Originally Posted by
jhayes_1780
Please don't hold me to this: On its surface, it does sound correct. You are indeed not transiting NRT, it is your destination (granted, with a short stay).
As far as others experience, they may have it in a normal environment... but with all the international COVID restrictions (and some of those seem to change daily), I think you will be hard pressed to find much experience.
Why don't you two meet in HNL? or GUM?
Her flight is already booked to EWR and I got a great deal on a one way ticket and was able to use PointsPlus to upgrade. The idea was really to help her at immigration and with all her bags. Meeting in HNL or GUM would be like EWR, except I do not get to fly, which I am itching to do. I will likely go to EWR and see what happens, but expecting that I will be denied boarding.