Originally Posted by
RichardInSF
The secret is to pass as many people as possible between the plane and immigration. Try to get off the plane fast, walk fast (sometimes it's fastest to bypass the moving walkways, sometimes you just ask people blocking you to move). That's the one area where speed makes a difference -- no queues of any length typically for most anything else.
That is indeed the trick. No dawdling. Also, if you have to take the Crazy Train, get on the car closest to the window and get on last. LIFO and you are a train-length closer to the immigration desk.