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Old Aug 14, 2018, 4:49 am
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SirJman
 
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: BKK/SEL/YQG
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APEC card is now virtually useless at DMK arrivals.

To 'promote' tourism from China, they turned 50% of their previously 'Foreigner' immigration queues into 'China Passport Only' lanes. That shouldn't have been an issue for us with APEC...wrong.

Now that the China-only queues are directly next to APEC/Diplomat/Priority counter, they are filtering all babies, and their extended families now into it. On Friday, a typical 5min wait took me 35... as there were 7 babies, and 20 or so family members in the queue when I arrived. The entire time I stood and waited, a dedicated immigration officer was spending her time finding the families from the China queues and bringing them in.

By the time I cleared the line was twice as long as when I arrived, so an hour for anyone arriving at the back...
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