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Sep 12, 2014, 11:27 pm

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Originally Posted by catocony

I hate going through preclearence. For a simple one-hour flight from Toronto to Dullles, I need to get to YYZ 2.5 hours before a flight - minimum - since you never know how long it will take to get through ICE. I've done it in less than 5 minutes once, but it's taken up to an hour.

I would much rather go through ICE at Dulles where I know that, regardless of how long ICE takes, I'll be home 15 minutes after I leave Customs.

Same here.

And even as an AC-AC international transit passenger at YYZ for say a Europe-Canada-US routing, if I have checked luggage, then I'm frequently worse off with PreClearance than if I just did the whole US CBP process at a US airport instead of at YYZ.

This kind of thing in Europe has the possibility of being an even worse blunder than that which we've witnessed at AUH.

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