Originally Posted by
Spiff
Between the use of fingerprinting for customs and "security" crap like this, plus the added reciprocity fee for US citizens payable only in advance
Well I sure felt stupid about the revenue from the reciprocity fee while I waited 50 minutes at inbound immigration at EZE watching the various agents work for ten minutes, get up, talk to each other, take a break, move people into other queues (a bunch of people from the back of the line were channeled into Mercosur, leaving those of us who had waited longest to keep waiting), etc. And I must have been asked ten times about my proof of the fee at both entry ports. What was weird is I also took the BuqueBus to Colonia Uruguay on a day trip, and the inbound Argentina immigration there was completely perfunctory, no camera, no fingerprint. And I could have brought water :-)