USA E-3 and B1/B2 visa processing time on entry
score:4
I have arrived in LAX with an E3 visa, a wife and two children (who all had E3-D visas) before. And it all depends!
If you are lucky, and you get to immigration and there is no queue, then you will need 5-7 minutes to get through your immigration officer.
The thing is, if you're flying Qantas, then they fly A380's into LAX, often early in the morning. Which means there are a lot of people to get through immigration. And if you're unlucky enough to land at the same time as another A380? Well.
For what it's worth, the average time for me to:
- Land at LAX
- Get through immigration
- Get luggage
- Get through Customs
- Re-check baggage
- Get through TSA security
- Re-board my plane
With an E3 visa and dependents is around 2 hours. The worst I had is 3.5 hours, but that was with a long immigration queue and a mixup with the boarding passes for my next leg.
I would say that 2 hours is pushing your luck. I once took QF12, which is SYD > NYC with immigration through LAX and I heard my name being called as I ran down the terminal to get to the second leg of the flight (sorry, I was that guy. But it was't my fault, I got "randomly selected" for having all my shit inspected at TSA).
However, the best transit time I've ever had was 30 minutes. It was almost too good to be true. First off the plane, first through immigration, first through customs, empty TSA queue. I spent more time walking between things at LAX than I spent in queues. However this is exceptionally rare.
More post
- 📝 Is it possible to check a bag for only the second leg of the flight?
- 📝 See-through kimono in the Vatican?
- 📝 Transit visa requirements for Multi-Leg flights through Heathrow
- 📝 Extra baggage (bicycle) rules on multi-operator itinerary
- 📝 Does missing outbound connection flight auto cancel inbound flight?
- 📝 How to visit the floating market without an excursion in Bangkok?
- 📝 Traveling to the UK with a German travel document
- 📝 About Visa Waiver Program and B-1/B-2 visa
- 📝 Do I have to go through immigration for a connection in Canada (Montreal)?
- 📝 Russian citizen travelling US → Iceland → Finland → Russia and back. What visas?
- 📝 Will my operator-dependent phone work in another country's operator if it is the same company?
- 📝 Does a Burmese need a Transit visa for USA?
- 📝 Entry into U.S.A without stamped visa
- 📝 Do dual American and Mexican citizens need passports to travel between the US and Mexico?
- 📝 Can you travel to the US 6 days before your H1B visa expires?
- 📝 Do I have to declare a UK "spent traffic conviction" from 2007 in an Ireland tourist visa application?
- 📝 UK Standard Visa - Monthly Savings
- 📝 Straight razor on a plane to Moscow from abroad
- 📝 XP from non-SkyTeam flights
- 📝 Do I need a visa or pre-arrival registration to go to Macau via Hong Kong?
- 📝 Jordan Visa on arrival for Indian National with Jordan Pass
- 📝 144hr Chinese Exemption - Cruising Tianjin to Shanghai?
- 📝 Does it matter where I was vaccinated to enter Greece?
- 📝 Bread, breakfast bar or canned food are allowed to be brought into australia?
- 📝 Do U.S. RV parks have high-speed internet facilities?
- 📝 Travel companion arriving at different terminal at CDG
- 📝 Travel from Belgium to Romania with French "Récépissé de renouvellement de Titre de Séjour"
- 📝 Can I apply for F-1 visa to the US before I leave the US for vacation back home?
- 📝 Website to plan travel?
- 📝 Airport transit visa for Lisbon
Source: stackoverflow.com
Search Posts
Related post
- 📝 USA E-3 and B1/B2 visa processing time on entry
- 📝 Is a Hong Kong SAR passport holder, with a USA working visa (L-1), and an APEC Business Travel card, eligible to apply for the Global Entry Program?
- 📝 How to get USA Transit Visa From India and What is the current waiting time
- 📝 USA tourist visa first time entry date
- 📝 Processing time for UK standard visa in the USA
- 📝 Can I visit Canada without a Canadian visa if I have both the USA B-1/B-2 and F-1 visa?
- 📝 Can I use my Singapore double entry visa to enter Singapore just before visa expiry date and stay for its duration (30 days)?
- 📝 If I have a multiple entry visa for China, do I need to provide an itinerary for the second and subsequent entries?
- 📝 Going back to the USA on ESTA after K1 visa and marriage
- 📝 How to fill questions 25, 29 and 30 for Multi entry Schengen visa form
- 📝 My passport and visa has been stolen in USA
- 📝 UK visa start date and Flight Depature Time
- 📝 Can I enter the USA with an E-2 visa and a one way flight ticket?
- 📝 Visa for Australia and New Zealand for Indian citizen living in USA
- 📝 Is a Brazilian tourist visa tied to specific entry and exit ports and dates?
- 📝 UK Direct Airside Transit Visa processing time
- 📝 First time entry to Schengen area with student visa
- 📝 Visa and entry to South Korea as a volunteer?
- 📝 I am from South Africa, visiting the UK and would like to apply for a multiple entry Schengen visa to visit Paris. Is that possible?
- 📝 Trips betwen USA and China via Canada. Canadian transit visa needed?
- 📝 Can I get married and then still go visit to the USA on my same tourist visa I had before changing my maiden name and being married?
- 📝 *Urgent* American citizen studying in the UK. Flight leaves tomorrow, visa in processing and no biometrics?
- 📝 Can I go back to USA if I entered at the age of 14 years old but overstaid my visa and left at 19 years old?
- 📝 Minimum Blank pages required in Passport for visiting Turkey, Romania, Spain and Austria on Multiple Entry Schengen Visa
- 📝 How many days does it take to get a tourist visa to Spain and a transit visa to the USA
- 📝 Travel to USA from another country and return to home country on a Business Visa B1
- 📝 Hungary - Schengen Visa processing time from India
- 📝 UK Visit Visa refused second time due to lack of funds and unclear documentation. What are my options?
- 📝 UK transit visa and USA visit visa
- 📝 After a removal and entry refusal, will a UK visa application be considered on merit or automatically refused?