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Old Feb 9, 2017, 10:14 pm
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Loren Pechtel
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Originally Posted by 889
I assumed it was a check on the immigration staff or on people somehow slipping past.

(I can't say positively the guy put my visa page on the scanner, but that's what I recall.)
It keeps bad guys from slipping in under assumed identities.
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