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Old August 28th, 2012, 07:10 PM posted to rec.travel.usa-canada
Jimmy
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Default Slow I-94 procedure at land crossings?

I recently drove from Canada to the U.S. with someone from a Visa
Waiver Program country. The border agent in the booth said he had to
go into the office to fill out a form.

The form turned out to be a standard I-94W. It took half an hour
until he was done. There was nobody else waiting in front of him, and
nothing complicated about the situation.

Does it always take this long? Is there anything travellers can do to
speed up the process?

If it's a crossing that handles cars and pedestrians, and there's a
sizeable line of cars, how would they take it if a passenger subject
to this requirement got out of the car at the back of the line and
walked into the building? Then we wouldn't have to wait on the car
line and *then* wait for the I-94.

Jimmy
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Old August 30th, 2012, 08:06 PM posted to rec.travel.usa-canada,misc.transport.road
Jimmy
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Default Slow I-94 procedure at land crossings?

(adding m.t.r)

Jimmy wrote:
I recently drove from Canada to the U.S. with someone from a Visa
Waiver Program country. *The border agent in the booth said he had to
go into the office to fill out a form.

The form turned out to be a standard I-94W. *It took half an hour
until he was done. *There was nobody else waiting in front of him, and
nothing complicated about the situation.

Does it always take this long? *Is there anything travellers can do to
speed up the process?

If it's a crossing that handles cars and pedestrians, and there's a
sizeable line of cars, how would they take it if a passenger subject
to this requirement got out of the car at the back of the line and
walked into the building? *Then we wouldn't have to wait on the car
line and *then* wait for the I-94.

Jimmy


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Old August 30th, 2012, 10:51 PM posted to rec.travel.usa-canada
Király[_1_]
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Default Slow I-94 procedure at land crossings?

Jimmy wrote:
If it's a crossing that handles cars and pedestrians, and there's a
sizeable line of cars, how would they take it if a passenger subject
to this requirement got out of the car at the back of the line and
walked into the building?


I don't know about I-94, but once at the I-5 crossing I waited 90
minutes inside the building in the pedestrian lineup, watching cars
outside wait for less than 30.

Pedestrians at land crossings are highly scrutinized. You really don't
want to be waiting in that line if you have a friend's vehicle you could
jump in.

--
K.

Lang may your lum reek.
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Old September 11th, 2012, 08:35 PM posted to rec.travel.usa-canada
Jimmy
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Default Slow I-94 procedure at land crossings?

(Király) wrote:
Jimmy wrote:
If it's a crossing that handles cars and pedestrians, and there's a
sizeable line of cars, how would they take it if a passenger subject
to this requirement got out of the car at the back of the line and
walked into the building?


I don't know about I-94, but once at the I-5 crossing I waited 90
minutes inside the building in the pedestrian lineup, watching cars
outside wait for less than 30.

Pedestrians at land crossings are highly scrutinized. You really don't
want to be waiting in that line if you have a friend's vehicle you could
jump in.


I was talking about the I-94 customs Arrival-Departure Record form,
not Interstate 94.

He had to go inside anyway, after we waited on the car line. (Which
made sense -- it would have been even worse if our car blocked one of
the lanes for the half hour it took to fill out the form.) And there
was no line inside.

Jimmy
 




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