-transit-zones-the-legal-fiction-of-ed-snowdens-status-in-russia-2/ Law of Airport Transit Zones – The Legal Fiction of Ed Snowden’s Status in Russia | From The Sidebar
Posted on: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 01:20:22 +0000