What immigration lane do I use as a group?
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Regarding your side question: For the Schengen area, family members of EU/EEA citizens with the appropriate residence permit can use the EU lane. That's because the immigration officials will only check their identity, not the purpose of the visit or whatever.
A "mere" boyfriend/girlfriend won't have those papers.
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My experiences entering the US suggests that a group can use any line as long as at least one member of the group qualifies for that line. These experiences include:
Being told by a CBP officer to take my European girlfriend with me to the US citizens line (15 years ago or so).
Entering the US through the "A and G visas" line when traveling with my wife who has such a visa, even though I am a US citizen. I also did this with her before we were married.
The basic principle seems to be that a group can use any line for which at least one member is qualified, and they don't seem terribly strict about the specific definition of group. I've never used automatic passport control, though, so I don't know how that affects this.
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Probably the official answer is that each adult should use the lane appropriate to her circumstances.
That said, in practicality, in the US and elsewhere, a small group of two or three may stay together and use the fastest line. By a small group, I mean perhaps an adult citizen with his alien parent, someone travelling with a disabled person using a fast lane, or a married couple (where one spouse is not a citizen). I am not talking about friends or colleagues travelling together.
The immigration inspectors are not specialized for any purpose, an immigration inspector in the "Aliens" lane can process a citizen and an inspector in the "Citizens" lane can process a tourist, if they so choose, and they will understand that a family will want stay together.
But this is bounded by common sense. If someone has a complicated visa process that will take some minutes to arrange, then he should probably not be in the citizens' line holding everyone up. If one traveller entering the US has a valid Automatic Passport Control slip and the other needs to be fully processed, then they will be separated.
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