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Old Jun 4, 2015 | 8:09 pm
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Originally Posted by Alex71
Good to not see Germany on that list. Seem like a major infringement on a country's sovereignty to allow another country to set up these types of facilities on their territory.
The French let the British do pre-clearance on the French side of the Channel Tunnel...

Originally Posted by Alex71
Assuming that the US would want to maintain a faster lane for US citizens, this would mean that the citizens of the countries where these are set up would be sent to the slower line and discriminated against in their own countries.
At FRA a few years ago, I encountered an entry queue for EU citizens that was longer than the entry queue for non-citizens. My Japanese wife waited for me for a while on the other side of immigration and then commented that "your passport sucks."
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