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Old 10-05-2008, 12:39 PM
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Originally Posted by ontheroad View Post
Once, I'd been living in the US for 3 years, this was after 9/11, I was coming back from summer holidays with my kids, and after a 2 hour queue, the immigration officer at JFK refused to let me in because my visa was not under the same name as my passport. Although I'd gotten in no problem dozens of times before. There sticklers-for-rules-to-the-bloody-letter at immigration offices all over the world. The US was the worse.
If they were such sticklers, there wouldn't have been a difference in the visa and passport names in the first place and the loopholes aiding the perprtrators of 9/11 would not have been there.
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