My flight was nearing the "Tbilisi Airport" on 2nd November 2016 around 4:40 pm in the evening, I was little disturbed due to the inquiries I faced at Air Arabia and Immigration Counters in India and now for the first time in my lifetime I have to face a foreign immigration officer!
When I reached "Tbilisi Airport" my lungs started consuming less oxygen due to the pressure of thoughts about immigration inquiries, which started pulling me down!
I noticed there were multiple immigration counters, some officers smiled at the passengers and few are robotic; naturally when I noticed the officer who handled my queue I found her gloomy! I thought to change my queue but soon changed my mind because such changes might be noticed in cameras and handled in a different way!
When I reached the gloomy immigration officer as expected she directed me towards a counter situated at the extreme end of the hall where I had been rounded by two officers and they started launching questions, all but the same question;
1) Who invited you! 2) Who invited you!! 3) Who invited you!!!
I replied that I'm a tourist and nobody has invited me and started triggering the documents that I had in a big folder one after another. After viewing them randomly but carefully, the officers responded; yes your documents are good!
Once the verification of all my documents got completed by multiple immigration officers in Tbilisi Airport I had been redirected to a new immigration counter which was a special counter for official visits!
I informed the smiling 'lady officer' sitting on her rolling chair; Mam I not a special person and my passport is an ordinary passport, is that OK, will you handle me?!
She replied, you are welcome sir and she cleared my immigration very quickly with a great smile on her face, from then I enjoyed similar great smiles throughout my journey in Georgia from each and every Georgian faces!
I came out of the immigration hall and inhaled more oxygen and found my baggage as the last one and the only one, left in the baggage carousel!
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