You are barred from entering the country, you'll be deported back to Moldova now, a Turkish border control officer at Atatürk Airport in Istanbul explained to me in broken English, passing my documents to a promptly summoned policeman.

When you re ordered removed, the government puts you on a plane and they pay for that, she says. But when you re just expected to leave, then it s really your responsibility to comply and leave by that deadline and if you don t, then, you re here unlawfully and you re out of status.