A passport is where the visas go.
I love it when ita gets all logical. Thing of beauty.
Bunch of wanna blessed-bes. Nowadays every girl with a henna tattoo and a spice rack thinks she's a sister to the dark ones.
Willow ,'Bring On The Night'
Natter 68: Bork Bork Bork
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Burrell - Apr 25, 2011 10:57:17 am PDT #5152 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
le nubian - Apr 25, 2011 11:01:37 am PDT #5153 of 30001
"And to be clear, I am the hell. And the high water."
French-Canadian border guards are not very nice people
no shit. But most of the Canadian border guards in airports have not been all that pleasant. As a traveler, I'm not that pleasant either though.
megan walker - Apr 25, 2011 11:02:55 am PDT #5154 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
The US confuses the issue a little by having some of their checkpoints located in the foreign airport. So for example you have to show a passport before you board a plane from Montreal to New York.
The US also makes airlines collect all nationalty info before boarding and if doesn't match exactly to entry at US Customs they face a stiff fine.
My general impression regarding the USA/Canada border has been that the Canadian border guards are all "Welcome to our country! Have a pleasant visit!" while the American ones are more "Who the fuck are you and why should we let you in?!?"
This was not at all my experience, as I spent over an hour after my last flight to Toronto trying to explain to immigration that, no, I was not moving to Canada.
§ ita § - Apr 25, 2011 11:05:37 am PDT #5155 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Most of my Canadian border crossings have not been into Quebec. But the border guards are about averagely assholish, slanted to more when I listened to one in particular run through "We're gonna get you, don't even look at Vancouver funny" threats. It was depressingly mechanical bullying.
Consuela - Apr 25, 2011 11:19:14 am PDT #5156 of 30001
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
The Canadian border guards I have met have generally been suspicious of why I would want to go to Prince George, BC. The answer that an internet friend lives there doesn't impress them.
bon bon - Apr 25, 2011 11:31:20 am PDT #5157 of 30001
It's five thousand for kissing, ten thousand for snuggling... End of list.
I'm ok if border guards are assholes. They're not the welcoming committee.
meara - Apr 25, 2011 11:48:21 am PDT #5158 of 30001
Yeah, the one time I've driven to Canada they were mean, but the airport ones have always been nice enough. I don't need super friendly, just efficient and not mean.
Dana - Apr 25, 2011 11:57:19 am PDT #5159 of 30001
I haven't trusted science since I saw the film "Flubber."
I'm waiting for shrift's Canada border crossing story, which involves a bridesmaid's dress.
megan walker - Apr 25, 2011 11:57:26 am PDT #5160 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
I don't need super friendly, just efficient and not mean.
Yeah, I don't need super friendly, but asking me over and over if I want to change my "story", and telling me over and over that it will be "easier for me if I admit everything now", just because (apparently) I was a woman traveling alone? Not cool. Lucky I was actually visiting friends who could "confirm my story" after I insisted that, really, as a bilingual French-English doctorate holder, did they really think I couldn't figure out a way to move to Canada legally?
§ ita § - Apr 25, 2011 11:57:38 am PDT #5161 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm not okay with anyone being assholes without provocation. Why bother? I am all for a default of detached near-pleasantness.
Speaking of mean: [link] (yeah, that link says homosocial nipple sucking--don't click if you don't want to know).