Originally Posted by
t325
I've always wondered if the US would reciprocate and allow another country to put a pre-clearance facility in a US airport. You could certainly make an argument for a British or Schengen PC facility at a major US hub like JFK, there's definitely enough traffic for it.
As I've mentioned in other threads on this very topic, the foreign countries won't be able to get this kind facility at existing US airports unless the desired U.S. airport owner/operator is willing to let it happen. Regardless of there being an apparent reciprocity of some sort in the PreClearance-facilitating bilateral agreements, which includes the publicly available bilateral agreements and the non-publicized agreements related to the same.
Originally Posted by
joejones
The French let the British do pre-clearance on the French side of the Channel Tunnel...
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."
You do know that EU citizens can use the "All Passports" and "Non-EU/EEA" lines? In other words you could go through with your wife in the same line as she used that time.
Also, I've seen the non-citizen lines at FRA, ARN, HEL, OSL and many other Schengen or EU airports be very small (to nearly non-existent) and yet the processing was so slow that the huge EU line cleared up in advance of me as a US passport holder.