Originally Posted by
Casi CK
Guys! Due to the Presidents proclamation, US citizens and diplos are allowed to enter. So I still kindly ask, if someone could describe the process, this may be helpful for others, too.
The airline will hand out CDC questionnaire on board the plane — at some point during the flight or after landing — and then that form is to be filled out on the plane and handed over to a medical screening team person at some point upon getting off the plane. This completed form hand off is to be at/near the jet-bridge or before the immigration hall where possible .... and at EWR it is possible. Then after the initial medical screening, it’s proceed to the regular passport control checking area for the routine CBP entry process. From there, at some airports, some people are referred to another medical screening station sort of in the baggage claim area. Then it’s the post-baggage claim exit process for those cleared.
The long waits in dense arrivals halls due to the enhanced screening have largely been replaced with longer waits to get off the plane due to changes practices to get off the plane after landing. But it’s also slower per person when in the arrivals hall area within view of the passport control processing by CBP.
Diplomatic passport user status won’t help a passenger get off the plane faster — at least not commonly — at US airports of entry. But for those with such passports and able and willing to do so, using the diplomat line or crew line still works .... but it’s slowed down too nowadays.
Originally Posted by
sannmann
You had said “run” in your original post, which suggested that the travel was for leave.
EWR does not have a line for Official Passports but does so for Diplomatic Passports. Official travel (i.e., DoD) is not Diplomatic travel (State).
I read the OP’s post quite clearly to mean that the person has a diplomatic passport from a foreign country and that person is coming to the US on official business for the first time — aka first run — using the diplomatic passport for official business. That is allowed still, and the US isn’t allowed to revoke recognized foreign sovereigns’ passports. And a foreign country is unlikely to revoke their own diplomatic passports unless there is a standing reason to do so ..... something that doesn’t happen just for using a diplomatic passport for official business of the country or intergovernmental organization that issued or solicited the issuing of a diplomatic passport on behalf of a person the entity wants to do official business with such status as indicated with the passport.
Even if the referred to guy is a US diplomat, the process is largely the same with regard to entering the US and the passports — except then it’s more commonly the regular line but otherwise the same process as mentioned in the post above.