Originally Posted by
Passmethesickbag
I fully appreciate that formally speaking, this is a Practical Travel Safety and Security issues topic. But I also appreciate you leaving it open, as to me, this is an amazing selling point for AA's DFW hub. I could barely believe it when I cleared US immigration (as an ESTA passenger) simply by answering a few questions on a computer screen, after which I was released into the baggage claim area. Had I had an international connection, my bags would have been checked straight through. I've had the full gamut of experiences with US immigration over the last 27 years, via a pretty considerable number of gateways (JFK, EWR, ORD, IAD, IAH, MIA, TPA, SFO, LAX, DTW, ATL, CVG, DEN, MSP, RDU, CLT, MCO), ranging from horrible to very fast and painless, and this one wins by a country mile. Based on this experience, I would go out of my way to enter the US via DFW (at least until the day when all gateways become as easy to transit.
Also, if you'll forgive a non-US perspective, even though I started this thread, I'd struggle to tell you what the acronym USCBP, which you've decorated it with, stands for.
APC at various airports is also available to US Visa Waiver Program country passport users with a prior history of using ESTA.
US Customs Border Patrol = US CBP or CBP, for short.
I've seen APC kiosks at most of the above listed airports. The one where I most frequently end up but don't see an APC in the processing hall? EWR, which comes as a surprise to some BA-flying customers. If flying AA-coded or BA-coded LHR-EWR, you'll want the customs declaration form hand-filled to hand in, unless you are eligible to use the Global Entry kiosks.
Not sure what the current situation is with APC kiosks at all the US and US CBP PreClearance airports that have them, but for at least a while most APC kiosks weren't applicable to US Visa Waiver Program users. But the objective has been pursued to expand the APC kiosk use to more and more visitors, first realized by application to Canadians too and then to VWP passport users.