[Elecraft] Traveling and US Customs

[David Christ]

The setup at O'Hare was a final door from the customs area a short corridor to where you would meet anyone expecting you.  There was a door in the corridor to the customs office area.  I asked and they let me go in that door.  This was not the area where any passenger processing was done.  They may well have remodeled by now.

David K0LUM


On Mar 13, 2014, at 2:24 PM, Phil Kane wrote:



> On 3/13/2014 11:42 AM, David Christ wrote:
> 
>> I forgot to add that there is a customs office anywhere people on flights or in cars get admitted to the US.
> 
> Some are only staffed part-time even though the field is called an
> "International Airport".
> 
>> At O'Hare I just went to where the passengers from foreign flights came out into the terminal.
> 
> Was that outside or inside the TSA - controlled  area?  My recollection
> of airports is that no one gets "inside" the TSA departure area without
> a ticket and no one from outside gets into the TSA/CBP - controlled
> arrival area.
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> 
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