Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Usage examples of "passport control".
It was not impossible that MI6 had tricked me into returning to the UK so it was a relief not to be stopped as I checked through passport control using my real passport, none the worse for its eight months in the petrol tank.
The passport control officer at Scheremetyevo was from the KGB’.
At Immigration the passport control officer punched both names into his computer but neither came up as a recent or frequent visitor.
She lifted the phone book from her desk and called the British Consulate in Manhattan, told the operator what it was about, and got the passport control officer as a result.
She didn't know that the passport control office had for generations been the semisecret cover job for field officers of the Secret Intelligence Service.
The big digital clock above the passport control zone flicked over: 13:22.
There were two queues at passport control: one for German and European Community nationals, one for the rest of the world.
Up towards the cheap half of the train, a chattering horde of peasants with bundles and wicker baskets waited for the customs and passport control so that they could clamber aboard and join the swarm inside.
Hot coffee from the meagre little buffet at Pithion (there would be no restaurant car until midday), a painless visit from the Greek customs and passport control, and then the berths were folded away as the train hurried south towards the Gulf of Enez at the head of the Aegean.
It was the visa that prompted the passport control officer at Heathrow to run the passport number through the computer.
When you get there, go straight through passport control into the duty-free area.
He kept half an eye on them as he filled in another immensely long form (the same one he had filled the previous day at the consulate) and penetrated Health and Passport Control, both manned by officials whom he took to be Caja, like the policemen.
The weird and wonderful bits of paperwork sometimes proffered at passport control by people from the Third World were never produced by people from the Communist bloc.
Sikmaa's own antigrav yacht and whisked through into the Forward without having to bother with anything so plebeian as passport control, health, and so forth.