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Apr 26, 2018, 10:56 am

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samyoull

Join Date: Jul 2014

Location: YYZ/SFO/AKL

Programs: NZ*G, back of the bus UA, corner of the MLL AC.

Posts: 373

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Originally Posted by manord

Thanks for the quick reply.

Any speedup for having NZ passport in hand, or was my memory right about the lane being shared with NZ citizens with foreign passport anyway?

Is the queueing mostly at passport control, or mostly at biosecurity, or both?

IIRC if you're an NZ citizen you can use the NZ/AUS lane regardless of what passport you're travelling on - they don't really check anyway and quite often the lanes comingle.

I usually take the NZ/AUS 'something to declare' lane because it's usually way shorter than the green lane, and when you say you have some sweets from the US they wave you straight through.

YMMV, of course.

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