I understand the importance of having proper documentation on hand, but I had never experienced this before with a European country-thats my main gripe. Compare what I experienced in London to arriving in nearly any other European country on a US passport. Some take a look through your passport and wave you through...sometimes others (Switzerland in my experience) donīt even bother to look in the passport. I was just being honest by leaving the address section blank, I could have made up an Irish address, but again the form said UK ADDRESS. I donīt know why I just didnīt write transit. He probably would have snapped at me that transit isnīt an address. Of course they have a right to ask whatever to let me enter....but again, I suppose the UK doesnīt have much faith in the Irish immigration controls if they treat transit passengers like myself as they did. Furthermore, why are Irish flights (yes open border whatever that means in reality, I really dont know, but still international) put in the domestic terminal? Isnīt the point of the open borders policy to reduce immigration controls??? If so, why do you still have to pass through both passport controls? That is what I donīt understand. I was just totally surprised to be questioned as I was by a British official and donīt understand the necessity of it, given tons of people arrive in Dublin directly from the US and have easy access to the UK...

I did email the airport and have contact information for the person who receives complaints about immigration officials. I will be contacting them once I have the time...Im somewhere in the Spanish countryside at the moment trying to forget about people like this one, if I can.