Originally Posted by
mjcewl1284
I rarely read through a thread that has more than 10 pages of replies. This was an exception.
One of my Canadian friends told me never to connect through any Canadian city on my way back to the United States from another country and he would never tell me why (His reply: Just trust me. If you don't believe me, give it a shot.). This entire thread finally answers that question.
Could be true but not on the only time that I connected on a trip from Europe to the US via YVR.
At YVR, I was not asked a single question! That never happened to me before. I then went landside for an hour or two then went through U.S. preclearance. There was nobody in front of me, nobody behind me, and only one customs agent. We talked about what I bought in Europe and how not only the packaging of breakfast cereal was different but the Kellogg's cereal was slightly different. After about a minute, off I was. The agent probably thought "some idiot....buying Kellogg's cereal in Europe."