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If it makes you feel any better, I get more questions from US border control than any other country I've visited, and I'm an American, so it's not just foreigne
by tallanvor 16y ago
If it makes you feel any better, I get more questions from US border control than any other country I've visited, and I'm an American, so it's not just foreigners they treat like crap.
- ErrantX 16y agoMake the mistake of entering Israel with a passport stamped for an Arab country and you will probably put the US second :) Perfectly civil.. but a LOT of questions, over and over and over.
- tallanvor 16y agoThat's quite possible. I admit that the 20 or so countries I've visited isn't enough to say for sure that the US border controls are the worst, just the worst I've experienced so far. :)
- jdp23 16y agoBack in 1990 I lost my passport in Turkey, got a temporary one at the US Consulate there, and then got it extended in Munich (where I was living at the time). As part of this they crossed out the 90-day expiration date, and wrote in "see page 16" by hand, where the consular stamp etc. appeared. A month later I had a business trip to Israel for a business trip and decided to continue on to Cairo for vacation. They questioned me for about an hour at Ben Gurion as I left the country ... and who could blame them?
- ErrantX 16y agoHeh indeed! We landed in Israel and I realised I had handed over the wrong passport (as we work in the region a lot we all have a 2nd passport for Israel, it is just sensible), cue face to palm moment. They "detained" me for about 45 minutes, but I have heard of people taking longer (and, in fairness, shorter).
- arethuza 16y agoWhy do they you anything you go back in? I've never been asked any questions when returning into the UK.