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Old Jan 16, 2023 | 5:25 pm
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Originally Posted by iplaybass
The MIA website says DFIS has pre-check. I think we're still probably going to exit and head for Checkpoint 1. Why their schedule change algorithm books you on connections they alert other people on, I don't know. Not expecting to make this connection, and expecting to get stiffed on IDG the next day.
We cleared immigration and customs in MIA and connected to a flight to LAX in November; this is what I posted about our experience in the "NEWBIE LOUNGE 2022: Ask AA newbie" thread about our experience, in response to a similar question:
Originally Posted by TWA884
Arriving from Lima, Peru, last month, I was given a yellow card and had PreCheck experience at the TSA connections security checkpoint in MIA, liquids bag and computer left in my carry-on bag, shoes on, walk-though metal detector, no whole-body scanner. It took well under five minutes, perhaps only two or three, to clear security. Overall, from the gate in the high D40's to the D30 Admirals Club, including walking to the immigration and customs facility and using the GE kiosk, took under 15 minutes.
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