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Travelling to the USA
There's been a lot written about the upcoming changes to immigration (ie finger printing and photos) for all travellers, including those on the visa waiver program (such as the UK). I'm not going to comment on the rights or wrongs, but rather remark on what the undersecretary for border and transportation security said. He said "[the security measures] should not create massive backlogs ... it takes only 23 seconds per person to take fingerprints and photos and check them against government files". Nicely put, as it 23 seconds doesn't seem a lot. What's glossed over of course, is that 23 seconds is in addition to the normal routine, and it's cumulative. If you're third in the queue you wait 46 seconds, and so on. With 300 people on the average big plane (a rough guess), and the person at the back has to wait 300*23 seconds - that's 6900 seconds or 115 minutes. Nearly 2 hours. Hmm, nice.
posted on Monday, April 05, 2004 5:58 PM Print
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