Travel & transport

Nigeria | The Long Queue for a Passport Application and Collection Waiting for a Biometric Token Before Working Abroad Sri Lanka: A Long Queue for Twenty Jobs in Japan Cebu | Cutting an Overseas Work Certificate Queue from 45 Minutes to 15 At Mariel, Boats and Families Waited for One Another The Accreditation Gate for Two Thousand Journalists The Security Queue Before a Forty-Minute Prison Visit Ghana's Biometric Queue to Keep a SIM Active Montenegro | Waiting at the Counter for a Post-Independence Passport Chad | The Refugee Biometric Queue before Relocation The Overnight List Outside Lesotho’s Passport Office Waiting for Documents When the Ticket System Failed Waiting Days to Apply for a New Identity Card Holding a Place in Saint Lucia’s Passport Line Five Thousand Waiting for Two Minutes at Ellis Island Cars Waiting to Leave the Island: Jersey’s 1978 Ferry Queue An Overnight Line for Slots at the DFA Consular Office Accra: Queuing from 2 a.m. for a Passport Application When a Two-Day Visa Took More Than Two Weeks Thirty Names on the Passport List by 2:30 a.m.Another 150 Pilgrims for an Already Full Ship The Wait After the Ship Arrives Crossing a Border at the Registration Desk The Inspection Line Beyond the Harbor A Single File in the Cold: Kabul’s Reopened Passport Office Queues Without Middlemen: Inside Dhaka’s Passport Office Before the Royal Barges: Bangkok’s Security Queue Three Days in Line: Havana Waits for Fuel The Vaccination Queue Forming at Dawn in Dzaleka An Hour or More at an Iris-Scan ATM Pray, Then Make Room: The Pilgrim Flow at Sehwan Shrine Moving 100,000 Pilgrims Past a Cave Shrine Kathmandu | Splitting a Fifteen-Hour Passport Queue across Six Counters Two Thousand People, Several Queues: Kathmandu’s E-Passport Office When a Return Programme Outgrew the Airport Venezuela | The Passport Queue in a Country People Were Leaving Returning to the Passport Office Until the Document Arrives The Queue Beyond Dakar’s New BRT Station Amizmiz | A Line for Aid After the Earthquake Hong Kong | Sixteen Thousand Before the British Passport Deadline Waiting to Pay Respects to King Bhumibol The Queue for Masks Nearly Circled the Town-Hall Car Park Berlin | Sleeping in the Registration Queue in 2015 When the Queue for a Test Could Become a Place of Infection Waiting Behind the Fence for a Border Transfer Twelve Buses Waiting at the Border Tovarnik | Waiting for Buses without Knowing Their Destination Pristina | The Boarding Queue for a Night Bus out of Kosovo The Summer Return That Filled Albania's ID Offices Early-Morning Document Queues in Post-Soviet Estonia A Line to Check In, Then a Text to Go Inside Canada | Passport Lines Sorted by Imminent Travel The People Waiting for Oxygen Mexico City | Hearses Waiting for Paperwork, Families Waiting for Cremation A City Where Farewells Had to Wait Five Kilometres of Waiting, One Glimpse The Water Truck at a School Shelter The Airport Queue After the Screens Went Blank The Blood Queue That Met Demand in Ninety Minutes The Night Britain's Automated Border Became a Human Queue One Bucket Holds a Place in the Water Queue Morning Queues and Night Shifts for a Zimbabwean Passport The Passport Queue at Beitbridge Amsterdam's Passport Queue Before the Price Rise Waiting for a Passport While the Terminal Stays Broken Rebuilding the ID Queue with Numbers and Screens Romanian Citizenship Applications That Began at the Post Office A New Country Queues for a New Passport A New Country Name, and a Long Line for New Documents Priority in the Passport Queue of a Renamed Country The Immigrant-Visa Interview Line at Embassy Praia Waiting at the Blue Gate for a Passport Lebanon | Parents Who Left the Birth-Registration Queue Liberia’s Birth-Registration Queue Beyond the Plastic Chairs More Than 300 Waiting for Birth Certificates in Kikoneni A 2 a.m. Queue That Still Did Not Secure a Test The Heating-Fuel Queue That Outlasted Winter Several Blocks of Miniatures Waiting for a Blessing A Place in a Queue Measured in Years Seven Hours in the Two-Stage Queue at Lao Cai Havana's Bucket Lines for Tanker Water The Morning After the Wall Opened, a Visa Queue The Day Poles Could Keep Their Passports at Home—and Queued to Do It Johannesburg's Queue for Apartheid Passbooks Pilgrims Waiting for the Ticket Before the Vaccine Waiting at the Registration Desk on Ellis Island Sleeping Bags Outside the Passport Office An Overnight Queue for a Homestead Claim The “Bush” Outside South Africa’s Refugee Office A Queue for the Bateaux-Mouches by Paris City Hall Cars Queue for the Jersey Ferry, 1983 The Drinking-Water Line of the 493rd Port Battalion A Kensington Bus Queue in September 1945 A Water Queue Made of Empty Petrol Cans Seven Hours for Fuel That Still Wasn't Enough Sri Lanka Queues Before the Fuel Runs Out The Border Queue at Checkpoint Charlie Two Days After the Wall Opened Six Hours in a Venezuelan Fuel Queue Sri Lanka | Two Days in a Two-Kilometre Fuel Line Two Days in Line for a Passport The Processing Lines Leading to Evacuation Flights at Kabul Airport The Passport Queue Before Hong Kong's Handover Cape Town's Spring Queues and the 25-Litre Container El Alto's Fuel Lines and Bolivia's Dollar Shortage Nepal | Fuel Lines Measured in Kilometres シカゴ万博観覧車の乗車待ち A Queue Around the Block and a Million D-Marks Gone in Two Hours Chasing Water in Industrial Monterrey Five Days in a Fuel Line in Oil-Rich Venezuela The Passport Queue After Conscription Was Announced A 10 a.m. Water Tanker That Might Arrive at Three Waiting for Water Before Mexico City's Day Zero The Water Truck in La Paz Three Passport Lines for Travellers Leaving Within Three Days The Passport Line Without Numbers A Second Day in Moscow's Passport Queue The Queue for Uganda’s National ID The Jakarta Licence-Renewal Queue That Began at 5 a.m.Queuing Before Dawn for a Service Officially Suspended Seven Hundred People Before Sunrise for Kenya’s E-Passport Travelling Away from a Queue, Only to Find Another When Waiting Becomes a Job The Landing Lines Divided by Language Vehicles Waiting at Virginia’s “Gateway to the South”A Six-Block Wagon Line for Coal in New York Arriving at 4 A.M., Then Spending the Night at the Placement Centre Wheat Trucks Waiting for Days Despite Digital Appointments Indonesia | Sugarcane Trucks Queue for a Roadside Scale Bruges' Procession of 1,700 Storytellers Waiting to Check In on Nauru Brazzaville's Line of Stationary Taxis Orkney | The Twenty Minutes Before the Island Ferry The Yellow Containers That Queue Before Their Owners A Two-Hour Line for a Five-Minute Ferry The Ferry Queue Begins Before the Ramp A Border Wait Split Into General, Ready and SENTRI Lanes Johannesburg's Water-Tanker Queues in a City of Pipes When the License Plate Decides the Fuel Day Before the Grass Courts, the Queue Faroe Islands | Queue Two, after the Booked Vehicles Fifteen People Waiting for a Nine-Seat Jeep When a Full Vehicle Becomes the Timetable The Last Empty Seat Sets the Departure Time Waiting for a Sept-Place in Senegal Bolivia's Minibus Waits Until Full Ten Kilometres Waiting for a Scanner at Kazungula The Shorter Queue When a Clinic Comes to the Community