[Leica] Oh Canada!

[Spencer Cheng]

It’s a tough job to screen visitors at borders. US Immigration agents particularly lack any sense of humour. Be glad that you aren’t traveling on a Chinese passport. Those lucky people get lots of attention. There is an assumption that all them of them will try to stay in the USA illegally. It takes a few months for them to get a visa. [And so on…]

As for actual Canadian passport holders, I always try to clear US Immigration in Ottawa on the way out. If they decide not to let me into the US, I can always go home to my own bed.

To make this semi-relevant to the LUG, I’ve never been asked by US or Canadian Customs about Leica’s I was carrying. :)

Regards,
Spencer

On Aug 11, 2014, at 18:42, Nathan Wajsman <nwajsman at gmail.com> wrote:

> The thing is, at the airports it is not that bad these days. Of course it is easy for me to say, having a US passport, but I have been here on business a couple of times within the past 3-4 years, and my companions were not US citizens and so had to go through the foreigner line at the arrival airport, and still we all came throug immigration in roughly the same time. At the land border yesterday we were asked where we lived, what we had bought in Canada, who owned the car (and they wanted to see the rental agreement once we said it was rented), how long we had been in Canada. Our “interrogation” did not take that long, but some of the other cars were in the gate much longer than we, despite having either NY or Ontario license plates.
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