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>> all Americans were out of a sudden required by the Brazilian authorities to get pictures taken at the Brazilian customs I'm curious why this would be such a
by PakG1 16y ago
>> all Americans were out of a sudden required by the Brazilian authorities to get pictures taken at the Brazilian customs
I'm curious why this would be such a hassle. I work in China right now and every time I go through customs, there's a little web cam there that takes a photo of me while the customs officer looks at my passport and stamps it. I think both foreigners and citizens experience it. Adds no time to the process at all. I even see my photo on the computer screen if the screen is angled right.
Unless Brazil simply doesn't have the ability to set up this kind of tech....
- felipe 16y agoI also live in China. 1. In China the system is set-up for that. The little web-cam and the system are integrated with a push of a button, and the process is very quick. In Brazil they didn't have anything. They were taking pictures with off-the-shelf digital cameras, and I read an article saying that they did not even have a system set-up to transfer the pictures out! It was really something implemented overnight, clearly just to piss people off. 2. Sorry if I was not clear, but my point about the hassle was not much the picture itself, but the fact that Americans were singled-out and placed on a different line. This is borderline racist IMO. Note: Brazil eliminated this stupid policy a while ago. I mentioned it just as an example.
- dalore 16y agoThey have that webcam picture experience in the US too, at least for non-citizens.