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[100attendees] Good experience with customs and immigration in Singapore

Brian Reid <reid@isc.org> Thu, 09 November 2017 02:44 UTC

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Subject: [100attendees] Good experience with customs and immigration in Singapore
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I've arrived in Singapore. The arrival experience was simple and 
straightforward. The experience was no different from arrival in any 
other first-world country (except the USA, which can be a hassle).

I injured my knee yesterday so I checked my bag. While I waited for it 
to show up on the belt, I watched the customs lines. I saw about 100 
people walk through the green "nothing to declare" line. Not one of them 
was stopped.

This stands in stark contrast to my very negative airport experiences in 
Hyderabad for an ICANN meeting last year, at which I was held for 2 
hours by the army in a locked room at the airport while they did 
something never revealed to me. That was the very same day that 
1000-rupee notes were disavowed by the Modi government, which added 
injury to insult.

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