 Poster: A snowHead
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Hi snowheads,
How long does the immigration/passport control take at DIA these days? Reason I am asking is the last time I was there (in 2005) it took hours, has it improved?
Thanks beforehand.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Season before last it was next to no time and easily the best of the many US gateways I've arrived at. I usually travel at the front of the plane, which probably makes an even bigger difference at an airport with few international flights, because you're not joining the back of the queue from a previous flight. I'm hoping it's the same in January.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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That was my home airport the last 3 years, but don't recall the last time I cleared customs/immigration there. Don't recall anyone complaining about it though, so it probably has improved.
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I've not been to Denver recently, but other trips to the US in the last couple of years (San Francisco, Seattle, Boston) seem to indicate that immigration is actually better these days than it used to be. It's always worth trying to be off the plane ASAP and try and get ahead of the crowd if you can, make sure your forms are filled out correctly (and this is much easier now you don't need to do the green form). In the last few years it has never taken more than about half an hour to get through US immigration.
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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Thank you so much.
My situation was aggravated by the fact that we landed within minutes of a 747 coming home from Cancun. It was rather amusing (at first it was  ) to be standing in the arrivals in the crowd of men in shorts and ladies wearing mini skirts and an odd sombrero... But really, the massive delay was caused by form filling and finger printing.
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I think the ESTA system has helped a lot. You still have to do finger printing though, and if you get stuck behind a 747-load of people then there's going to be a queue. Depending on what the queues look like it is often worth going for the desks closest the area which is for US Nationals only (assuming you are not a US National that is); once they get done with the locals they will pull the aliens in from that queue in to the US-only desks to speed things up.
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Oh thanks for the tip.
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