THE thing about airport immigration queues is that you only get to experience how awful other countries’ are. A bit like driving, we swear at the idiots around us, while convincing ourselves of our own irreproachability because we never get to hear the exasperation of those we have just cut up. Still, Gulliver can think of nowhere in the rich world in which immigration is as consistently chaotic as America. Things have certainly improved with the introduction of ESTA visa system, but still the queues at American airports can last hours and the immigration officers tend towards an unappealing blend of the surly and the incompetent.
The Daily Telegraph reports that earlier this month travellers on a British Airways flight “waited up to 138 minutes to clear immigration at JFK”. So many of the 4m Britons who travel to the United States each year will no doubt be delighted to hear of a plan to station American immigration officers at two British airports, London Heathrow and Manchester. These will process...Continue reading
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