Comments on: Are you Satisfied with Your Immigration Officer? /blog/2008/03/are-you-satisfied-with-your-immigration-officer/ But I fear more for Muninn... Thu, 16 May 2013 14:30:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.2 By: Derek /blog/2008/03/are-you-satisfied-with-your-immigration-officer/comment-page-1/#comment-101916 Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:24:59 +0000 http://muninn.net/blog/2008/03/are-you-satisfied-with-your-immigration-officer.html#comment-101916 My single trip to Taiwan was completely painless in customs, and all my trips to Japan have always been problem free. I even had an interesting conversation with the immigration officer when I went to Tateyama for the summer in 2000:

Officer: (Looking at my passport)I see you were here for two years on a religious visa, is that right?
Me: Yes, I was in Kanagawa, Shizuoka, and Yamanashi prefectures during that time.
Officer: This visa is good for three years, so you can still use it until December if you want, that way you don’t have to worry about the 90-day restriction for not having a visa.
Me: Really? OK, I’ll go ahead and use the religious visa then. Thanks!

And that was that. Very friendly and helpful, not condescending at all.

I wish I could say the same about US customs, but generally, you just adopt a neutral tone and facial expression, and hope they don’t ask you any questions at all.

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