They took me to one side. Apx 5 Western males all same age. One young American. One young taiwanese. My second stop in over 40 years!
Last time l was 18 and UK had won the Falkland back ! It's the long Covid stay that causes it. The man said " why don't you have visa?" He was fine . Pressed a button. But the The "lady" was horrible . One really nice officer was acting like a sort of middle man. She didn't like my answers and tried several times to catch me out in a really lame way. It was like she was reading from a script. The nice officer was cringing . He was obviously having a bad time. A few people like me were asked a few questions all concerning why we stayed so long during Covid and was still using tourist visa. The woman was a bitch but kinda gave up when her stick wasn't working with us. She decided to pick on the girls because it was. The officer was so nice and polite and logical ( perfect English) it was funny. When she was busy he would quickly allow as many as he could in sending us through the express queue on far right .I had to wait and l actually respected this young officer. He was polite and took time to logically and reasonably explain.
Sitting there l thought he did a great job. I didn't see anyone not able to get in ( no idea about American.)