Can someone help me?
Oct 23rd 2009, 8:57 pm
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lansbury -I was going to say that. It was considered a domestic flight.
BritishGuy36 - When I came in through Dublin I did NOT have to clear customs again through Manchester, granted it was early but give me a break I wasnt going to question the man. He said I was clear to enter who am I to check his work twice. I know nothing of what "he" is supposed to do, thats not my job... there isnt anything "rich" about it. Even the immigration officer in Manchester said he was in the wrong.
BritishGuy36 - When I came in through Dublin I did NOT have to clear customs again through Manchester, granted it was early but give me a break I wasnt going to question the man. He said I was clear to enter who am I to check his work twice. I know nothing of what "he" is supposed to do, thats not my job... there isnt anything "rich" about it. Even the immigration officer in Manchester said he was in the wrong.
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Oct 23rd 2009, 10:04 pm
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But you would need said visa to enter the UK again, as a resident; what other proof would you have?
Oct 23rd 2009, 10:49 pm
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I would be surprised if the immigration officer in Dublin hadn't stamped the passport somewhere, even if in this case it wasn't on the visa. But mistakes happen. Now the visa has been stamped it would seem to have ended to matter.
Oct 23rd 2009, 10:54 pm
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When you got off the plane from Dublin was it an immigration officer or just a man in a suit, who you assumed was immigration. I worked the Belfast and Dublin flights at Heathrow sometimes and people always assumed we were immigration. We didn't enlighten them.
Oct 24th 2009, 1:13 pm
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Hi lansbury. Thank you for writing back so quickly.
I first went through customs where they took this form that I filled out on the plane and then I went through (immigration, he was in a suit behind a glass cubicle with other officers in a row, some of them) He had a sign above him that said "other passports" and the others were for Im assuming Uk residents.
He took my passport from me looked it over. I had it opened onto my visa, he asked me if I had ever met my husband I kind of chuckled to myself thinking (how else could we have gotten married hehe
) but answered politely yes and told him I was going to live in Manchester, England and that it would be my final destination. He gave it back to me and I ran off (late for my other flight) Mind you- Im only 4'11" and could barely see over the podium he was in. So I was standing on my tippy toes trying to look into his cubicle. So I didnt know what he was doing or looking at in my passport.
Hope that helps explain the events a bit more clearly.
I first went through customs where they took this form that I filled out on the plane and then I went through (immigration, he was in a suit behind a glass cubicle with other officers in a row, some of them) He had a sign above him that said "other passports" and the others were for Im assuming Uk residents.
He took my passport from me looked it over. I had it opened onto my visa, he asked me if I had ever met my husband I kind of chuckled to myself thinking (how else could we have gotten married hehe
) but answered politely yes and told him I was going to live in Manchester, England and that it would be my final destination. He gave it back to me and I ran off (late for my other flight) Mind you- Im only 4'11" and could barely see over the podium he was in. So I was standing on my tippy toes trying to look into his cubicle. So I didnt know what he was doing or looking at in my passport.Hope that helps explain the events a bit more clearly.
