Renato1
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After a nice day in Tijuana (definitely worth a visit), we made our way back to the US border and started waiting at the long queue. After half an hour, we had made some progress. The American girl in front of us with whom we started chatting, said that the queue was progressing well from her previous experience, and that we should be through immigration in another half an hour.
After nearly another half an hour, we had reached rails leading to the US officers checking people's passports through. There were thousands of people behind us, and many hundreds in front of us. One person had already collapsed and been taken away in a wheel chair.
And then the unimaginable happened. All the officers left and disappeared for an hour or so.
They showed up looking refreshed after the hour and started processing the queues, which must have grown to who knows how many thousands by then. They seemed to be working much faster than before they disappeared.
So, two and a half hours after joining the queue, we finally got through and jumped on our trolley train back to San Diego (a really nice place to visit too).
The moral of this story is that if one visits Tijuana via San Diego, make sure that you are at the return queue by 4pm at the latest - because dinner time appears to take priority among the immigration officers..
My wife and I were so sore from standing in the queue for two and a half hours, that it really did spoil what had otherwise been an excellent day.
Regards,
Renato
After nearly another half an hour, we had reached rails leading to the US officers checking people's passports through. There were thousands of people behind us, and many hundreds in front of us. One person had already collapsed and been taken away in a wheel chair.
And then the unimaginable happened. All the officers left and disappeared for an hour or so.
They showed up looking refreshed after the hour and started processing the queues, which must have grown to who knows how many thousands by then. They seemed to be working much faster than before they disappeared.
So, two and a half hours after joining the queue, we finally got through and jumped on our trolley train back to San Diego (a really nice place to visit too).
The moral of this story is that if one visits Tijuana via San Diego, make sure that you are at the return queue by 4pm at the latest - because dinner time appears to take priority among the immigration officers..
My wife and I were so sore from standing in the queue for two and a half hours, that it really did spoil what had otherwise been an excellent day.
Regards,
Renato