There's a piece of the US in Vancouver International Airport BC

[IRstuff]

Just got back from aforementioned city and its airport.

Our TSA Precheck notations on our boarding passes led us to the usual TSA precheck security check. Got directed to "US Flights" only to find Global Entry kiosks and C&BP counters, after which there was a sign above the entrance to Terminal E saying, "Welcome to the United States."

Very surreal, but apparently it makes some sort of sense to do in Canada.

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[LittleInch]

Presumably you then landed at domestic gates?

They have the same in Dublin where you go through US immigration clearance there and then land at a domestic terminal. Make better use of the 2 hour before flight that they ask want you to do....

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[JohnRBaker]

Years ago, when I had to fly to Toronto on business, we always cleared US immigration and customs inside the Toronto airport, before catching our flight back to Detroit.

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[waross]

This is to accommodate the airlines.
If you can't clear US customs for any reason, the airlines want to know before you board the plane.
If you flew to a US destination and were then refused entry, the airline would be responsible for removing you from the US.

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[LittleInch]

Hence why they can give some people the third degree when checking in / checking visas, because they also get fined quite heavily - I think about $5,000 per passenger if they get refused on immigration reasons.

Customs I think though are something the airline can't reasonably do.

But is makes life a lot easier when you land.

This from the CBP page.

https://www.cbp.gov/travel/preclearance

Today, CBP has more than 600 officers and agriculture specialists stationed at 15 Preclearance locations in 6 countries: Dublin and Shannon in Ireland; Aruba; Bermuda; Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates; Nassau in the Bahamas; and Calgary, Toronto, Edmonton, Halifax, Montreal, Ottawa, Vancouver, Victoria, and Winnipeg in Canada.

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[IRstuff]

Presumably you then landed at domestic gates?

Yeah, Terminal 6 at LAX. It all makes sense, given the humongous number of flights going to the US from those cities, whereas, the number of international flights landing at certain US cities isn't necessarily comparably large.

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