Reply #29: On the other hand, it nearly made me late for a plane in Toronto [View All]

[muriel_volestrangler]

Working in the USA (I'm British), I'd been sent to a customer in Toronto (with an American colleague travelling on his birth certificate and driving licence). Coming back to the USA, he gets waved straight through, while an immigration official decided she didn't like the look of my (perfectly valid) visa for working in the US, and started questioning me. After I'd had to list the computer languages that I used in my work (and I thought she was going to demand a sample program), she finally let me through - with just a couple of minutes to spare before they closed the flight. I wish they'd put up signs saying "warning: non-US or Canadian passengers will get delayed at immigration - allow 10 more minutes to be able to board your flight than everyone else".