Tuesday, October 28, 2008

My passport's special treatment

Tonight at Gatwick's passport control the officer put my passport through the scanner, looked at the screen, then flipped through the pages and made me a couple of questions that may explain my passport's special treatment in Austria:

"Do you have family in Angola?"
- Yes.
"But were you born in Portugal?"
- Yes.
"Thank you, bye"

They probably scanned my passport because I've been in Angola. They feared I was hired by an Angolan terrorist group (probably don't exist) and that I was going to make use of my Portuguese nationality to get inside their country and bomb them. Or maybe they feared something worse, that I would move in:-D

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