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#954047 by Kraken
29 Jan 2020, 20:49
My understanding of how it should work (at MCO)....

Your passport & facial recognition scan are taken on arrival - all being well, admitted into the USA.
On check-in for the return flight, your passport is swiped through the keyboard at check-in.
When you come to board the plane, facial recognition is used & if matched, you are allowed to board the flight & should be marked as having departed the USA.

I've checked my I-94 record online & thankfully all is in order, no overstays. It has to be said the facial recognition on the Global Entry machines is scary - no need to scan a passport & the machine normally finds you within seconds. OK, it knows what the day & time is / your flight number, so that narrows it down a lot, but even so, it's fast.

To Buns & Mrs Buns, I hope your trip at the weekend & passage into the USA goes smoothly.
#954056 by buns
30 Jan 2020, 15:33
Kraken wrote:
To Buns & Mrs Buns, I hope your trip at the weekend & passage into the USA goes smoothly.


Many Thanks

To update the story, Mrs Buns has now had confirmation from Virgin of how this occured in our case.

When leaving BOS on November 19, although our boarding passes were scanned, my passport was scanned twice and hers not at all - hence why she is being shown as an overstayer! Apparently this does happen now and again.

Hopefully, armed with this information, we can go back to the US :-D

buns
#954090 by Silver Fox
02 Feb 2020, 09:07
Good luck buns. Looking at my i94 record, SFO is SFR in it. This stimulates the OCD/pedant in me! Why oh why oh why! :)
#954091 by gumshoe
02 Feb 2020, 12:21
I could be wrong but I think CBP use their own internal codes for ports of entry, which aren’t necessarily the IATA codes we’re used to.
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