bob--agreed, I cannot understand why they cannot consistently have a line just for those who have pre-filled their forms. Some report they do and some report they don't. Makes no sense. As far as airlines requiring it, or putting up info about it, the problem is that the SXM government does not have a consistent message on this. I think the 'official' word is still that it is not required.
As for the concept of why they went to this system to begin with, my wholly unsupported suspicion is that when we were filling out those paper forms, they never did anything with them, as they didn't have the manpower to put the information into a computer. I believe there was a while there that they stopped handing out the paper forms at all, before this whole electronic thing? Plus, if the system WORKS, it does require less people for immigration.
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