Help!! API question
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Help!! API question
Hello! First post here! My husband and I are heading off to the US on Wednesday, and need to input advanced passenger information. I'm a USC, so easy enough. DH however is more problematic. We're flying through Dublin and will be going through immigration there, and we're not certain what to put down for his API. Aer Lingus gives the options of USC (nope), Landed PR (not quite landed!) and Non-resident (not any longer?). Any thoughts? And if it's the landed PR, would anyone be able to point out what his PR number would be located on the visa in his passport?
Sorry if I'm coming across as daft, but I've been unable to get an answer out of Aer Lingus and can find NO info on the US immigration or Customs sites.
Sorry if I'm coming across as daft, but I've been unable to get an answer out of Aer Lingus and can find NO info on the US immigration or Customs sites.
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Re: Help!! API question
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Last edited by ian-mstm; Feb 20th 2011 at 6:57 pm.
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Re: Help!! API question
I think the OP's dilemma is that the API is flight-related. By the time he's on the plan he will be an LPR. But if it were me, I would put down non-resident as well, since that will be his status when the US authorities check the flight status.
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Re: Help!! API question
Take a gander of Matter of Patel 20 I&N 368
Take a look at this Wikipedia article -- immigration only in Dublin, no customs unless the new change is in effect.
API is a different animal. This is what Aer Lingus has to say about it. I know that I have had to do this every time I've flown foreign.
Methinks that the process is a daunting version of acronym hell.
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Re: Help!! API question
He won't be an LPR until he gets off the plane, walks out of the US airport and is free from government control.
I'd just put nonresident because he's not an LPR until he hits the streets of the US. The airline will verify and/or correct the information during the boarding process anyway so don't lose too much sleep over it.
I'd just put nonresident because he's not an LPR until he hits the streets of the US. The airline will verify and/or correct the information during the boarding process anyway so don't lose too much sleep over it.
Last edited by crg; Feb 21st 2011 at 2:12 am.
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Re: Help!! API question
Take a look at this Wikipedia article -- immigration only in Dublin, no customs unless the new change is in effect.
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Re: Help!! API question
Review Correa v. Thornburgh to see a barely similar case.
http://openjurist.org/901/f2d/1166/correa-v-thornburgh
One could argue that you'd have to at least get off the plane and away from the gate area without being stopped.