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Originally Posted by Kiwi Flyer
Some places dont care where they put the stamp, even on top of other stamps.
Some take care to find a used page ^ Some take care to find an empty page (Australia for instance :mad: ) Some even manage to stamp across the middle of 2 empty pages (US :mad: ). |
Originally Posted by kaboom36
It was at IAD few weeks ago. An US finest Immigration Officer stamped on my page 6 of the passport. The page lists important things to remember your passport. Has anyone been stamped at the similar page?
Yes the endorsement page ... idiot... |
Boooo to US Immigration/Customs --- I find them particularly annoying. While I understand that they're doing their jobs and have to keep the airport/country safe from terrorism, illegal entry, drugs etc...but why is it that they treat everyone but I mean absolutely EVERYONE like a common criminal? You know what you should do next time you approach the desk with your partner? Just tell them you're brothers (or sisters...sorry I don't know your gender) even if you have different surnames especially if you're living under the same roof. They'd never know the difference anyway.
Originally Posted by JK-SFO
Both my partner and I are US citizens and when we return to the US together, we usually approach the passport control desk together - just like we do for the airline and hotel check-in desks, UK immigration desks, everything else we do together in our lives, etc.
Most of the time we are asked "Are you family, with one form - if not, one of you has to step back and wait until I complete the first person's entry and then I'll call up the second person." Sometimes this is said nicely (and almost apologetically) and sometimes very harshly. I think I have been selected for agricultural screening once when we both went up together, because all I had with me was chocolates in a wrapped & sealed box - even the customs/agriculture inspector said "you should not have been sent here." Of course, if we were allowed to marry each other, we would be "family," have one form and be able to be admitted back to the US together. BUT WE ARE NOT ALLOWED TO MARRY, so we find this process very annoying and unpleasant every time we come back home. :( JK-SFO |
The 1, 2 or 3 refer to the amount of people covered by the customs form. I learned this when a sleepy idiot agent makred us a TWO when we were THREE and were then sent to secondary and asked ten times where our "other" form was. The only way out of such a mess was to go back upstairs to the same agent who made the mistake and have him stamp and change the form to a "3".
One of these geniouses actually stamped the photo page in a previous passport. |
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