Despite NEXUS airport enrolment centres reopening in Canada this spring, many applications are still in limbo as American and Canadian authorities work to clear hefty post-pandemic backlogs. This leaves many travellers without NEXUS stuck in regular passport control lines.
However, the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) offers a feature called Advance CBSA Declaration, which allows arriving passengers into Canada to expedite their way through CBSA clearance lines at ports of entry.
It uses the controversial ArriveCAN app, which could’ve become a relic of the pandemic but has since been put into better use. It’s important to note that the use of ArriveCAN is entirely optional these days, but if you choose to use it, it might just speed up your arrival.
What Is Advance CBSA Declaration?
Advance CBSA Declaration is an app-based service that allows you to complete parts of your Canadian border clearance beforehand, thus expediting your entry to the Canada. Passengers of any nationality who are arriving from any international destination may use this service free-of-charge.
By pre-filling your information and answering CBSA inspection-related questions, you’ll get to join an express line and spend less time using one of the arrival kiosks and facing a CBSA officer.
To be clear, Advance CBSA Declaration is not a trusted traveller program like NEXUS, which allows you to be processed separately at Canadian borders. Furthermore, it doesn’t provide any benefit at security lines like Express.
On the other hand, there’s also no long-drawn pre-approval process or cost for this service, as you might experience with NEXUS. You can think of it as being the Canadian counterpart of Mobile Passport Control, which lets you make your customs and immigration declarations beforehand and join an express line upon arriving in the US or when using a pre-clearance facility.
The Advance CBSA Declaration service is already being offered at most of Canada’s international airports, including:
- Vancouver International Airport (YVR)
- Toronto Pearson International Airport (YYZ) (Terminals 1 & 3)
- Montreal-Trudeau International Airport (YUL)
- Winnipeg Richardson International Airport (YWG)
- Halifax Stanfield International Airport (YHZ)
- Québec City Jean Lesage International Airport (YQB)
- Calgary International Airport (YYC)
- Ottawa International Airport (YOW)
- Edmonton International Airport (YEG)
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