boarder control

On the Thursday I flew back to the States. It was definitely a less than perfect experience. After a 10 hour flight from London to LA, I was just glad to have landed and off the plane... I didn't feel like this for very long. When we got to immigration I realised very quickly that the guy wasn't happy with me at. He was super quiet and thoughtful for ages, he asked me a few questions about why I was here and what my intentions were and continued to look through my passport inspecting my past work visas. Then this guy showed up from no where and I was asked to leave with him. Hmm, my mood deteriorated rapidly. I was taken to this little room, and the first thing i was told, "be prepared to be sent back to the UK today"... I was like 'Great!'. Just what I needed. It was so frustrating, as I knew I had all the information I needed to get into the country, but apparently having it on your phone or laptop isn't good enough, and the US immigration need it in paper. They continued to quiz me for over an hour about how they thought I was here to work Illegally and how I should be responsible and carry paper documents for everything. What the hell!? I've never needed to do that in the past. In the end they told me I either get paper proof that I'm leaving the US (flight itinerary) or leave. Whilst all this is going on the time between my connecting flight is ticking away, they were literally being as awkward and as obnoxious as possible. I was so frustrated I wanted to cry. Totally felt like a criminal. In the end Errol manage to get American Airlines to print off my itinerary and have it brought down to the immigration office, and then I was sent on my way... just in the nick of time to catch my next flight. Thank God. Definitely not what I needed. The most Ironic thing about the whole situation was that I would say none of the guys in immigration were original American nationals ... most of them were from the Philippines, some chinese and the rest I have no idea, but they certainly didn't originate from America.

Joys!