Originally Posted by BigM740 (Post 24586908)

Hello all. I'm looking for some advice from those who carry a Nexus card but are not citizens of the US or Canada. (i'm a Canadian PR holding a US tourist visa)

I just got approved for Nexus and now awaiting my card. I am planning on driving across the border. I know that I-94s are still being issued at land border crossings. Do I still need to park the car and get into that building to have one issued ?

Do Nexus lanes actually have an officer who talks to the visitor, or is it all automated ? Just trying to know what to expect when using a Nexus lane for the first time.

Thanks !

Originally Posted by dustman81 (Post 24587597)

NEXUS lanes are manned on both sides. They do ask questions and can send you to secondary.

Originally Posted by xero9 (Post 24589711)

Just to add to this.. The crossing experience (ie the interaction with the agent) is identical to any crossing you've experienced before. In land mode the only reason to really use it is to minimize the time you spend waiting to get to the booth.

Originally Posted by n3xu5 (Post 24587592)

I got this information from the US agent I met in YUL for my interview. My wife is a Singapore citizen. She was not with me at the interview, so the guy told me to make sure she has a US visa the day of her interview at YUL too. Then he probably remembered that Singapore citizen don't need a visa, so he corrected mentioning ESTA.

I'm a little bit surprised too, it's nowhere mentionned on her approval letter, but you know I have a basic rule in this situation; never argue with the US agents, even on Canadian soil.

The only justification that I can think off is that if the candidate has a visa or is ESTA approved, the work of the agent will be easier, part of the background check is already done.

Originally Posted by xero9 (Post 24589711)

Just to add to this.. The crossing experience (ie the interaction with the agent) is identical to any crossing you've experienced before. In land mode the only reason to really use it is to minimize the time you spend waiting to get to the booth.

Originally Posted by BigM740 (Post 24590022)

Thanks Xero. So if you spend less time getting to the booth, then I'm assuming the interaction between the officer and each visitor must be shorter than that in a regular lane... i mean if 2 Nexus lanes at Niagara Falls are almost always empty during peak hours, then they must have been waving visitors through at a faster rate, no ? either that or most people at that crossing aren't Nexus users...

Originally Posted by crimsona (Post 24590254)

One time I took the regular lane 4-5 cars deep because the Nexus lane at Peace arch was way backed up, 20-30 cars perhaps.

Biggest regret ever. I counted 13 cars that went through the nexus lane (one line feeds 2 booths) before I moved up 1 car.

Originally Posted by PhotoJim (Post 24594787)

I have made limited crossings at dedicated NEXUS lanes at land ports, but in my experience, I seem far more likely to get a "Welcome to the US / Welcome home" without any questions using NEXUS than I am without using it, or when using NEXUS at a non-NEXUS lane (my most frequent US crossing lacks NEXUS lanes entirely). If things are busy it seems far more likely with NEXUS that you'll get few to no questions.

Originally Posted by xero9 (Post 24589711)

Just to add to this.. The crossing experience (ie the interaction with the agent) is identical to any crossing you've experienced before. In land mode the only reason to really use it is to minimize the time you spend waiting to get to the booth.

Originally Posted by bostonoski (Post 24604402)

I'd add my experience with having Nexus... I ONLY got Nexus so that I could use the Nexus lanes at the land crossing I was using (Thousand Islands) regularly. On holiday weekends it would get backed up (both ways) and the long queues of traffic were awful!

Originally Posted by mrgoody (Post 24522079)

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Originally Posted by astroflyer (Post 24106540)

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I wish Canada would have just switched to the GE machines. Fingerprints are much less finicky than iris scanners. The GE machines work on the first try much more often. Very occasionally, they don't seem to read my passport, so I just move onto the next one. I'd say I find the GE machines many times more reliable than Nexus....