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Old Jul 14, 2018 | 11:22 am
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Originally Posted by Often1
The entire purpose of Pre-Clearance is to avoid the necessity of clearance on arrival at a standard FIS.
That is not the entire purpose of CBP preclearance — and it wasn’t the purpose even before CBP was created and staffed Preclearance as such.

There has been more than one purpose involved in the US setting up Preclearance facilities abroad. Some of it was commercially/budget related, some of it security related, some of it to assist countries’ economies/people, and/or a combination of those. The outcome from pursuit for such purposes is a reduction in the necessity of and some problems related to clearance efforts on arrivals at US ports proper.
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