{"id":100216,"date":"2006-04-28T06:37:00","date_gmt":"2006-04-28T06:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/a701e927-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e"},"modified":"2006-04-28T06:37:00","modified_gmt":"2006-04-28T06:37:00","slug":"a701e938-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/a701e938-1dfb-11e4-aedf-250bc8c9958e\/","title":{"rendered":"Airline services on Rota now \u2018more convenient\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Division of Immigration has augmented the airport inspectors on Rota with office staff to provide fast services to passengers and avoid delays for the airlines.<\/p>\n<p>Immigration Director Melvin Grey said that the new arrangement provides for efficient processing while enhancing services rendered to airlines.<\/p>\n<p>Grey said it also accommodates the comfort and convenience of travelers, particularly tourists.<\/p>\n<p>The director explained that Rota airport inspectors board the arriving aircraft and retrieve for processing the passports of passengers who are not deplaning on the island.<\/p>\n<p>He said the Rota airport inspectors are now being augmented by office\u2019s staff who have inspection authority.<\/p>\n<p>Before the operational procedures often allowed for only one inspector to be present to check the planes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis led to unnecessary delays for the airlines while inconveniencing the passengers,\u201d Grey said.<\/p>\n<p>He added this promotes a positive image for the CNMI Immigration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Division of Immigration has augmented the airport inspectors on Rota with office staff to provide fast services to passengers and avoid delays for the airlines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-100216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}