POE Vancouver (YVR) for NZ K-1 with subsequent land border crossing

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18 hours ago, Zeebubs said:

Yes, moving from Wellington, fiance is from Seattle. 

 

The main issue I had with SFO was the immigration line was four hours long as two or three flights had arrived at the same time, and they only had two staff doing the processing.  Getting a new flight was not difficult though, the United desk was very easy to deal with.

 

Air NZ doesn't seem to like to give you too much time to make connections with its all in one bookings, which does not help, usually they average 1.5 hours.  If it wasn't for arranging for wheelchairs on my return journey back from Seattle I would have missed a connection in Auckland too (I ended up coming down with necrotising fasciitis and stayed six weeks longer than intended!). 

Yikes!  No bueno.  Hope you're on the mend by now.  YVR is extremely efficient in processing multiple international flights simultaneously.  Not that we have had a connection to rush to, but I think he has generally emerged in to the arrivals area within 45 minutes of landing.

 

When I was in NZ, we did a road trip down the North Island and stayed in Wellie for a few days.  I love it there!  Very livable city with great craft beer.