<story><title>International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees</title><url>https://github.com/basecamp/handbook/blob/master/international-travel-guide.md</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jdietrich</author><text>If you have to travel to the US, fly via Shannon Airport in Ireland. A special arrangement with the Irish government allows you to pass through US immigration and customs controls while you&amp;#x27;re still on Irish soil. When you arrive in the US, you&amp;#x27;re treated as a domestic passenger. You don&amp;#x27;t avoid the intrusive interrogations, but they&amp;#x27;re a lot more polite about it because they can&amp;#x27;t detain you. If you&amp;#x27;re refused entry, you can fly home at your own leisure rather than being detained and deported.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.shannonairport.ie&amp;#x2F;gns&amp;#x2F;passengers&amp;#x2F;prepare&amp;#x2F;us-preclearance.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.shannonairport.ie&amp;#x2F;gns&amp;#x2F;passengers&amp;#x2F;prepare&amp;#x2F;us-precl...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>8draco8</author><text>I live in Europe. From my perspective going to US looks like going to some kind totalitarian country. First I have to got visa which is not automatically approved because I&amp;#x27;m Polish not British. Then I have to go trough a lot of, mostly pointless, security checks, checking social accounts, interrogations, scans and manual personal revisions. On any stage of that I can be handcuffed and sent back to Europe for almost no reason. It&amp;#x27;s sad but from where I sits US starts to look like all of those countries they was fighting with &amp;quot;for the freedom&amp;quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>joezydeco</author><text>Here&amp;#x27;s the full list from the CBP website: &amp;quot;Dublin and Shannon in Ireland; Aruba; Freeport and Nassau in The Bahamas; Bermuda; Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates; and Calgary, Toronto, Edmonton, Halifax, Montreal, Ottawa, Vancouver, and Winnipeg in Canada. CBP also staffs a Pre-inspection facility for passenger&amp;#x2F;vehicle ferry traffic to the U.S. in Victoria, Canada&amp;quot;</text></comment>
<story><title>International Travel Guide for Basecamp employees</title><url>https://github.com/basecamp/handbook/blob/master/international-travel-guide.md</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jdietrich</author><text>If you have to travel to the US, fly via Shannon Airport in Ireland. A special arrangement with the Irish government allows you to pass through US immigration and customs controls while you&amp;#x27;re still on Irish soil. When you arrive in the US, you&amp;#x27;re treated as a domestic passenger. You don&amp;#x27;t avoid the intrusive interrogations, but they&amp;#x27;re a lot more polite about it because they can&amp;#x27;t detain you. If you&amp;#x27;re refused entry, you can fly home at your own leisure rather than being detained and deported.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.shannonairport.ie&amp;#x2F;gns&amp;#x2F;passengers&amp;#x2F;prepare&amp;#x2F;us-preclearance.aspx&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.shannonairport.ie&amp;#x2F;gns&amp;#x2F;passengers&amp;#x2F;prepare&amp;#x2F;us-precl...&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>8draco8</author><text>I live in Europe. From my perspective going to US looks like going to some kind totalitarian country. First I have to got visa which is not automatically approved because I&amp;#x27;m Polish not British. Then I have to go trough a lot of, mostly pointless, security checks, checking social accounts, interrogations, scans and manual personal revisions. On any stage of that I can be handcuffed and sent back to Europe for almost no reason. It&amp;#x27;s sad but from where I sits US starts to look like all of those countries they was fighting with &amp;quot;for the freedom&amp;quot;.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mstade</author><text>Arlanda airport in Stockholm is also working on a pre-clearance arrangement like this[1], although it won&amp;#x27;t start until 2019 at the earliest it seems.&lt;p&gt;[1]: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cbp.gov&amp;#x2F;newsroom&amp;#x2F;national-media-release&amp;#x2F;united-states-sweden-sign-agreement-open-preclearance-facility&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.cbp.gov&amp;#x2F;newsroom&amp;#x2F;national-media-release&amp;#x2F;united-s...&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>