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[Mr Enternational]

My Puerto Rican platoon sergeant in the army, whenever he came home, his wife made him pull out his penis, and she would sniff it, to smell if it had a women's pussy smell on it. True!

When I was married I used to bathe in my car's exhaust before I went home.

Coming back from Cali, Colombia, I once had my stomach x-rayed upon leaving, I must look or act like a drug mule. True!

In the Medellin airport I was taken in a back room to do the same thing.

[HumbleHal]

Terminal C (where almost all international flights arrive) at the Orlando airport is the poorest design of almost any airport I've traveled through. It's approximately a one half mile walk from an arriving gate to baggage claim, almost all an uphill grade. There are no elevators or moving walkways. It was about 45 minutes from the time the plane was parked at the gate until bags started arriving at baggage claim. The irony is, that is a new terminal. It's only been open for about a year.

The mayor there, "Flubby Tire" Dyer is on the airport committee and responsible for this terminal / concourse see. They want to see if you can walk the long distance without collapsing from drugs, prescription overdose, etc. Sometimes they have dogs along the way to sniff your baggage or your undies and smell if you have been a bad boy while out of the country. My Puerto Rican platoon sergeant in the army, whenever he came home, his wife made him pull out his penis, and she would sniff it, to smell if it had a women's pussy smell on it. True!

Coming back from Cali, Colombia, I once had my stomach x-rayed upon leaving, I must look or act like a drug mule. True!

You are in a sensitive zone, while in an airport. One complaint from you and you will be quickly suspected, snatched and transported to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador. True! Even if you are there falsely you may not be able to return.

[Fun Luvr]

It appears Davivienda ATMs change the exchange rate at maybe 5 pm. Yesterday, I withdrew from the ATM at 5:17 pm and the exchange rate was 4387.94. That was strange because the Visa rate was 4374.53. Today I withdrew at 1:41 pm and the rate was the same as yesterday, 4387.94. Today's Visa rate is 4387.98. I'm guessing they change at 5 pm, but it may be some time before that.

[IamLookin]

I can only tell you that Spirit and United require it coming out of Newark. If the readers don't want to take the 20 seconds to fill out the form, it is up to them. They can always tell the airline check-in that Mr. Enternational said it wasn't required.

The problem was never with filling it out. The problem was it never working. And if this many people had problems with something that was supposed to be mandatory then there is no excuse. The reliability of the site is probably why they stopped making it mandatory. I go to Colombia often and more times than not I had to screenshot where it went wrong so I could show it was not me not filling it out, but the site that was on the fritz.

[Mr Enternational]

I travel to Medellin just about every 2 months for the past 6 years (except during the pandemic). There have been some outages but not to the extend some make it sound.

It takes me 20 seconds to fill it out once I have my flight info and passport at hand. I never had a situation where I could not access it before my flight.

A child can fill it out, it is that simple.

The problem was never with filling it out. The problem was it never working. And if this many people had problems with something that was supposed to be mandatory then there is no excuse. The reliability of the site is probably why they stopped making it mandatory. I go to Colombia often and more times than not I had to screenshot where it went wrong so I could show it was not me not filling it out, but the site that was on the fritz.

[Kazeu]

I travel to Medellin just about every 2 months for the past 6 years (except during the pandemic). There have been some outages but not to the extend some make it sound.

It takes me 20 seconds to fill it out once I have my flight info and passport at hand. I never had a situation where I could not access it before my flight.

Spirit and United will check and not let you board at least out of Newark, They asked me for it late January.

A child can fill it out, it is that simple.

Your experience is much different than mine. Good for you. Bad for me. I'm just happy that they don't ask anymore.

I take spirit all the time and they haven't asked me for a few years now. I fly them about 3 times a year to Bogota. Anpther data point. Take it for what you will.

[IamLookin]

I travel to Medellin just about every 2 months for the past 6 years (except during the pandemic). There have been some outages but not to the extend some make it sound.

It takes me 20 seconds to fill it out once I have my flight info and passport at hand. I never had a situation where I could not access it before my flight.

Spirit and United will check and not let you board at least out of Newark, They asked me for it late January.

A child can fill it out, it is that simple.

If the website worked consistently it wouldn't be such a big deal. About 30 percent of the time the website doesn't work. Colombian websites in general are just shit.

[Kazeu]

Spirit and United airlines will ask for it if you are flying out of Newark for sure. It takes less than 30 seconds to fill it out. What is the big deal?

If the website worked consistently it wouldn't be such a big deal. About 30 percent of the time the website doesn't work. Colombian websites in general are just shit.

[IamLookin]

Spirit and United airlines will ask for it if you are flying out of Newark for sure. It takes less than 30 seconds to fill it out. What is the big deal?

Man for the past year I have been saying on here that I have not filled that checkmig out.

[Mr Enternational]

On the way.

Thursday, no one ask for the Check-mig going or coming.

Man for the past year I have been saying on here that I have not filled that checkmig out.

[Fun Luvr]

Just got back, JFK to CTG round trip.

On the way back it took about an hour to get through the line. BioMIG and people failure to follow instructions!

They had 2 agents working the booth and I believe 4 agents working the bioMIG. I don't understand why people could not understand, scan the passport, wait, punch in the flight number, wait, move your face close enough so the camera can take a picture of your eyes (not your face, just the eyes), wait, then proceed when the gate opens.

When I went through BioMIG in MDE, I tried getting close enough so only my eyes were inside the outlines on the camera. I was too close. An agent assisted me and told me to move further back from the camera. That worked, but I moved away after the first snap of the camera. That was not good. I had to go through the complete procedure again, and stayed in front of the camera until it turned green. The camera snapped two or three times.

[Nypher]

Just got back, JFK to CTG round trip.

There for no email about checkMIG, no one asked at bag drop or at the gate.

On arrival getting through immigration was a nightmare, 3 hours standing in the line. Apparently 2 planes landed in front of mine then 2 more behind mine. At first there were 5 agents working then down to 4. The line was so long it wrapped around all the way where they usually have the Cartagena ATV tour billboard sized AD back down to the bathroom, outside the airport and down the walkway. Once we cleared immigration mostly everyone was pissed, there was no Don Julio in Duty Free. Everyone was looking for it.

On the way back it took about an hour to get through the line. BioMIG and people failure to follow instructions!

They had 2 agents working the booth and I believe 4 agents working the bioMIG. I don't understand why people could not understand, scan the passport, wait, punch in the flight number, wait, move your face close enough so the camera can take a picture of your eyes (not your face, just the eyes), wait, then proceed when the gate opens. This shit was taking 10 minutes a person because they couldn't understand the picture of the eyes part. And what kills me is that they were on the line watching people do it making mistakes and they get up to the machines and repeat the same mistakes.

There was an email about contact tracing but I just ignored it.

[Elvis 2008]

Thursday, no one ask for the Check-mig going or coming. I sat next to an American woman back from Bogota and and she said last flight a month ago, entering FLL the entire plane was funneled into a room and every single person was subjected to secondary search. This trip. Nothing! Normal 3 questions and welcome back. I have around 30 plus Colombia stamps in my passport and it never seems to cause me any static. Just goes to show you, they already know everything about you before you arrive.

That is good to know.

I arrived in Orlando from Medellin (through Panama) Sunday evening. Everything was as it was in previous trips at immigration, a few questions about the purpose of travel and what I was bringing back. Terminal C (where almost all international flights arrive) at the Orlando airport is the poorest design of almost any airport I've traveled through. It's approximately a one half mile walk from an arriving gate to baggage claim, almost all an uphill grade. There are no elevators or moving walkways. It was about 45 minutes from the time the plane was parked at the gate until bags started arriving at baggage claim. The irony is, that is a new terminal. It's only been open for about a year.

I have never had that long of a walk, but I have never flown Copa to Orlando. I am gold on spirit and prefer Orlando to Lauderdale. The Lauderdale terminal that Spirit is in does not have that much in the way of amenities. Also, Lauderdale has at times been so overwhelmed with people that passengers have been forced to sit on the plane until the lines shrink. Longest time was 30 minutes, and that was a while ago.

It is not like the agents at Lauderdale are so bad. It is just that Orlando is such a tourist town I think the agents are forced to be a lot more welcoming. They are way more pleasant. The waiting time for bags IMO is about the same. Thing is when you have a layover Orlando has way more shops and restaurants open to all. The problem with the Miami and Lauderdale is some of the best restaurants and shops are in terminals you cannot get to, and Miami is the airport that is so big I had to walk seemingly forever.

LatAM has a nonstop to Cartagena through Atlanta. I may try them next time just to mix things up.

[LatinaLover#1]

Well, it used to be an issue that I could not get a boarding pass on line before a flight because airline needed to see the check MIG. I think the last time I was asked for this by Colombian agents was like 2 years ago. It was like 6 to 9 months ago with the airlines. So if the airlines are willing to give me a boarding pass, I do not worry about the check MIG.

I had not flown back to the USA since Trump got in office until recently. I have Global Entry and it was different. The agent held my passport and told me to get in a long line. I asked another person in the line if he had been through this before, and he too said he had not. No one told us what was going on. You just waited in this line until eventually your name is called. I would guess I was in line for like 45 minutes. My name was called and I was put in a group of 4 and we were asked if we had anything to declare. After that, your carry on and regular suitcase were put through a scanner. Then the agents give you your passport back, and you are on your way.

I am hoping this is just a one time thing where border agents were told to make extra sure people are not illegally entering our country. I hope once you get through this enhanced investigation the old rules apply. The agents were nice and respectful as were all the people in line.

Still, though, until this is known, if you have global entry, I would give yourself an extra hour to factor in when you go through customs. I had five hours between connections so it was no big deal, but if it were two, it would have been cutting it really close.

On the way.

Thursday, no one ask for the Check-mig going or coming. I sat next to an American woman back from Bogota and and she said last flight a month ago, entering FLL the entire plane was funneled into a room and every single person was subjected to secondary search. This trip. Nothing! Normal 3 questions and welcome back. I have around 30 plus Colombia stamps in my passport and it never seems to cause me any static. Just goes to show you, they already know everything about you before you arrive.

[LatinaLover#1]

I arrived in Orlando from Medellin (through Panama) Sunday evening. Everything was as it was in previous trips at immigration, a few questions about the purpose of travel and what I was bringing back. Terminal C (where almost all international flights arrive) at the Orlando airport is the poorest design of almost any airport I've traveled through. It's approximately a one half mile walk from an arriving gate to baggage claim, almost all an uphill grade. There are no elevators or moving walkways. It was about 45 minutes from the time the plane was parked at the gate until bags started arriving at baggage claim. The irony is, that is a new terminal. It's only been open for about a year.

Just got back from Bog thru FLL one of my least airports.