How long does it take to get through USA customs

[eal Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close eal]

Chubby,
Your posts are VERY difficult to read. If you would just take a moment to re-read your post using the "preview post" feature, correcting the spelling errors and putting in some periods at the end of your sentences, readers would have a much easier time understanding your concerns and responding with (hopefully) helpful ideas.

Keith was not attacking you personally, just commenting that he gave up reading your first post because it was too hard to follow.

[Art Member Find all posts View Profile Close Art]

Chubby

What ship were you on, and when did you board it?

I'd like to take a look at the reviews of that cruise over on cruisecritic.com. As annoying as US C&I is, what you experienced was unusually bad so it would be interesting to find out what caused this.

1000 non-US/Canadian on a cruise seems like an unusually large number. Were you part of a large group or special charter of the ship?

Art

[rockedge Junior Member Find all posts View Profile Close rockedge]

I have been thru customs in Vancouver and it took over an hour. But I have been thru customs many times before and after elsewhere (lax, iah, miami) and the longest it took was about 20 minutes.

[Beaglemom3 Senior Member Find all posts View Profile Close Beaglemom3]

[QUOTE=chubby;150694]"Sorry Keitht for the no puntuation it seems my content on this forum is not needed or up to the standard of you .I can stop doing my thing if that is what is wanted by everyone and we do speak English you should to come out to Australia and see"
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Chubby,
We all enjoy your postings and your content is needed and enjoyed. It's just that without a pause or break in a running sentence with/without punctuation can make it difficult to get the true meaning of your post.

It's like the popular book that is out in the U.S. re: grammar and punctuation:

Eats shoots and leaves - this would be applicable to a Koala bear for example.
(Without puncuation).

Eats, shoots and leaves - this would change the meaning to a teenage boy or girl who comes home, plays some basketball and is off again.

So, no offense intended by anyone. You are among friends here.
B.

[camachinist Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close camachinist]

Sorry to hear US Customs was such a PITA. It can be that way for us sometimes too, even as U.S. citizens. By and large I've found other countries officials to be more friendly and expedient, with the possible exception of some in the FSU (former soviet union).

Functioning as moderator, let's try to stay on the topic of USA customs.

Pat

[katiemack Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close katiemack]

It is truly outrageous that you were treated that way or that any person would be told what you witnessed with the diabetic's experience.

It seems a shame that travel has become so de-humanizing. From customs delays to being locked in an airplane on the tarmac for hours and hours.

It is hard to enjoy the prospect of travel when one hears of these types of horror stories.

And yes, I second Beags statement that we value your posts and want to know EXACTLY the types of news that you are sharing here. You are among friends, and please overlook any other posts that may seem to imply that you are not. Sometimes the written word just doesn't convey the proper feeling.

[chubby Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close chubby]

This ship was the Zuiderdam of the New Holland America line.
It sailed out of Vancouver on May 12.

[Keitht Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close Keitht]

Certainly it was never my intention to offend, but I stand by my assertion that the original post was difficult to understand.

[Art Member Find all posts View Profile Close Art]

Thanks, Chubby

I'll check it out.

Art

[JWC Super Moderator Find all posts View Profile Close JWC]

When my wife and I traveled to Alberta, Canada in August 2005, we had no problems with either the Canadian Customs and Immigrations nor the US on our return. My wife was not a US citizen at the time. There was virtually no wait in either direction. We entered and left Canada at the Calgary airport.

We have also not experienced any problems returning from Mexico which we do quite often.

We are traveling to Vancouver Canada this August so it will interesting to see what our experience will be at the Vancouver airport. We are entering at Vancouver but returning from Victoria to Seattle. My wife now has her US citizenship so she has dual citizenship ( US/Mexican ).

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Chubby

No luck. I couldn't find anything over on Cruisecritic about what the problem was with your cruise. HAL cruisers tend to not post very much, but that cruise had the least I have seen, good, bad or different, about a cruise. It does lead me to believe that there must have been a lot of non-North Americans on your cruise.

Art