Oh my, I had the reverse...US citizen entering SYD, and the agent who did my electronic travel auth apparently had a typo in my birthdate. I got pulled to the side by a supervisor who was pleasant and said she'd have to fix it in the system. I took a seat, and she came back less than 5 minutes later with my passport stamped, "Enjoy your holiday, Sir," she said. On leaving the terminal, I said to my partner, "Could you imagine if this happened to someone in the U.S.? We treat people so badly, we'd put them under a bright light and hold them hostage for an hour."

Sorry, Sydfly, for how poorly we treat our visitors.