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Old Jan 2, 2015 | 10:29 am
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Originally Posted by JDT1955
200 is already in the air, so I hope you did the right thing: nothing. You entered the US (Guam) on 164, and the Kiosk was wrong, but once you're thru, probably better to just keep your head down and plead ignorance.
Yes, that's what I did.

Originally Posted by GUWonder
I'd just not worry about it. I've had this kind of thing hit me dozens of times and there have been no material derogatory results for me and no derogatory info in my files as a result of it. [It has lead to some incorrect info in my records and some questions about my reported travel dates appearing in part to be inaccurate (even as what I reported was accurate); but it has led to nothing that has troubled me in any material way related to GE or anything else.]

Sometimes I've been hit by these things based on some kind of automated identity confusion issue and even the attempt to correct the info on the kiosks doesn't seem to stick. Bringing that up to the CBP at the time of entering a US POE has sometimes resulted in "don't worry about it" and sometimes a manual adjustment with some identity-related validating questions.
Good to know that. That's pretty much what happened with me.

Originally Posted by raehl311
Pretend for a moment that you don't have Global Entry.

You clear immigration in GUM, and customs in HNL.

So on arrival in GUM, your passport is checked.

On arrival in HNL, you turn in the customs form. This is where you provide CPB an arriving flight number, and that flight number would be your flight arriving into HNL.

So, when using Global Entry in GUM, you're doing two steps - automatically verifying your passport for immigration purposes, and electronically filling out your customs form for customs purposes.

As you wouldn't give CPB your ICN-GUM flight number were you not GE, providing your GUM-HNL flight number, as the GE station defaulted to, is almost certainly the right answer.
Thanks. Seems logical.

Originally Posted by GUWonder
I don't do Guam travel, but I do know that the customs duty/tariff due rules for goods flying from outside of the US into Guam and terminating in GUM are different than if flying to the US via Guam from beyond the US and US possessions/territories or if flying to the US merely from Guam.

That the person is flying to HNL rather than merely to Guam means that the potential duties due are different. That the person may acquire things in Guam and brings it to the US 50 that are subject to US duty means that the U.S. CBP actually may need to calculate things differently based on the GUM-HNL flight number than on the ICN-GUM flight number.

Raehl311's way of thinking of what to do/leave makes sense, as it sounds like the CBP auto populated at least from a flight booked by/for the OP. [My situation type shared in my prior post have been more complex and are distinct from what the OP experienced, so ignore that post.]
Yup. Agreed.

Originally Posted by edweird
Last week I flew SIN-NRT and then NRT-ATL. When I got to the GE kiosk in ATL it asked me if I arrived on "<SIN-NRT flight number> NRT-ATL?"

I knew that was incorrect, and answered NO. Took my slip with the big X to the GE line CBP person and told him the flight number was wrong. He found me in the computer on the manifest and said OK. I asked him if it happened in the future, should I say Yes because the city pair was correct, or answer NO because the flight number was wrong.

He told me to answer NO in the future.
Yes, that's what ended up happening.

Thanks all for the responses. I saw these responses after my flights were completed. This is what eventually happened:

Whilst boarding the GUM - HNL flight, there's some CBP inspection that takes place at the gate. The officer looked at my entry and said it was incorrect and said that I should've put the GUM - ICN flight number instead of the GUM - HNL flight number.

I explained why I was confused and what I had put in. I said that the kiosk asked for the "flight entering the US" and I thought GUM - HNL is entering US. He said "GUM is in US, so you should put the flight coming into GUM".

He advised me to enter the incoming flight number the next time I fly.

I think it turned out OK. ^^
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