Want to meet arriving passenger inside airport before immigration (SIN airport)
Is this possible?
Buy a cheapest ticket or refundable ticket and enter T3 departure hall of Singapore airport, clear immigration and go to T3 arrival area and meet my wife even before she clears thru immigration desk.
Reason: to give her surprise and help her with document handling.
Thanks for your help.
P.s. this question may have been asked in different formats earlier, but i am keen on knowing for Singapore airport. There may be Meet&Greet services, that would be last resort.
Best Answer
As drat's answer explains, it's technically possible, but it's also illegal. There's a sign ahead of Immigration that says "No entry except for passengers with boarding passes and proceeding to their next destination", so if you enter and do not proceed to your flight destination, you're trespassing.
This is not a dead letter either: several fans of a Chinese pop star who did just this were arrested and eventually fined $1,000, and this has even been applied to a Singapore Airlines pilot seeing off his girlfriend.
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Answer 2
As others have said, it's illegal. Visas permitting you can accomplish this, though: Actually fly up to Kuala Lumpur--a quick search turned up a $65 ticket.
Answer 3
As it is obvious from the posts above, that this might end up with you breaking the law.
If you would like to speed up your wife's formalities through the airport - consider applying for the meet and greet services which will provide for her an escort through the terminal and priority clearing of baggage and immigration. For an extra fee they can also deliver a flower bouquet.
However, they will not be able to let you escort her as the ability to transit between secure areas of the terminal is restricted.
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