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Old Jun 12, 2019, 5:22 pm
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Loren Pechtel
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Why does it so often seem immigration officials don't understand that imperfect English isn't an attempt to be evasive? We are usually clearing immigration at what is after midnight by our clocks and my wife learned her first word of English at age 43. When we are asked what food we are bringing if she doesn't instantly snap out a list I feel like they get suspicious. By then the official has scanned our passports, I would assume they can see she's naturalized rather than native born and based on the declared country they should see it's very late at night for us, not bright eyed and bushy tailed time.
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