Originally Posted by dogcanyon
I think it's worth pointing out that there's a reason the US requires visas for Brazilian citizens: there are an estimated 300,000+ of them living and working illegally in the US already. As for the pointless "tit for tat" visas, reciprocity fees and fingerprinting, they are hurting themselves more than they are hurting the US. I love Brazil, but I'm not going back if I have to wait in a 3 hour "just for spite" immigration queue and I suspect that most other Americans feel the same.
As Economyman said now you know what we have to put up with. I personally avoid any and all travel to the US these days unless it is absolutely essential, why risk a 3 hour queue, rude security staff and capricious decision making, unless absolutely necessary? I used to visit 3 or 4 times a year through choice on leisure trips, now I fasvour Canada or the Middle East instead. What irks me most of all is the pretence of a "special relationship" bewteen the UK and US, special enough to send 1000's or troops to Iraq to provide a figleaf of multinationalism, but not special enough to treat UK citizens as friends rather than potential enemies.