Air America breaking news: "USA to fingerprint ALL visitors !!!"

So the message is visiting the USA is more trouble than its worth so I'll go
some place else.

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"nobody760" wrote:

So the message is visiting the USA is more trouble than its worth so I'll go
some place else.

Yeah, that two minute fingerprinting and photo is *sooo* hard after a
six-hour plane flight...

....and even with that, it's still going to be faster than most customs
checks in 99% of the countries in the world.

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Slam on brakes accordingly.

"Chad Irby" schreef in bericht
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In article ,
"nobody760" wrote:

So the message is visiting the USA is more trouble than its worth so
I'll go
some place else.

Yeah, that two minute fingerprinting and photo is *sooo* hard after a
six-hour plane flight...

...and even with that, it's still going to be faster than most customs
checks in 99% of the countries in the world.

That's not true. US immigration queues are amongst the longest in the world.

Sjoerd

"Chad Irby" wrote in message
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In article ,
"nobody760" wrote:

So the message is visiting the USA is more trouble than its worth so
I'll go
some place else.

Yeah, that two minute fingerprinting and photo is *sooo* hard after a
six-hour plane flight...

...and even with that, it's still going to be faster than most customs
checks in 99% of the countries in the world.

You know this as a fact, do you?

Please note that we all have the rest of the world to visit. Why visit a
country which treats us as criminals?

On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 13:57:38 GMT, Chad Irby wrote:

In article ,
"nobody760" wrote:

So the message is visiting the USA is more trouble than its worth so I'll go
some place else.

Yeah, that two minute fingerprinting and photo is *sooo* hard after a
six-hour plane flight...

...and even with that, it's still going to be faster than most customs
checks in 99% of the countries in the world.

You don't get out very much do you?
--==++AJC++==--

"Chad Irby" skrev i meddelandet
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In article ,
"nobody760" wrote:

So the message is visiting the USA is more trouble than its worth so
I'll go
some place else.

Yeah, that two minute fingerprinting and photo is *sooo* hard after a
six-hour plane flight...

...and even with that, it's still going to be faster than most customs
checks in 99% of the countries in the world.
99% ? Interesting. I transferred recently in 6 minutes from International
to domestic including security check. Was in Sandefjord Norway.
How many transfers international-domestic are done in less 6 minutes in U.S
?

"Lennart Petersen" schreef in bericht
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99% ? Interesting. I transferred recently in 6 minutes from
International
to domestic including security check. Was in Sandefjord Norway.
How many transfers international-domestic are done in less 6 minutes in
U.S

In the last two weeks I entered:

Hong Kong wait at immigration about 2 minutes
Vietnam wait at immigration about 1 minute
Thailand wait at immigration about 3 minutes
Malaysia wait at immigration about 10 minutes
Vietnam wait at immigration about 10 minutes
Hong Kong wait at immigration about 1 minute
Mongolia got a visa on arrival which had to be processed wait at immigration
about 25 minutes
China wait at immigration about 5 minutes

My trips to the US wait at immigration has never been less than 10 minutes
and several times an hour or more.

Sjoerd

...and even with that, it's still going to be faster than most customs
checks in 99% of the countries in the world.

When I arrive at JFK, I often wait 10-30 minutes in line, and I am a
USA citizen. The other lines are worse, and this is without the finger-
printing and photographing. I contrast that to countries like Finland,
Sweden, Austria, and Switzerland, where I breeze by passport control
hardly slowing down. I am sure this is the same for Denmark, Norway,
Iceland, and many other European countries. Your 99% must exclude
Europe, right?


Pete

On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 15:08:54 GMT, "Pete"
wrote:

...and even with that, it's still going to be faster than most customs
checks in 99% of the countries in the world.

When I arrive at JFK, I often wait 10-30 minutes in line, and I am a
USA citizen. The other lines are worse, and this is without the finger-
printing and photographing. I contrast that to countries like Finland,
Sweden, Austria, and Switzerland, where I breeze by passport control
hardly slowing down. I am sure this is the same for Denmark, Norway,
Iceland, and many other European countries. Your 99% must exclude
Europe, right?


His 99% would exclude much of Asia as well. I would imagine it was the
first number that came in to his head rather than based on any actual
experience.
--==++AJC++==--

On Sat, 03 Apr 2004 13:57:38 GMT, Chad Irby wrote:

.and even with that, it's still going to be faster than most customs
checks in 99% of the countries in the world.

Say what? The US is one of a few countries that doesn't allow arriving
passengers to pick a green lane if they have nothing to declare.

Mexico is another exception, but I seen others lately that I can
recall.

Are you perhaps immigration with customs?