AKA: U.S. Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology
So US Immigration now can photograph and fingerprint people coming into American airports starting today… And here’s me flying there in a little over 2 weeks time.
Great.
I know as I’m flying from the UK, I won’t be photographed or fingerprinted (cause Tony Blair is Dubyah’s lapdog) but my major complaint is it will take even longer to clear Immigration and Customs now… Lord knows it takes long enough as it is, but waiting for people to be photographed and fingerprinted, jeez, that’s gonna take forever!
Typical scene is this, you step off the plane and enter the arrivals hall… Most (if not all) US airports are like this, 100 gates for US Citizens and 1 for the rest of the world! I kid you not. I hate standing in line like a mook while plane load after plane load of Americans breeze by like it ain’t no thing. And this will make matter worse…
Even if they could take my fingerprints, they ain’t gonna get them, I’ll shave them off like Kevin Spacey in Se7en.
Meanwhile BA flight 223 continues it’s merry dance which is becoming a farce the more it goes on… I once sat on that flight, yeah about 3 years ago on my way to Detroit, not by choice though as my flight from Heathrow to Detroit Metro was cancelled (terrorist threat??) so I was rerouted via Washington Dulles then up to Detroit. It was a nice flight, watched Gone in 60 Seconds and Mission to Mars (how appropriate nowadays) during it. I was bumped up to business class for my worries, so it was simply superb treatment.