Originally Posted by
cedric
That is incorrect with respect to the post you were replying to. CLT does in fact have a port policy that an I94W must be filled in by Canadians unless they are in direct transit to Canada (eg next flight out). If you are staying overnight in the US, or even travelling to a border city, you are not exempt from filling out the I94W at CLT. Each port of entry appears to have the right to determine their own policies which would also explain the disparity between some airports allowing Canadians to use the US passport holder line and others not.
That makes no sense at all. I'm not saying that you are wrong about CLT requiring that, but such a policy makes no sense at all. The I94W form is for visitors from visa waiver countries (hence the "w"), and Canada is specifically not a visa waiver country.
If they really are enforcing this policy continuously, and not just once by happenstance, I suspect that Charlotte gets few enough Canadians clearing immigration that they have never yet figured out the difference between Canada and a visa waiver country. CLT has few enough international flights relative to its size in the first place, and all the Canadian flights are (I believe) pre-cleared in Canada.
I am unable to find any reference anywhere on the US CBP web site to individual ports being able to decide which countries are in the visa waiver program. Can you maybe help us with a reference to that?