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Subject: Re: keeping green card status Posted on: Fri, 21 Nov 2003 17:02:48 +0000 (UTC)

How long have the airlines been sending this information? Is this post 9/11 only or
for many years prior?

Joachim Feise wrote in message news:...
> Thorsten wrote:
> >
> > Exactly. Nowadays airlines routinely (always?) scan GCs.
>
> And the airlines are required by law to transmit the data electronically
> to CBP.
>
> > GC are also scanned
> > by CBP officers upon re-entry, of course, and it seems as if the two
> > systems are linked.
>
> Since CBP gets the passenger manifest of every leaving and arriving
> flight, they of course know when you left.
>
> -Joe