(Note : Shared from one of my Travel Agent friend. I'm not sure whether it's true or not, however there's no harm in being careful)
Be Careful at the Airports: This is a well organized conspiracy by The
Immigration, Police, Customs and Airline staff with networking in all
International Airports. Be careful whenever you give your passport to
the Immigration/Customs/Airline staff. The passport can be Tampered
easily and can create trouble for you. They have found an easy way of
making money.
This is how it works:
At the time of the passenger's departure, if the passenger is not looking at the officer while he is stamping the
exit, the officer cleverly tears away one of the page from your
passport. When the passenger leaves the immigration counter, the case is
reported on his computer terminal with full details.
Now all over
the country they have got full details of the passenger with Red Flag
flashing on the Passport number entered by the departure immigration
officer. They have made their money by doing above.
On arrival next time, he is interrogated.
Subject to the passenger's period of stay abroad, his income and
standing etc., the price to get rid of the problem is settled by the
Police and Immigration people.
If someone argues, his future is
spoiled because there are always some innocent fellows who thinks that
honesty is the basis of getting justice.
Please advise every
passenger to be careful at the airports. Whenever they hand over the
passport to the counters of Airlines or immigration or the customs, they
must be vigilant, they should be watchful of their passports even if
the officer in front tries to divert their attention.
Also, please
pass this information to all friends, media men and important
politicians. Every month 20-30 cases are happening all over the world to
rob the passenger the minute he lands.
A similar case happened with Aramco's Arifuddin in Pakistan .
He was travelling with his family. They had six passports. They got the visa of America and decided to go
via Jeddah. When they reached the States, the page of the American visa
on his wife's passport was missing. At the time of departure from
Pakistan it was there, the whole family had to return helplessly. On
arrival at Pakistan , they were caught by the police and now it is over 2
months, they are running after the Police, Immigration officers and the
Courts. On going in to details with him, he found out the following:
One cannot imagine, neither can believe, that the Immigration dept can
play such a nasty game to harass the innocent passengers.
All the
airlines passengers must be aware of this conspiracy. Every month 15 to
20 cases are taking place, at each mentioned airport, of holding the
passengers in the crime of tearing away the passport pages. On
interviewing some of them, none of them was aware of what had happened.
They don't know why, when and who tore away the page from the middle of
the passport. One can imagine the sufferings of such people at the hands
of the immigration, police and the court procedures after that. The
number of cases has increased in the last 2-3 years. People who are
arriving at the immigration, they are questioned and their passports are
being held and they have to go in for detailed interrogation.
Obviously, the conspiracy started about 2 to 3 years ago, now the
results are coming. Some of the Airline counter staff too is involved in
this conspiracy.
SO MAKE SURE NOT TO LET THE PASSPORT GO OFF YOUR
SIGHT EVEN FOR A SECOND. EVERYONE WANTS TO GET OVER WITH THE AIRPORT
FORMALITIES AND GO HOME. SO BEING VIGILANT FOR AN EXTRA MINUTE WILL SAVE
YOU A LIFETIME OF MISERY. BEST OF LUCK IN YOUR TRAVELS.
KINDLY SEND
THIS TO AS MANY OF YOUR INTENDING TRAVELERS AND FRIENDS ACROSS THE
WORLD REQUEST THEM TO CHECK THE PASSPORT AT THE CHECKING COUNTERS AND
BEFORE LEAVING THE AIRPORT.
I think the best thing to do is to have a
full photo copy of Passport or have it scanned and save on your flash
drives or laptops.
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