Collocation
passport control
The area in an airport, port, or border where officials check your passport and other travel documents before allowing you to enter or leave a country.
Definition
'passport control' is a common English collocation. The area in an airport, port, or border where officials check your passport and other travel documents before allowing you to enter or leave a country.
go through + passport control
“You'll need to go through passport control when you arrive.”
Examples
- We had to go through passport control before boarding our connecting flight.
- It took them an hour to go through passport control last time.
- Have you already gone through passport control?
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- Travelers arriving from outside the Schengen Area must go through passport control.
- She dreaded having to go through passport control again after a long flight.
- How long does it usually take to go through passport control at this airport?
- After landing, our first step was to go through passport control.
- He's probably still going through passport control at this very moment.
- They advised us to allow plenty of time to go through passport control during peak season.
- Many people find it stressful to go through passport control, especially if they are tired.
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