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OH travels to the US west coast regularly with work. He even lived there for 6 months. He is Portuguese, and we live in London together. He regularly gets taken to secondary immigration. The normal routine is to make him sit there for circa 45 mins, no questions, watch him, then let him go.
They also regularly ask where Portugal is on the map (some have mentioned that they didn’t know it was a country and others said it is near Brasil), and don’t understand that he lives in London without a visa (having settled status).
I am pretty sure this is all based on race – as every time we travel together, I always take the lead with the passports (I normally travel on my Irish passport) and we never have any problems.
So so so exhausting and sad.
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