I've got a pet peeve about arriving in Amman & going through the Visa process. You can either purchase your visa for 40JD at arrival, which is available to some country’s passport holders, NOT all countries, please check online to see if your countries are valid to purchase the visa on arrival. I buy a Jordan Pass. There is a fee waiver of 40JD if you stay 4 days & 3 nights. Read the PDS. When you get to the arrivals, a lot of planes arrive at once, and there are hundreds of people queuing for visas. You just stand in a cue for about 45 mins - 1hr.
Tourist season is very busy. Not many English speaking, a lot of visitors to Jordan come from all over the world, a very diverse tourist destination. Most people travel in parties, travelling in groups of 3, 4 & above. There are organized coach tours that have a person receiving them at the air bridge, guided through, and fast-tracked.
What I found was some very interesting observations, which are clearly cultural, from all these people's different backgrounds.
1. One person at the party would start going into the queue. As they progress the other members of the party that were sitting on some chairs waiting ducked under all the stanchions & ropes to join the other person.
Maybe that is an intelligent thing to do. By the time that you get to the immigration officer, they're servicing 4 people instead of the 1 person that was standing in front of you.
2. There was a group of 3 men. 1 of them had a large carry-on backpack. He would sit at one end & by the time his friends went to the next loop of the ropes, he would sneak under rope move his backpack over. Sit down on the backpack, read till his buddies walked the next loop, then he would move his backpack under the ropes & sit on the backpack & read his book, while everybody else was standing & queuing.
Once again, I can hear you say, that was an intelligent thing to do, that was brilliant
3. Documents in hard copy, (doesn't always have to be), you need evidence of your purchase of your Jordan Pass, electronic or hardcopy. What I noticed was as people were getting closer & closer to the front of the queue people were starting to get out their passports & their hard copies or finding them on their phones, ready to show. Of course, there was a couple who got to the head of the queue & only then started looking for their hard copy or of their Jordan Pass. The guy at the counter is calling. They're just searching through & so eventually they stood to the side & the person behind them went to the next attendant to get their passport & get their visa allocated.
Once again, things blow my mind, that other people say I don't give a rat's ass. If you're in a queue you're about to go through something official & you're not making any effort to have all the documents ready, what are you thinking? What culture do you come from that is a reasonable thing to do?
4. When you are standing in this queue that's going for 45 minutes so every now & then you would hear next please, next please, next please, next week, from the same visa attendant. Calling out, calling out, calling out for the next available person to move to his station. This is now when someone wasn't being vigilant then another period of time 5, 10 mins later. Then you'd hear another attendant calling next please, next please, next, please! You've been standing in a queue for 45mins to an hour, you're at the head of the queue & you're still not paying attention that the attendant has to call out for a few minutes or the person behind you has to give you a poke, for your turn move on!
What kind, once again, is the cultural, national, or personal trait that you have that you get to the front of the queue & you do not stay vigilant about. You've already been standing there for 45mins to an hour. If every person in that queue is delayed 1 min, 2mins 5mins maybe it's people like you that are delaying. Because you’re not being vigilant & aware of your surroundings. You are part of the reason why the whole queue is taking 45mins to an hour.
5. The visa attendants are not overly fast. They don't care whether they service 1 person in an hour or call repeatedly & take their time. He's going to call over Ahmed & he's going to be having a little chitty chat. They weren't smoking at this time, which I thought was a very interesting change. The attendants often are having their own conversations & then you'll just basically interrupt them by having the service of the visa being put into your passport.
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