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To all the people that think this number is absurdly high, it isn't. Let's do some paper napkin thinking here: Form: - The forms will have to be redesigned an
by electic 10y ago
To all the people that think this number is absurdly high, it isn't. Let's do some paper napkin thinking here:
Form:
- The forms will have to be redesigned and reprinted. Not cheap. Don't forget, the 94W is in a variety of languages.
- Flight crew will have to be trained to answer this question. For 94W form.
- Agent console will have to be updated.
- Which means agents will have to be trained to handle this data.
- Embassies will have to be trained as well.
Website:
- Updates to the website. Don't forget different languages.
- Help documentation will have to be created for the web.
Other:
- Data will have to be aggregated from social site. Development costs.
- New console will have to be created to look at a user's streams.
- Staff will have to pull and review the data.
- New infrastructure (servers, software, upkeep) will have to be put in place to handle this.
Just thinking for a few minutes, it seems expensive. It is not just a field on a form or website, it is a whole staff, backend, ball of wax.
- vidarh 10y agoBut as the people responding to you have pointed out, the above is not what these cost estimates are referring to. They are referring to the estimated burden in terms of the time spent by the people filling in the forms.
- electic 10y agoThen the costs are even higher.
- abpavel 10y agoWhat "other languages" are you referring to? I've done a lot of US travel forms, and never saw one not in english (with the occasional spanish subs). Also I just browsed the whole 94W site and haven't found a trace of other languages besides single instructions. I think supoort for other languages cannot ever justify significant price in US governmental affairs.
- e28eta 10y agoHow about this? https://www.cbp.gov/document/forms/print-ready-layouts-cbp-forms-i-94-5129-and-6059b https://www.cbp.gov/document/forms/print-ready-layouts-cbp-f... It looks like 18 different languages are provided. I don't travel internationally often (and usually to English speaking countries), but I thought I'd heard that other languages were available on request.