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Finally, the plane landed smoothly at Los Angeles Airport.

Everyone left the plane, took the shuttle bus, and entered the airport.

According to what Xu Qiu learned before, the next process is generally border inspection, baggage claim, and customs inspection, which is quite complicated.

Wei Xingsi led the way in the front, Xu Qiu walked in the middle, Han Jiaying and Wu Feifei followed behind, all holding mobile phones, taking photos around.

On the plane before, Xu Qiu saw that the two of them took a lot of photos. Maybe girls generally like to take pictures and check in to post on Moments. Well.

Xu Qiu looked around and found that if it weren't for the various signs in English and the relatively high proportion of black and white people in the crowd, if you just look at the interior decoration of the airport, Los Angeles Airport and Shanghai Metropolitan Airport would actually be the same. Not much difference.

In terms of infrastructure construction, first-tier cities in China have actually caught up with the beautiful country, which can be regarded as the effect of the policy of "let some people get rich first".

The four of them followed the flow of people and the signs on the wall to the border inspection station.

This is mainly for the immigration officers to verify the people who come to the beautiful country, to confirm the true identity of the people entering the country, and the real purpose of their entry.

Only when the immigration officer registers the date of entry on the I-94 card and stamps the approval stamp on the passport and the alien leaves the checkpoint does he really enter the beautiful country.

There are two channels at the border inspection station:

One is the fast-pass channel with the nationality of the beautiful country or the green card of the beautiful country. There are relatively few people and there is not much need to queue;

There is also a channel for non-beautiful nationalities and non-green card holders. There are more people and you need to wait in a long line.

This is not discrimination. Most countries have preferential treatment for their own citizens.

However, there are exceptions.

It is said that the port of entry in the coffee country once set up two kinds of passages, one is a special passage for beautiful Chinese people, and the other is a passage for other countries and their own people.

The coffee country is set up like this, not to lick the beautiful Chinese people, but to disgust the beautiful Chinese people.

Beautiful Chinese people will be checked repeatedly when they enter the coffee country.

It is said that it was because the border crossing procedures for the people from the coffee country before entering the beautiful country were too troublesome, so they chose to "tit for a tooth".

Wei Xingsi held a beautiful country green card, so he took the fast lane, agreed with Xu Qiu and the three to meet at the luggage carousel, and then parted ways.

While queuing up with Wu Feifei and Han Jiaying, Xu Qiu recalled a story he had read on the Internet before. A person named Zhang San shared his experience of entering the beautiful country four times:

The first time was arriving in Los Angeles by plane. Zhang San quarreled with immigration officials at the immigration counter and was almost deported directly.

The second time was in Seattle, and this time there was no noise. The immigration officials directly locked Zhang San in a small dark room. One of the three officials was still holding a pistol tightly, and Zhang San was interrogated three times.

For the third time, Zhang San drove into the beautiful country from Mexico. The customs officers refused to let Zhang San enter the country. They even walked out of the work hall and asked Zhang San to get out of the car. He asked Zhang San to open the trunk of the car with a pistol and checked them one by one.

For the fourth time, Zhang San entered the country from Hawaii. This was the only time he was not troubled by entering the country. This may be due to the fact that Hawaii is far away from the mainland of the beautiful country.

Although Xu Qiu speculates that Zhang San's shared experience is likely to have art processing elements in it, but he is not sure whether it is 90% art processing or 10% art processing, so he is still a little nervous.

After queuing for about twenty minutes, it was finally Xu Qiu's turn.

The immigration officer in charge of the reception was a middle-aged white man. When he saw Xu Qiu, he said blankly, "Passport."

Xu Qiu handed over the passport, and the immigration officer looked at the passport while looking at Xu Qiu, and asked, "Where are you from?"

Xu Qiu responded, "Flowers."

The immigration officer looked at the computer screen and typed a few times: "Where is your final destination for this trip?"

Xu Qiu continued to respond: "Phoenix City."

The immigration officer asked again: "What are you going to do in Phoenix?"

"Participate in the MRS spring meeting," Xu Qiu realized that he didn't talk as much as the immigration officials, so he took the initiative to add: "The meeting time is from April 2nd to April 7th, and the time to leave the beautiful country is April 8th."

"OK," the immigration officer fiddled with the computer for a while, and then said friendlyly: "Welcome to the beautiful country, I wish you a good journey."

Xu Qiu politely said thanks: "Thank you."

The immigration officer raised his hand and signaled, "Please press your fingerprints here."

Xu Qiu did as he said, which was somewhat similar to the process he used to apply for the beautiful country visa at that time. Both left and right hands needed to leave fingerprints, and the thumb and the other four fingers were pressed separately.

Pretty Country is very concerned about establishing a fingerprint database. Although China has begun to increase the construction of fingerprint databases, it does not cover many people. For example, some elderly people, or people who do not have much social activities, fingerprint data are basically There is no above.

After the fingerprints were collected, the immigration officer took another photo of Xu Qiu, and then returned Xu Qiu's passport, indicating that he could leave.

As Xu Qiu moved towards the exit, he opened his passport for inspection.

At this time, at the bottom of the EVUS page of the beautiful country visa, an oval seal has been stamped, with a lot of information on it, including:

"ADMITTED" means permission to enter the country;

"LAX" refers to Los Angeles, which is the port of entry;

"April 1st", entry time;

"B2", visa type;

Another time is "September 29". Xu Qiu estimates that it is the latest departure date, which means that the validity period of entry is 6 months.

After the real experience, Xu Qiu felt that the border inspection process was not as scary as Zhang San said online.

Of course, everyone has a different identity background, and the same event happens at different times and places, and the final result will be different.

Therefore, even if what others say is different from what you experience, it does not necessarily mean that what others say has undergone a lot of artistic processing.

After all, Zhang San toughened the immigration officials the first time he entered the country. No matter what the reason was, it was normal for him to be taken care of when he entered the country.

When going out, it's better to be low-key or low-key.

For example, the Qiongdao sea urchin steamed egg incident: "Don't make trouble, or it will be difficult to leave."

Xu Qiu left the border inspection and came to the luggage carousel corresponding to the flight, and soon saw Wei Xingsi, who seemed to have just hung up the phone.

Wei Xingsi took the initiative to say hello, "Is everything going well?"

Xu Qiu said: "Fortunately, the immigration officer asked me a few basic questions, and then let me come here. Han Jiaying and Wu Feifei are still behind."

"Okay," Wei Xingsi nodded: "The luggage came out relatively slowly, just waiting for them."

It seems that the luggage carousel has just been started, and there are not many luggages on it now. There is a slot on the side, and the luggage is continuously conveyed to the conveyor belt, and one piece will come out in about a few seconds.

Xu Qiu did a rough calculation. There are hundreds of passengers on this flight, corresponding to hundreds of pieces of luggage. If we count 300 pieces of luggage and each piece takes 5 seconds, all the luggage must be transferred to the conveyor belt. , which takes 1500 seconds, or 25 minutes.

The actual time may be longer than this, because the average speed of luggage out is slower than 5 seconds per piece, but there is no way but to wait.

Moreover, the most important thing is that there are not many chairs at the luggage carousel at the airport, and most people can only gather around the luggage carousel, hoping to see through it.

Their mood is probably jumping back and forth between "Expectation: Is the next piece of luggage yours?" and "Lost: Hey, this piece of luggage is not yours".

Not long after, Han Jiaying and Wu Feifei also came to the luggage carousel one after another, and gathered with Xu Qiu and Wei Xingsi.

The luck of the four, or in other words, their performance was relatively good, and they all entered the country smoothly, and they were not checked twice by immigration officials, that is, they were interrogated in a small black room like Zhang San.

At this time, Han Jiaying suddenly approached Xu Qiu and said, "Brother, I want WIFI."

"This is in a hurry to post on Moments." Xu Qiu casually complained, took out the portable WIFI from the backpack, turned on the power, and then connected to the network according to the WLAN connection name and password on the back shell of the portable WIFI.

As soon as he connected to the Internet, Xu Qiu received a message from the WeChat group, which was sent by Mo Wenlin and the others, saying: "Give them a shout when we arrive."

Xu Qiu sent a "Zhi" in the group, and he found that the internet speed was quite fast, and there was not much delay.

Then, Wu Feifei and Han Jiaying sent the photos they took on the road.

However, not many people responded, only Mo Wenlin replied with a "wow" emoticon package.

It may be because the current domestic time is April 2, Saturday, after eight o'clock in the morning, so most people may not have gotten up yet.

After getting his network connection fixed, Xu Qiu turned around and said, "Mr. Wei, do you want to use WIFI?"

Wei Xingsi waved his hand: "I don't need it, I have a phone card from Pretty Country."

About half an hour later, Xu Qiu and the others finally got their luggage.

It is not good to have a large number of people in the same party. Everyone must get their luggage before leaving together. Otherwise, if they get separated in a foreign country, the problem will be more serious.

The next stop, customs, is a bit like an airplane security check.

The main thing is to check whether there are any prohibited items such as meat and seeds in the luggage, and whether there are too many banknotes that have not been recorded, etc.

Wei Xingsi, Han Jiaying, and Wu Feifei all went well, and none of them were picked up.

Only Xu Qiu was "luckily" stopped by the customs officers, saying that there were suspicious items in his luggage.

After opening the box for inspection, the customs officer took the eight-treasure porridge inside and asked, "What is this?"

"This is eight-treasure porridge, Balabala...cooked Balabala..." After Xu Qiu explained, the customs officials did not confiscate it and let it go.

Xu Qiu packed his luggage and joined Wei Xingsi and the others outside the customs.

The four of them walked out of the airport without taking a few steps.

Wu Feifei asked in a low voice: "Why didn't I see the duty-free shop? Didn't you say that the duty-free shop at Los Angeles Airport is very big?"

After Wei Xingsi heard it, he explained: "Generally, there are no duty-free shops when you enter the country, only when you leave the country. When we return to China, we can go to Los Angeles Airport earlier. If you want to buy something, you can go shopping. "

After a while, Wei Xingsi's phone rang. After he picked it up, he said a few words, then hung up the phone, and then explained: "I just contacted the taxi company, and taxis here generally need to be booked in advance by phone. Although there is also Uber, which is similar to domestic online car-hailing services, but I generally don’t use it very much.”

Arriving at the place agreed with the driver, after waiting for a few minutes, a beautiful old-fashioned yellow leather taxi, which is often seen in Chinese TV series and games, stopped in front of Xu Qiu and the others.

The driver was a black boy, speaking with an obvious accent: "Is this the car you called?"

After getting Wei Xingsi's affirmative answer, the black brother was very enthusiastic and got out of the car voluntarily, trying to help carry the luggage.

Seeing this, Wei Xingsi waved his hand: "No need, we will do it ourselves."

The black brother seemed a little disappointed. After opening the trunk, he went straight back to the driving position.

The driving position of the beautiful country car is on the left side of the car, which is the same as that in the Huahuajia mainland area. They are all left-hand drive cars and drive on the right side of the road.

In fact, the steering wheel of most countries in the world is placed on the left side, and only a few countries or regions such as Great Britain, Hong Kong City, Macao City, British Colonial Countries, and Neon Country have their steering wheels placed on the right side.

After everyone put away their luggage, Wei Xingsi sat in the passenger seat, and Xu Qiu sat in the back row.

The black brother and Wei Xingsi confirmed the destination and started the train.

On the way, the black brother and Wei Xingsi started talking, and they asked and answered questions.

"Where are you from?"

"Florist."

"Your English is pretty good. This is your first time in Los Angeles?"

"I come here often, I have a beautiful green card."

"Oh... Is this a trip with a child?"

"Children?" Wei Xingsi laughed dryly, "No, they are my students..."

Afterwards, the black brother stopped talking to Wei Xingsi, hummed an unknown song, put one hand on the car window, and held the steering wheel with the other. The speed of the car was quite fast.

Xu Qiu blindly guessed that this little black guy was probably trying to test their familiarity with Los Angeles.

Now it seems that most of them can't kill customers, so they don't bother to chat.

The hotel is not far from the airport, about four and a few miles, which is about seven kilometers.

Xu Qiu checked on the Internet. The starting price of a taxi in Los Angeles is generally about 0.11 mile at 2.85 US dollars, and the subsequent charge is about 2.7 US dollars per mile; if you take a taxi from the airport, the starting price is 15 US dollars, and the tip is extra, usually more than 10%.

A few minutes later, the taxi stopped near the hotel.

Xu Qiu saw that the meter indicated that it was finally fixed at 26.8 US dollars. If you ignore the units behind, this price is similar to that of a taxi in Shanghai, but if you calculate the exchange rate, it will be much more expensive.