Editing Port of entry (section)

==Airport of entry==
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An airport of entry (AOE) is an [[airport]] that provides customs and immigration services for incoming flights. These services allow the airport to serve as an initial port of entry for foreign visitors arriving in a country.

===Terminology===
The word "international" in an airport's name usually means that it is an airport of entry, but many airports of entry do not use it. Airports of entry can range from large urban airports with heavy scheduled passenger service, like [[John F. Kennedy International Airport]], to small rural airports serving [[general aviation]] exclusively. Often, smaller airports of entry are located near an existing port of entry such as a bridge or seaport.

On the other hand, however, some "former" airports of entry chose to leave their name with the word "international" in it, even though they no longer serve international flights. One example is [[Itami Airport|Osaka International Airport]]. Even when it had ended all international services and became a purely domestic airport after the opening of [[Kansai International Airport]] in 1994, it kept its original name of "Osaka International Airport". Many airports in the nearby region have the same situation, like [[Taipei Songshan Airport]]. Songshan retained its official Chinese name, Taipei International Airport, after [[Taoyuan International Airport|Chiang Kai-shek International Airport]] (now [[Taoyuan International Airport|Taiwan Taoyuan International Airport]]) opened. Similar cases of transitions of international airports such as [[Incheon International Airport|Seoul]], [[Narita International Airport|Tokyo]], [[Chubu Centrair International Airport|Nagoya]], [[Shanghai Pudong International Airport|Shanghai]], [[Hong Kong International Airport|Hong Kong]], [[Don Mueang Airport|Bangkok]], [[Imam Khomeini Airport|Tehran]], etc.

For the [[European Union]], flights between countries in the [[Schengen Area]] are considered domestic regarding passport and immigration check. Several international airports have only intra-Schengen flights. Several of these have occasional charter flights to foreign countries.

=== Stateless persons ===
Some cases of [[statelessness]] have occurred in airports of entry forcing people to [[List of people who have lived at airports|live in the airport for an extended period]]. One of the most famous cases was that of [[Mehran Karimi Nasseri]], an Iranian national who lived in the [[Charles de Gaulle Airport]] in France for approximately eighteen years after being denied entry into France and not having a country of origin to be returned to due to claiming his Iranian nationality had been revoked. Nasseri's experience was loosely adapted by two films, the 1993 film ''[[Lost in Transit|Tombés du ciel]]'' and the 2004 film ''[[The Terminal]]''.<ref name=Berczeller>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2004/sep/06/features.features11 |title=The man who lost his past |date=2004-09-06 |last=Berczeller |first=Paul |access-date=2008-08-01 |newspaper=[[The Guardian]]}}</ref> [[Zahra Kamalfar]], an Iranian national who attempted to travel to Canada via Russia and Germany using forged documents, lived in the [[Sheremetyevo International Airport]] in Russia for eleven months before being granted refugee status by Canada to reunite with her family in Vancouver.<ref>{{Cite news|title=Emotional reunion for Iranian family at Vancouver airport |url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/emotional-reunion-for-iranian-family-at-vancouver-airport-1.637841 |publisher=CBC News |date=2007-03-15 |access-date=2012-05-12}}</ref>