Can we undergo US Immigration checks at Heathrow?

5/10/2015 4:15:32 PM

No. The UK does not participate in US Pre-Clearance. As such, it is not possible to clear US immigration and customs in any UK airports

If you wish to avail yourself of UK pre-clearance, your nearest option is the Republic of Ireland. Both Dublin and Shannon airports feature US pre-clearance. We’ve a few questions on that here already if you need more information

There’s lots of quite long FlyerTalk discussion on the UK and pre-clearance like this and this and this, which amongst other things points out the problems you’d have with introducing pre-clearance at Heathtrow, given the different terminals used for US-bound flights, and the “lumpy” nature of these departures. Best guess seems to be that it wouldn’t happen for at least 10 years, probably longer.

There’s currently talk of Global Entry being more widely rolled out for UK citizens, now that US citizens amongst others can now sign up for Registered Traveller on arrival into the UK. A mixture of wider availability of Global Entry, coupled with more US airports offering CBP automated passport terminals for the main entry questions should reduce the queues for others, which in turn should reduce how long it’ll take to get through US immigration and customs.

5/10/2015 3:34:43 PM

According to the US Customs and Border Protection there is currently no US Immigration preclearance location in the UK. That doesn’t mean that there won’t be any in the future as:

Beginning in 2015, the United States intends to enter into negotiations in order to expand air preclearance operations to new locations.

Now as far as clearing immigration and customs in Miami within 2 hours it is definitely possible but it depends on whether or not the terminal is busy or not and whether your ticket to Gainesville is on the same ticket as the rest of your trip or not in that case airline should facilitate your trip through immigration and customs in the US to make your flight.

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