Join Date: Jan 2010
Location: Usually travelling
Programs: BAEC, Aeroplan, SQ, VS, Lifetime Diamond Club Appreciator, Mucci
Posts: 516
Recent data point for JFK T8.
Asked to do my EOA interview at immigration. The CBP officer told me to go to line 1 after baggage claim.
At baggage claim there was a tensabarrier funnel that takes you to the exit through the customs area. The line numbers are written on the ceiling and line 1 (parallel to the funnel to the exit) was tensabarried off. You can see a desk under the line 1 sign (with an officer present in my case). I asked a member of staff to let me in and I was the only person there. The officer took my details and completed the interview process very quickly and efficiently. I received an e-mail confiming the status change (i.e. approval) just under an hour later whilst still in the taxi into Manhattan.
From disembarking the plane to getting into a taxi (including EOA interview) was just over 20 mins.