Originally Posted by
MojaveFlyer
I am dubious about the APIS manifest. A few years ago on a trip on LH BOS-FRA-BOS, I had booked in coach via UA web site, and got UA ticket stock (mistake, maybe, but I was in it for the miles), and then activated a paid upgrade on the LH site. It all looked good, except the morning of my flight when I went to OLCI, I couldn't, and it didn't even show my res. I did get on the plane, but no upgrade (and it took a month to get the charge reimbursed from LH, but different story). All seemed good except when I returned to the US, and they asked "Do you have two passports?" Uh oh. I got taken to the "back room" where they deport people, and wasted 45 mins until I finally got some response. "You're a US citizen, why are you here?" I have no idea what really happened, but I'd bet I was somehow double booked in APIS by LH.
The “APIS manifest” can indeed have some inaccurate/wrong or missing passenger passport biodata info on it. And beside that, CBP’s electronic processing of such info has sometimes come with mistakes.
For example, CBP had sometimes thought I had just flown in from countries that I hadn’t been to in years or even ever. This kind of thing was taking place enough that the programming for some kiosks’ software was updated to let passengers help to try to identify their flight for CBP on arrival.
Originally Posted by
Kuchingite
OP -- you can check your most recent I-94 to see if you were actually cleared into the US:
https://i94.cbp.dhs.gov/I94/#/home. If your most recent entry doesn't show up, then you weren't inspected.
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Are US LPRs even supposed to have e-I-94s on file for when entering the US as an LPR?