What does mean to be "punished from a pseudo potential"?

I live in a country whose people need to earn different type of visas for traveling abroad.Unfortunately,not every kind of emby or consolate is so "eager" to do us such a favor or make easy the idea,on the contrary, many of them try so hard to make our "temptation" very difficult as many as we get bore with final idea to give up once forever! But, imagine, even with the very important governmental activities....!!! Is it so much neccessary to act like that with those who are in need? And the human right for free moving??? Hard to believe, harder to prove and the hardest thing, the missing hope to resolve it once forever! (It's been a very bad recent experience all written above, unfortunately!!!). Thank you!