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Immigration rather than customs[*], but yeah. [*] Customs deal with the flow of things, whereas immigration services deal with the flow of people.
by aix1 5y ago
Immigration rather than customs[*], but yeah.
[*] Customs deal with the flow of things, whereas immigration services deal with the flow of people.
- jtakkala 5y agoCorrect, and generally known as ‘passport control’ in Europe and many other countries. I think ‘immigration’ is primarily used by English speaking New World countries which historically had large scale immigration (as in, settlement) programs after the world wars—although I don’t have a definitive source for this.
- aix1 5y agoRight, and in the UK we call personnel working at passport control immigration officers: https://nationalcareers.service.gov.uk/job-profiles/immigration-officer https://nationalcareers.service.gov.uk/job-profiles/immigrat... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_officer#United_Kingdom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_officer#United_Kin...