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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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Slow I-94 procedure at land crossings?
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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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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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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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