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Entering at ORD around Labor Day (early September in the USA) on a day when the CBP computer system was down, although the GE network was apparently still working. They were processing lots of new student visa entrants which takes a long time normally, but on that day the lines were about six hours long for foreign passports and maybe two hours for USA without GE. With GE, we were told to just go around the lines, which meant stepping over people as everyone was sitting of laying on the floor in the hallways. I went through instantly and was then able to be on time for a function in downtown Chicago that evening.