The wife and I went to CW today to visit immigration for our last time. Our mission?

To extend our tourist visas another 30 days.

Both of us have done this several times recently at CW due to various circumstances and the queue was always short...in and out in under an hour.

So today, I slept in and we arrived at CW around 11:30, expecting to have lunch and a wander, be finished by 1:30-2:00 then off to do some other errands.

We get there and get our queue number and the lady gives us 528 and 529. I'm immediately thinking there's an issue, because I've never seen a queue number that high, ever and I've spent considerable time at CW over that last seven years.

The place was filled to the brim with Chinese, apparently not wanting to go home. I can't imagine why.

Immigration would only let the Chinese extend their tourist visa for 7 days.....that's right, only 7 days. I guess they want the Chinese tourists to fuck off back home.

The final queue count was over 700. As the other sections got finished with their business, they started processing the section "K" customers. The wife and I were done by the ladies of section "M" at just after 6:00pm.

Judging by the way the immigration officials started routing the masses to the other sections, it apparently isn't the first time this has happened.

Hopefully, I'll never need to go there again.