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Old Aug 31, 2012 | 11:32 am
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Originally Posted by ftfan
Originally Posted by goalie
Bolding mine: Had my interview at SFO yesterday (8/27) and brought a fellow F/t'er with me who was approved with an interview scheduled for October hoping they would take her as a walk in and using the CBP Officer's words, "we can't do walk-ins as we''re hammered thanks to the Airlines giving it away for free and the best bet is for her to keep checking the calendar to see if an earlier date has opened
Interesting to notice that SFO schedules interviews every 30 minutes between 8AM and 3PM (15 interviews per day), while LAX schedules every 20 minutes between 7AM and 10.20PM (46 interviews!). The SFO team must be staffed a lot less.
There are 3 stations and two are used for GE with the 3rd one for pax traveling with "issues" and when I was there, both GE stations were being used and the time for my interview and the person next to me took 10-15 minutes
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