Once on a flight to Chicago, U.S. customs took the majority of the Canadians out of the line and into little rooms, where we were all detained for half an hour (almost missing our flight), asked a barrage of questions, digitally finger-printed and had our eyes scanned.
At the so-called Green Line dividing Cyprus from Turkish-administered Northern Cyprus, customs officials said they weren't searching people walking across the border unless they had information they were carrying large sums of currency.