Originally Posted by
SeeBuyFly
GE question: I haven't read every post, but I didn't realize you had to show your passport sticker along with the printed form at Customs. The Customs guy at ORD was testy with me because I'd put my passport away, he wanted to see the sticker.
Since when do you need a passport at Customs? How did I get the printed form if I don't have GE?
This seems to be an ORD special. There is no reason to have to show the sticker and you don't at other airports I have entered through (though I have also had this drill at ORD). Showing the sticker proves nothing beyond what the receipt does - and in fact you could have registered a new passport and not yet gotten to a place where you could grab a new sticker for the new one. Why ORD is making up their own rules on this is beyond me - but then they are cousins of the TSA so who knows . . .