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MUST KNOW Immigration Questions at the Airport (+ Answers)

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To avoid problems, always prepare for these customs and immigration questions at the airport!
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@ProjectUntethered Creator 2 years ago (edited) Pinned

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@joep3525 2 years ago

"What's the purpose of your trip to Venice?" Food and Wine. He smiled.

@Braun30 2 years ago

Atlanta Airport
"What is the purpose of your trip?"
"Business"
"What sort of business?"
"Steel"
"I hope the material and not the verb"
"laugh"
"Welcome to the US+

@Volkaer 2 years ago

"Do you have any explosives in your checked in baggage?"
"Oh not this time, I needed the space for all the drugs"

@ImaginationTravelTips 2 years ago

I went to London twice in two weeks and was really grilled. My favorite question was, “are you here for medicine?”

@bighoss9705 2 years ago

I find it easier to print out my Intinerary and keep it with me to show immigration.

@mcmoose64 2 years ago

A few years ago , two young ladies I knew (sisters)copped the full 3rd degree from US immigration. The officer could not believe that two young retail workers could afford international travel . He was unaware that the Australian minimum wage was enough to live reasonably comfortably at the time , particularly since they shared an appartment. He staight out accused them of lying when they explained that the recieved four weeks of fully paid holidays, with a 10% loading, every year .

@cijmo 2 years ago

Another thing that is careless to say, when they ask what your plans are or why you're vacationing here - is to say "just look around or see what there is." Yes, there are people who like throwing darts at a map and just going to see what they can see but it's a really sloppy answer. Even if you have no intention on seeing things, just pull up a travel site about where you're going and put a few things on the list. It's also just not a good place to cop an attitude. Yes, "Where is your husband? Does he let you travel alone?" are really annoying but it's not the time to tell them they're asking stupid questions. Maybe they're a jerk and want you to get fresh with them so they have to keep you longer ... just answer the questions and give them no reason to keep you there any longer.

@GiantEagle610 2 years ago

Put everything in a file with organizer. Customs is happier. They will get annoyed if you start digging through pages looking for air ticket, hotel reservations

@tracerocks 1 year ago

When asked by Australian customs if you have any felonies do not say that you thought that was no longer a requirement.

@CatsMeowPaw 2 years ago

Always carry a printed itinerary of your full trip with you. In Japan I got asked about my return flights to Australia, because I wanted a quick visit to South Korea and then return to Japan. I was asked the same questions in Korea.

The most intense questioning I had was in the USA, after a 17 hour flight. Great. I was there for holidays and see the 2017 eclipse, so the officer started asking me where I'll see the eclipse, and why I didn't choose better location X and Y. He also asked what equipment I have with me. You'd better be ready to quickly answer detailed questions and not be vague, even after being awake for more than 24 hours.

@philipmullins5185 2 years ago

Don't rely solely on mobile phones to store information because they can stop when you least expect it .
I had a problem where the screen of my mobile phone would not open because the button became faulty when I had to travel the airport .
I prefer also to have my travel details in printed paper form because it is so easy to access .

@elinars5638 2 years ago

Usually they're good at figuring out if your responses are a bit dodgy but your visit is legit. Once in a while your responses could be perfect but they still give you a hard time.

@stephancox9105 2 years ago

Canada's border authorities--the CBSA, as well as their predecessors at Canada Customs & Revenue and Citizenship & Immigration Canada--always found me suspicious enough to set me aside for Secondary Inpsection. They've never turned me away, and honestly they ended up wasting their own time as much they've wasted mine. But some of their inspection methods and lines of questioning were bizarre. There was a time in my life when I really liked to wear a suit everywhere I went; an inspector once asked "You're here for pleasure. Why are you dressed like you're going to a job interview?" Another time, an inspector saw my medications (in their properly-labeled prescription bottles) and asked me "What will you do when the condition you take your medication for flares up?" (I think the inspector was concerned that I might try to steal Canadian healthcare from Canadian citizens.) They were especially concerned with both what I did for work and how much money I had, since my travels to Canada often involved the country's most expensive city: Vancouver. One little thing that raises red flags to Canadian border guards is if the traveler had just turned 19, since that is the legal drinking age and youngsters like to travel up that way to legally drink and party.

@CaribouEno 2 years ago

As I am a citizen of an EU country I did not have had that question but the US friend I was travelling with me was asked in Rome what was the purpose of his visit - he replied "Wine, Food, and the Vatican museums" - that was a very fast admitted stamp.

@christophermcdonald1122 2 years ago

Traveling is one time when I recommend going old school. Print out confirmations of your return/onward flights, accommodation and any ground transportation (e.g. onward rail tickets). This way you can present this to the officer when asked without having to hand over your phone.

We also sometimes travel on one-way tickets (because we often do airline frequent flyer redemptions) and we often have to present a copy of our onward/next flight with Airline B in order to check in for our inbound flight with Airline A. Again, the printout helps.

@DunRovinRanch-1969 2 years ago

I was traveling overland from Honduras to El Salvador. When asked for my visa by the border comandante I replied in my best Humphrey Bogart “visa? I don’t need no stinking visa”. I was escorted out of the country at gunpoint

@Makalon102 2 years ago

12:36 i would gp one step further and carry a backup phone too, one unfortunate drop and you could be stranded

@JMidwest1999 2 years ago

We moved to Australia in 1998 for my husbands job for 3 years with a baby and 3 year old and had big boxes of things because our whole house contents was being shipped to us and would take weeks to get to us in Australia. We had a toy clock, that our daughter loved, in one of the boxes and it started to tick and could be heard through the box. They had put our 4 big boxes of things and our luggage in a room where we had to pick it all up. They heard it and we just told them what it was and they said ok. That would never happen these days. I thought that they would have us open the box and show them, but they didn’t.

@funshinebear4835 1 year ago

I had no idea immigrations liked playing 20 questions on my first international trip. Had an itinerary for a travel group I'd joined but hadn't memorized it. Had no idea off the top of my head where exactly I was going and couldn't recall the specific cities I'd been to when I returned. Lesson learned! 😊