Funniest thing you have heard from customs upon reentering your home country?
Oct 20, 2015, 10:13 am
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Nor do I. A U.S. passport doesn't have the holder's current address. The only places it mentions a state are (a) where the holder was born and (b) where the passport was issued. I don't think passports are issued in NM. That leaves (a). Even if the customs person thought it meant Mexico, surely this wouldn't have been the first U.S. citizen he/she had ever seen who was born somewhere else.
Oct 20, 2015, 10:17 am
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Nor do I. A U.S. passport doesn't have the holder's current address. The only places it mentions a state are (a) where the holder was born and (b) where the passport was issued. I don't think passports are issued in NM. That leaves (a). Even if the customs person thought it meant Mexico, surely this wouldn't have been the first U.S. citizen he/she had ever seen who was born somewhere else.
Oct 20, 2015, 10:18 am
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Weird test on the part of the agent
Nor do I. A U.S. passport doesn't have the holder's current address. The only places it mentions a state are (a) where the holder was born and (b) where the passport was issued. I don't think passports are issued in NM. That leaves (a). Even if the customs person thought it meant Mexico, surely this wouldn't have been the first U.S. citizen he/she had ever seen who was born somewhere else.
Oct 20, 2015, 1:28 pm
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Oct 20, 2015, 2:01 pm
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I know, I was being charitable. I figured someone who is not an obsessesive Flyertalk type could be inaccurate and say passport when he meant driver's license.
I suppose I prefer that to the alternative that the story is utter nonsense and made up from the poster's imagination.
I suppose I prefer that to the alternative that the story is utter nonsense and made up from the poster's imagination.
Oct 20, 2015, 3:26 pm
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Nor do I. A U.S. passport doesn't have the holder's current address. The only places it mentions a state are (a) where the holder was born and (b) where the passport was issued. I don't think passports are issued in NM. That leaves (a). Even if the customs person thought it meant Mexico, surely this wouldn't have been the first U.S. citizen he/she had ever seen who was born somewhere else.
Mine lists place of birth as <state>, USA
Hers lists place of birth as <country>
Oct 21, 2015, 6:39 am
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Oct 26, 2015, 5:51 pm
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Not re entering my home country but. . . I have made a number of trips to Central Asia with a medical NGO, always on TK and connecting in IST. The immigration officer in IST checks my passport and visas and says:
Do you know any vamps?
Me: Vamps?
Him: You know, they suck blood.
Me: No. . . why would I?
Him: But it says here. (Pointing to the front page of my passport.)
Me: ( a bit slow after an overnight in Y). Oh, yes I was born in Pennsylvania, but that isn't anywhere near Transylvania.
Do you know any vamps?
Me: Vamps?
Him: You know, they suck blood.
Me: No. . . why would I?
Him: But it says here. (Pointing to the front page of my passport.)
Me: ( a bit slow after an overnight in Y). Oh, yes I was born in Pennsylvania, but that isn't anywhere near Transylvania.
Oct 27, 2015, 5:01 am
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Many US passports list a place of birth with just the country of birth listed.
US citizens born abroad -- whether natural-born US citizens or naturalized US citizens -- routinely have just the foreign country of birth listed in the US passport.
US citizens born abroad -- whether natural-born US citizens or naturalized US citizens -- routinely have just the foreign country of birth listed in the US passport.
Oct 27, 2015, 6:52 am
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Oct 27, 2015, 9:30 am
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Oct 27, 2015, 11:56 am
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Early 2000s at the Queenstown-Lewiston border crossing in New York, after checking my passport, the border agent ask me to pull into a garage. He closed the lane and walked behind my car. After pulling in, I was asked by the agent if he could hop into the driver seat. I consented and asked if there was a problem. "Oh, no problems. You are fine. I just wanted to see what it was like to drive this thing. Can I rev the engine?" At the time, I owned a rare, limited edition vehicle and the agent was a gearhead that wanted a closer look.
Oct 27, 2015, 7:31 pm
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Early 2000s at the Queenstown-Lewiston border crossing in New York, after checking my passport, the border agent ask me to pull into a garage. He closed the lane and walked behind my car. After pulling in, I was asked by the agent if he could hop into the driver seat. I consented and asked if there was a problem. "Oh, no problems. You are fine. I just wanted to see what it was like to drive this thing. Can I rev the engine?" At the time, I owned a rare, limited edition vehicle and the agent was a gearhead that wanted a closer look.