Preamble to Antigua
Outside of the third degree interrogation and near strip search at the V.C Bird Aiport for carrying a Jamaican passport and acting non-chalant about my return dates, I enjoyed Antigua. They gave me only 4 days in the country, the exact number of days on the return ticket. The ticket I couldn’t produce when first asked. So much for Caribbean integration huh? CARICOM? CSME? Free movement?
On exit from the country the Immigration Officer asked why I had entry stamps for the USA but no USA visa in my passport……ahmmmm. Well….ahhmmmm….so I told her I kinda live their legally i. documented alien. I kid you not, after telling her of the horror story of entering the country and that it was feared that I would remain illegally like many of my countrymen, she said ” If you live in USA you wouldn’t want to say here”. I really wanted to say ” so you think!” But I was in an airport and decided to be mindful of my otherwise loose tongue! AMERICAN SUPREMACY REIGNS!!!
I doubt a USA immigration officer would assume that your legal status in Australia, UK or Japan meant you didnt want to live in the USA illegally.
