What other languages do I speak?
Apr 5, 2016 | 7:38 am
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What other languages do I speak?
That was the question when handing in a receipt from the Global Entry kiosk at MIA recently. The agent asked where I had been, and then "What other languages do you speak?"
I do not speak the main language of the country I had visited, and I didn't think that other languages were any of his business. I answered "None well."
Is this something new from CBP? Was he just making conversation?
I do not speak the main language of the country I had visited, and I didn't think that other languages were any of his business. I answered "None well."
Is this something new from CBP? Was he just making conversation?
Apr 5, 2016 | 8:13 am
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That was the question when handing in a receipt from the Global Entry kiosk at MIA recently. The agent asked where I had been, and then "What other languages do you speak?"
I do not speak the main language of the country I had visited, and I didn't think that other languages were any of his business. I answered "None well."
Is this something new from CBP? Was he just making conversation?
I do not speak the main language of the country I had visited, and I didn't think that other languages were any of his business. I answered "None well."
Is this something new from CBP? Was he just making conversation?
Apr 5, 2016 | 8:25 am
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That was the question when handing in a receipt from the Global Entry kiosk at MIA recently. The agent asked where I had been, and then "What other languages do you speak?"
I do not speak the main language of the country I had visited, and I didn't think that other languages were any of his business. I answered "None well."
Is this something new from CBP? Was he just making conversation?
I do not speak the main language of the country I had visited, and I didn't think that other languages were any of his business. I answered "None well."
Is this something new from CBP? Was he just making conversation?
It's not something new, but it's also not very common for that question to be asked.
Just out of curiosity but which language(s) did your grandparents and great-grandparents speak as their native language(s)?
Apr 5, 2016 | 1:16 pm
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Another agent stopped me right after that, because I was skipping the baggage claim, but she didn't ask anything except "Carry-on only?"