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Originally Posted by shellymdnv
The amount of time it saves will mainly depend on the airport you are landing at and the number of other flights that are landing at the same time. There are some airports where not having Global entry can cost you up to an hour of wait time. I recently had to go through the visitor line with my underage cousin which added at least a 30 minute wait and even though I probably could have gone through the US citizen line that line was even longer.
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Things have been changing very rapidly Shelly, how many times have you flown into a US airport over the last couple years? The last four airports we have flown into internationally (Dulles, LAX, Houston, and Honolulu) all had Automated Passport Control where they have dozens of kiosks for US citizens to spread out and handle their ingress. There was literally no wait to get to a kiosk where it takes two minutes to scan your passport, answer the Customs questions, have your photo taken, and get the receipt printed out. You then take your receipt to the exit point where they are collected, there can sometimes be a small line here but we're talking max a couple more minutes.
Here is the list of US airports that now use APC machines:
Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL)
Aruba Queen Beatrix International Airport (AUA)
Abu Dhabi International Airport (AUH)
Austin-Bergstrom International Airport (AUS)
Boston Logan International Airport (BOS)
Charlotte Douglas International Airport (CLT)
Chicago Midway International Airport (MDW)
Chicago O’Hare International Airport (ORD)
Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport (DFW)
Denver International Airport (DEN)
Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport (DTW)
Dublin International Airport (DUB)
Edmonton International Airport (YEG)
Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport (FLL)
Halifax Stanfield International Airport (YHZ)
Honolulu International Airport (HNL)
Houston George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH)
Las Vegas McCarran International Airport (LAS)
Los Angeles International Airport (LAX)
Miami International Airport (MIA)
Mineta San Jose International Airport (SJC)
Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport (MSP)
Montréal - Pierre Elliott Trudeau International Airport (YUL)
Nassau Lynden Pindling International Airport (NAS)
New York - John F. Kennedy International Airport (JFK)
Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR)
Oakland International Airport (OAK)
Orlando International Airport (MCO)
Philadelphia International Airport (PHL)
Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (PHX)
Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT)
Portland International Airport (PDX)
Raleigh-Durham International Airport (RDU)
Reno International Airport (RNO)
Salt Lake City International Airport (SLC)
San Diego International Airport (SAN)
San Francisco International Airport (SFO)
Seattle Sea-Tac Airport (SEA)
Tampa International Airport (TPA)
Toronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ)
Vancouver International Airport (YVR)
Washington Dulles International Airport (IAD)
William P. Hobby International Airport (HOU)
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Originally Posted by shellymdnv
In addition, Global Entry also allows you to answer the Customs questions so you can also bypass that line. That being said it seems that some airports are changing how things are done so your experience with having Global Entry can be similar to those without but for the times you are stuck in a long line and are seeing people breeze through the Global Entry lines, you are going to wish you had it.
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Your information is outdated, with APC you answer the customs questions on the kiosk just like with Global Entry.