On a bad day, the queue at passport control stretches almost to the runway.
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On the Libyan side, there were "no officials, no passport control, no customs, " Wedeman reported.
One explanation for the reduction in detections suggested by a Heathrow passport control officer was job cuts.
He went through passport control, turned around, and flashed his parents a giant grin, his first that morning.
Arrangements introduced in 2007 permitted certain checks to be skipped when queues at passport control become dangerously long.
The Iris Recognition Immigration System allows registered passengers to enter the U.K. without standing in line at passport control.
Once I managed to get through passport control and the second security check, I found an uncomfortable, crowded waiting area.
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During the summer strike, border agency managers ran passport control but this time they are expected to strike too, our correspondent added.
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He waited for us with Cuban-trained agents in the passport control offices.
In May, for example, Heathrow airport was castigated for long queues at passport control, caused partly by job cuts in the immigration service.
So does Dubai's spanking new airport, from which it took this correspondent just seven minutes to exit, including passport control, luggage pick-up and customs.
Visitors arriving at London's Heathrow Airport can expect to see every desk at passport control manned during the Olympic Games, the home secretary has said.
Face recognition technology is proving to be a handier, more sophisticated tool to pick us out on the street, a crowded room or at passport control.
Suvarnabhumi's international terminal is one long strip with retail outlets distributed throughout, and passengers leaving passport control emerge into the center of a kilometer-long stretch of duty-free shopping.
Meanwhile, passengers arriving at Heathrow just before and just after the Games have been warned of lengthy delays as passport control officials are redeployed to cater for athletes using dedicated passport lanes.
On Sunday morning, the postman came and there was this letter from the British passport control office in Berlin asking my father to send his and my mother's passport to have the visa entered.
Manchester United striker Wayne Rooney had a police escort to see him through passport control after arriving at the airport only 35 minutes before the flight to Italy for the Champions League match against AC Milan.
The longest delays were reportedly seen at passport control on Wednesday, but queues have also been seen over the past month, with some UK and other European Economic Area passengers said to have experienced waits of up to an hour - more than double the 25-minute "service standards" target set by the Home Office.
He was joined by fellow grand slam winners Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic and Rafael Nadal in demanding stricter tests and in March the International Tennis Federation announced it would be introducing a Biological Passport program - a more stringent control against doping.
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JFK, deploy arm's-length iris cameras to replace passport inspection, expedite check-in and control access to restricted areas.
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