Waiting times at Ukrainian land borders

8/4/2019 2:24:40 PM

After actually crossing the border yesterday, I can now answer myself.

With a posted waiting time of only 3 minutes, we decided to use the border crossing from Vyšné Nemecké to Uzhhorod. There were only about 20 cars in front of us when we arrived at the exit checkpoint at the Slovakian side of the border, but almost no progress. We soon realized that there was a backlog from the later Ukrainian entry checkpoint preventing the Slovaks from dispatching the cars faster.

In total, it took us more than 2.5 hours to pass the border. The Slovak exit control was quite painless, but at the Ukrainian checkpoint, hell and chaos ruled. I have never in my life experienced a less effective border check. 6-7 cars were at last allowed to proceed to the actual control area. There were no information posted anywhere in any other language but Ukrainian, but all the other passengers exited from their cars and started running around. We realized that instead of the border officers going to the cars, we had to go to them. A customs officer wanted to know if we were bringing pistols, cocaine or heroine, then there was one counter for immigration check and a second counter for vehicle clearance where stamps were moved around with heroic tranquility.

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