Ho chi minh city airport bribe 201811/14/2023 It's one of the worst things we have to go through and one of the reasons we don't go back more often. This was 9-10 years ago, and I also heard my Caucasian friends had no problems getting through. On the way back home, we had to pay the x-ray machine workers to get our things through without being held up. My father in law came back and said something, paid and additional bribe, and the agent then 'found' her missing paperwork under a pile of papers in his work space. My father in law paid a bribe, he though was big enough for the whole family ($20 USD), but I guess wasn't big enough because he couldn't find all of my wife's paperwork and held us up, threatening to send us to the office. My father in law told him I didn't quite understand Vietnamese and didn't hear him tell me, but didn't seem to help at all. At first glance, Saigonor Ho Chi Minh City, to use its official namecan be an assault of megacity chaos, courtesy of13 million peopleand over7 million motorbikes. On our last trip to HCMC, I was yelled at by the immigration agent because I didn't catch that he told me I was supposed to stand behind the white line ( my foot was over the line) and he refused to process my father in law until i got back behind the line. Aug222019 Author & Photographer: Simon Stanley, Travel Know Before You Go Asia How to unravel Vietnam’s southern metropolis. I was born in Saigon but left when I was 2, so my Vietnamese isn't very good. These jobs at immigration are some of the better jobs in the country and are full of nepotism hires, so a lot of the agents feel like they can get away with a lot.
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