Slow change scam from airport immigration officers
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Arrived PP today, absolutely no hassles or hints that i should contribute to family matters. Very speedy processing. Then came a shock - at immigration they took all ten of my fingerprints! What are all fugitives on the FBI Top 10 going to do now? I guess it's only a matter of time before Pochentong goes realtime with Interpol. Plus the officer was rude and had a ridiculing voice when i did not immediately understand in which order i should put the fingers and thumbs on the scanner.
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^ Scanning all fingerprints is standard for first time visitors, which I believe you are judging from your previous posts, and why is that such a big deal anyway? It's not like you have to scan each finger individually, it's a quick and painless process as long as you follow the Immigration officers instructions.
I'm not a negative person, I encourage people all the time...it's usually to f**k off! But, whatever.
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Yes, this is my first visit to Cambodia. Why is fingerprinting such a big deal for me? I guess You belong to the people who don't have any problems with a cashless society either. Even EU and Japan only scan one or two fingers.PSD_Kiwi wrote:^ Scanning all fingerprints is standard for first time visitors, which I believe you are judging from your previous posts, and why is that such a big deal anyway? It's not like you have to scan each finger individually, it's a quick and painless process as long as you follow the Immigration officers instructions.
And there WERE no instructions, just a ridiculing smile on the officer's face with equally ridiculing comments in an English so accented I could not easily understand it, followed by more sarcastic comments (no, I don't have a recording to prove). It would have cost the national budget very little to put up instruction signs at every counter with pictures saying "1. Put all right hand fingers (excluding the thumb in the UPPER green area (the bottom area of the scanner is a darker shade of green and it seems like it is not used). 2. When the officer tells You, put the right hand THUMB in the......" and so on. Or maybe have a monitor on the desk guiding You through the process. Just some common politeness. Oh, and for the first time our whole family could not process together, even Japan allows that.
My main issue with the fingerprinting is that it is not announced in advance in any way, there are no instructions and the officer's behaviour was rude. Takes very little effort to make a better first impression. The officer's at the visa counter on the other hand were thoroughly polite. As vere all other people I've met so far.
Have to stop now, there's a black helicopter coming closer to my hotel.....
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What were the ridiculing comments? Were they about your tiny hands?
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Immigration officers are getting damned surly these days, speaking of ridiculing comments. First of all, many of them give you a disgusted look on arrival. And, no, I'm not a haggard-looking, dirty alcoholic foreigner.
Into Siem Reap last year, the c*nt stamped me in 3-4 blank pages into my diminishing passport, and upside down and in the middle of the page. I walked away and went back to ask if this was OK. Gave me a dismissive gesture and a grunt. On the way out, I gave a female officer a shoulder shrug when she saw where the stamp was. She looked over somewhere to other officer desks and then stamped me out.
Another time later, the officer threw the passport and almost off the counter top.
On the way in a couple of weeks ago, I handed the officer my passport and realized I'd forgotten to write in the visa number. I told him I could write it in for you. "Who's immigration? Are you immigration?" I said, "You are, sir". "You can stand over there," pointing to the lineup. It was a strange exchange. He did his job but what a miserable bunch overall.
I thought the Viets were grouchy. Have to say they've been better lately at SGN Airport.
Into Siem Reap last year, the c*nt stamped me in 3-4 blank pages into my diminishing passport, and upside down and in the middle of the page. I walked away and went back to ask if this was OK. Gave me a dismissive gesture and a grunt. On the way out, I gave a female officer a shoulder shrug when she saw where the stamp was. She looked over somewhere to other officer desks and then stamped me out.
Another time later, the officer threw the passport and almost off the counter top.
On the way in a couple of weeks ago, I handed the officer my passport and realized I'd forgotten to write in the visa number. I told him I could write it in for you. "Who's immigration? Are you immigration?" I said, "You are, sir". "You can stand over there," pointing to the lineup. It was a strange exchange. He did his job but what a miserable bunch overall.
I thought the Viets were grouchy. Have to say they've been better lately at SGN Airport.
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Have to stop now, there's a black helicopter coming closer to my hotel.....
An immigration agent probably lives close by.
Seriously. I don't get all these cry babies bitching about simple traveling experiences. It's no wonder they look pissed off when you're the 2000th clueless peanut to bumble through.
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Yeah, it's not easy to get a hello or good morning out of them in English or Khmer.PenhMan wrote:Immigration officers are getting damned surly these days, speaking of ridiculing comments. First of all, many of them give you a disgusted look on arrival. And, no, I'm not a haggard-looking, dirty alcoholic foreigner.
Into Siem Reap last year, the c*nt stamped me in 3-4 blank pages into my diminishing passport, and upside down and in the middle of the page. I walked away and went back to ask if this was OK. Gave me a dismissive gesture and a grunt. On the way out, I gave a female officer a shoulder shrug when she saw where the stamp was. She looked over somewhere to other officer desks and then stamped me out.
Another time later, the officer threw the passport and almost off the counter top.
On the way in a couple of weeks ago, I handed the officer my passport and realized I'd forgotten to write in the visa number. I told him I could write it in for you. "Who's immigration? Are you immigration?" I said, "You are, sir". "You can stand over there," pointing to the lineup. It was a strange exchange. He did his job but what a miserable bunch overall.
I thought the Viets were grouchy. Have to say they've been better lately at SGN Airport.
I've given up being friendly and just scowl back at them. They seem to appreciate this.
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I was once chastised a few years ago by immigration at PNH as I had a 50$ bill folded between one of my passport pages which I didn't know about. They called me over sternly... says this is a big problem or what I did was very bad or something like that and handed me the 50$ bill. I didn't know it was there so just apologized and thanked them. Guy warned me quite sternly to never do that again! Maybe they thought I was testing them or something?
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In some countries it is assumed to be bribe if you have cash in your passport when handing it to an official. I remember when visiting an Eastern European country (I think it was Belarus) there were signs up saying this in the airport.kansaicanuck wrote:I was once chastised a few years ago by immigration at PNH as I had a 50$ bill folded between one of my passport pages which I didn't know about. They called me over sternly... says this is a big problem or what I did was very bad or something like that and handed me the 50$ bill. I didn't know it was there so just apologized and thanked them. Guy warned me quite sternly to never do that again! Maybe they thought I was testing them or something?
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GM - I've got size 12 hands, so, no don't think that.gavinmac wrote:What were the ridiculing comments? Were they about your tiny hands?
Playboy - I'm Swedish, not American. And there is no part of Sweden called Florida. And I guess in Florida they hand out cartoons on the flight showing the procedure, usually the Americans are great at explaining things to even the dumbest of visitors.
Ok, I walk up to the counter, immigration officer spews out something like "fimpin", I e fingerprint. I hesitate and then try to put my fingers on the scanner, which features a bottom area 4cm or so which is covered by semi-translucent green plastic. The upper 4 inches or so just have this yellow-green glass. Now, is it obvious where to put your finger or that You are supposed to put all four finger but not the thumb on the UPPER art? Officer sees my hesitation, reclines hiss body and in particular his head, stiffens his upper lip, and in his best Queen's English spits out "-foofingaah, foffingaah" (four fingers), meaning that he wants me to put my four FINGERS (thumb obviously not counted as a finger) on the scanner. I then put my fingers and thumb on the bottom part since I find it diffucult to understand why You mark off a certain part of the scanner if You donn't intend to use it. Why then not mark it with black tape, red crosshatch or some other internationally recognized symbol for "NO".
This, to put it mildly, does not impress said immigration officer. He tells me rudely to put only the fingers and not the thumb on the top part before reclining back into is headmaster style position of amusement. Anyway, I eventually succeed in passing all four levels of consciense (ringt fingers, right thumb, left fingers, left thumd) and get my passport stamped.
Now, this is not like being interrogated in Abu Ghraib, but why not put up a sign if I m the 2000th fuckface that week to do the same mistake. And if I was the first idiot to emerge at the counter, why not show consideration?
It probably goes natural to all You old Cambodia hands out there but I found it an unsettling first experience. Anyway, everything elso so far has been smooth.
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^Fucking heel its hardly injustice of the month is it. Seems there's one Bjorn every minute.
My posts are just jokes, maybe they're rude, offensive, and politically incorrect. They're not my opinion, viewpoint, idea, or judgement, but they're just fucking jokes so lighten up.
Bit surprising, really, I've found their fingerprinting procedure rather intuitive. The reader is indicating which finger(s) to put on next, you do that, done.
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