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[bucheon bum]

well i think most major airports have an international terminal seperate from domestic terminals. I know this is the case in San francisco and LA, don't know others in the USA though.

What puzzled me is the USA is the only country i know of in the world that doesn't make you go through customs when you LEAVE the country. It seems that with all this post-9/11 security and whatnot, you'd think someone would get a brain and add this to american airports. The way things are now, someone can arrive in the USA and stay there as long as he wants. When he leaves, no one at the airport is going to check to see if his visa expired or anything. The only thing he has to worry about is the heavily understaffed INS noticing him in the tons of paperwork on their desks. Just look at the 9/11 guys, a bunch of them had expired visas.

[OiGirl]

[RR]

Actually, whether you clear customs or not is not relevant to what the supposed plans of these hijackers were/are:

The plan was to board in a country with lax security, traveling through the US, but not stopping. Then, once the plane was refueled in the USA, hijack it and crash it as in 9/11

I doubt this will effect US airlines as much as non US airlines.

Anyhow, a big pain in the butt.... but then who is really to blame? The terrorists, let's stop them so we can stop this kind of c rap...

RR

[Ajarn Miguk]

Leaving the reconfiguration of all U.S. airports aside for the moment, the present plan is designed to do a couple of other things.

The first is to permit the appropriate people abroad to screen and check the credentials of someone (from one of the designated countries) who would like to fly to the U.S. before they ever get on a plane headed to the U.S. The second is to put that person on notice such is going to be done and that he or she is going to be screened and checked from the moment they present their visa application.

Yes, it's not going to be so easy as in the past.

That's not necessarily a bad thing.

[bucheon bum]

so anyone have any recent stories about problems transiting in the US?

I met a Mexican med. student in Egypt who was bitching about it. He was frustrated that he had to go through the USA in order to get back home because the INS gives him a lot of trouble because he's a 20-something Mexican.

[Wangja]

No, never had any problems: but I am sufficientlly privileged to be allowed to visit under the "visa waiver program".

But I do believe that where one country demands a visa from another country, that requirement should be entirely reciprocal.