passport control

基本解釋

Harris: Thats really interesting, Richard. Tell me something: are bears required to stop at borders? Is there some sort of, I dont know, passport control for bears?
哈裡斯：真是非常有趣，理查德。告訴我：難道熊也會(huì)遵守被人類劃分出的國家邊境線嗎？那是不是有一種……我不知道怎麼說，類似於護(hù)照的東西控制著它們？
The row began on November 3rd when it emerged that passport-control officials had been relaxing entry procedures at Heathrow airport and elsewhere to manage queues.
這場(chǎng)紛擾開始於11月3日，起因是倫敦希斯羅機(jī)場(chǎng)的護(hù)照檢查人員爲(wèi)了維護(hù)排隊(duì)秩序放松了對(duì)入境人員的檢查流程。
The exit-entry control department of the public security organ shall issue the passport within 15 days from the date it receives the application materials;
公安機(jī)關(guān)出入境琯理機(jī)搆應(yīng)儅自收到申請(qǐng)材料之日起十五日內(nèi)簽發(fā)普通護(hù)照；

On a bad day, the queue at passport control stretches almost to the runway.
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He went through passport control, turned around, and flashed his parents a giant grin, his first that morning.
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Arrangements introduced in 2007 permitted certain checks to be skipped when queues at passport control become dangerously long.
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the place at a port, airport, or border where travellers' passports (= official documents proving who someone is and allowing them to travel) are checked