So my partner flagpoled through Port Angeles yesterday. When we went through Canada Immigration, it was pretty relaxed and easy. There was a funny moment when the officer asked me if I was alright with him landing as a PR.....I laughed and just said that I hoped so otherwise sponsoring him was a complete waste 
, which made the officer laugh. And he let me come into the office with my partner to process everything.
The only annoying moment of the day came courtesy of US immigration. The officer was in her late 50's or early 60's and was tech challenged. She didn't know how to look up ESTAs in the computer and said it was our responsibility to provide my partner's ESTA number....I said we had went through the US at least a dozen times in the past few years and had NEVER been told to provide it ourselves. She called over someone else, who had to show her how to look it up and it still took her ages to do it. Then when she had to print off the paper to stick in his passport, she couldn't figure out how to load the paper into the printer...again, someone else had to come over and show her how to do it. And when she asked where we were staying overnight and we said it was only a flagpole trip, she got pissed off and we could hear her muttering under her breath "all this work just for a day trip" blah blah. The other officers processed a few dozen people in the time it took her to process us. Then when we hit US Customs, the officer took one look at the covers of our Canadian and British passports and our lack of luggage and before we even said anything, guessed that we were flagpoling and just waved us through.
, which made the officer laugh. And he let me come into the office with my partner to process everything.The only annoying moment of the day came courtesy of US immigration. The officer was in her late 50's or early 60's and was tech challenged. She didn't know how to look up ESTAs in the computer and said it was our responsibility to provide my partner's ESTA number....I said we had went through the US at least a dozen times in the past few years and had NEVER been told to provide it ourselves. She called over someone else, who had to show her how to look it up and it still took her ages to do it. Then when she had to print off the paper to stick in his passport, she couldn't figure out how to load the paper into the printer...again, someone else had to come over and show her how to do it. And when she asked where we were staying overnight and we said it was only a flagpole trip, she got pissed off and we could hear her muttering under her breath "all this work just for a day trip" blah blah. The other officers processed a few dozen people in the time it took her to process us. Then when we hit US Customs, the officer took one look at the covers of our Canadian and British passports and our lack of luggage and before we even said anything, guessed that we were flagpoling and just waved us through
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