Agony at Air Customs
A 28 year old foreign woman with little knowledge of English lands up in a foreign airport after 24 hours of flying and is stuck in the Customs lounge. "I was sleepy, I was so hungry and I was cold and I was thirsty and there are no restaurants in customs.", she said."It was a different country, a different language, everything was so different and it was very stressing."
Meanwhile, her uncle was waiting patiently in the international arrivals lounge, worried for hours. The only information he could get about his niece was by a telephone hotline near the immigration office, which was closed that day, a Sunday. He said the operator, whose tone he described as aggressive and unhelpful, told him it typically takes two to four hours to clear customs. "She was very aggressive, really, really unhelpful, not polite, and she gave me misleading information."
He eventually reported his niece missing to a customs office, worrying she had been kidnapped. An officer offered to check the waiting room, where he found the lady still waiting for her turn, a small act of kindness for which the uncle remains grateful. "He was a great guy, a great man, very helpful," he said. "I told him I would never forget him."
Finally, more than seven hours after she arrived, she left with her uncle.
Well, this did not happen in India but was the harrowing experience of an Iranian woman on her arrival in Canada as reported by www.canada.com