Serves you right!Could you have travelled without your passport. The official did his duty. Good to see India changing and you could not use your crazy American accent or might of dollar to crease his palms. I feel sorry for the Kids that they have such buffoon of parents and are trying to make scapegoat out of an person who did his duty. Hello there could you have tried your luck with Immigration in Boston or passport control in Heathrow. I am an NRI too and I would not dream of being such a langur of a Dad and shift by responsibility on a poor man doing his duty. Hope your son with VISA sees this column.