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CBP has a pretty handy app to lookup wait times at US airports at https://awt.cbp.gov/ . Looking at the wait times for JFK for the past week, the maximum wait time for non-US citizens exceeded 120 minutes often.

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Even US Citizens don't really get by much faster. I'm often corralled into the USC line because of some weird green card expiration issue and it's certainly not any faster.

Get global entry.

I'll second this.

I don't like the idea of a play-to-play line, but in a practical sense I travel too much to not make use of this.

Precisely. I am looking for other countries to adopt this for us-bound flights. Some airports have preclearence, for example. Would be great if i could use global entry in istanbul. I literally had to go through 5 security checkpoints just to get on flight.

I am going home goddammit, i wont do any harm.

JFK is the busiest airport I think by volume... so not surprised.

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