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DH and I are not American and systematically get asked questions:
1. upon our return to DC, by immigration officials.
2. at transfers/layovers in foreign airports, by border control officials.
3. never in our home country, except as a way to make pleasant conversation at the ticket counter.

I don't recall questions by ticket counter personnel. We have never been asked to prove our children are ours, even when I traveled alone with them. But the US and foreign officials do call the children by their first names to see whether they respond.

My parents, on the other hand, were detained for FOUR hours on their last visit to the States. The children and I waited for them at Dulles and no one was willing to say what was happening until a kind lady took pity on us and told us they were being held for further questioning. The kicker? They actually never got extra questions, but just waited for four hours and got their passports handed back to them without so much as a sorry or goodbye.
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