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Old Jan 13, 2017, 10:37 am
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Originally Posted by vandesa
Arrived in MIA from an international flight on Sat, now it was a day after the FLL shooter incident, so I don't know how that impacted things. But Getting to Global entry was even an issue.

There was some construction that limited access to the entrance to the halls that lead into customs, plus customs was all backed up. We walked for at least 7 mins of solid line, 5 people wide, just to reach the front of the queue to access GE which was open. You had to push past people who were bottle necked in the terminal getting into the customs line. As there was no side aisle for GE folks to walk through.

Crazy just to get to that point, then waited for over an hour to get my bags out in baggage claim. Lucky my flight was 20 mins late, as I was going to TSA really slow precheck, at the time was flight was suppose to depart.

So if they are saying 1:35 mins as minimum time for international to domestic, I would say ONLY if you have carry on only, and only if NO backup in customs OR you have GE.

I asked the people near the front of the line and they said they were 3 hrs in the customs line.
As others have noted, this is highly dependent on time. I did a I-D very early the morning of the 11th. We had to wait a bit to exit the plane until CBP opened at 0400. About 10 of us made it onto the first skytrain; I was maybe 3rd to the GE kiosks, so even with a couple out of service I was through that and the single GE/APC agent barely breaking stride. Priority bag had been taken off the belt before I got there; no backup at Customs or bag re-check. Pre closed, but no delay or hassles re-clearing security. Got to the D30 AC just before they opened at 0430.
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