Puerto Rico Atlanta Airport non-US traveler

score:5

Accepted answer

Yes you do need to clear immigration and customs in Atlanta.

But on the brightside Atlanta's immigration area is fairly large and well manned, so processing time is not too bad. While as a US citizen I go through a different line, I have seen foreign nationals from my flights awaiting their baggage same time as me, so they have obviously made it through the processing line in decent time.

Assuming you are on one ticket, your bags checked through, once you clear customs, you drop your bags at recheck just outside customs and clear security and head to your next gate. Fairly straight forward.

If you are delayed at immigration and miss your connecting flight, then the airline will try to get you on the next available flight.

More post

Search Posts

Related post