[Leica] Oh Canada!

[spencer at aotera.org (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.
>