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No, that's the way most airports work, but not in the US. Even if you are just transferring, you can easily just walk straight out of the airport. I recently d
by superhuzza 8y ago
No, that's the way most airports work, but not in the US. Even if you are just transferring, you can easily just walk straight out of the airport.
I recently did a transfer in the US, took me 2.5 hours to go through customs. I booked before the govt shutdown, so I hadn't anticipated the delay. Not fun.
- cavisne 8y agoCbp (international arrivals) is not affected by the shutdown (even if they blamed it on that) 2.5 hours for US customs sounds about right sadly
- pimlottc 8y agoCBP is definitely affected by the shutdown. It’s just that most of them are still required to work anyway, despite not currently being paid. https://www.google.com/amp/amp.timeinc.net/fortune/2018/12/22/government-shutdown-border-patrol-homeland-security-unpaid-workers https://www.google.com/amp/amp.timeinc.net/fortune/2018/12/2...
- magduf 8y agoThey are, but that can only go on for so long. TSA employees aren't exactly highly paid, so they can probably only hold out for a little while before finding other work. I'm very interested to see what travel in/through US airports will look like in another week or month with this shutdown.
- sgjohnson 8y ago2.5 hours? I was on holidays to the US 12 days ago. Clearing customs & immigration in Miami International took less than 15 minutes.
- superhuzza 8y agoYes, the line for foreign passports was 2.5 hours at Washington Dulles. 2 CBP agents for a few hundred people.
- rfinney 8y agoLast time I was there, US passports lane was slow, foreign was very fast.
- pintxo 8y agoImmigration is - probably everywhere not only the US - a sort of lottery. Depending on your time of arrival (3 other flights coming in at the same time?), your passport (biometric? citizen?) and your travel class (first get's off first, and will either have their own lines or simply outrun you to immigration due to their headstart). And then there are also prioritized programs (global entry etc) you could sign up for prior.
- sgjohnson 8y agoForeign biometric passport. Travelling on ESTA. No Global Entry, Economy ticket, so getting off with the rest of the cattle. But yes, I have never, ever in my life seen a immigration queue that long, and I’ve taken some 50-60 flights in my lifetime.
- aardvark179 8y agoIt can vary hugely with airport and time of day. I've had to wait over 3 hours once in Chicago to get through immigration.