Boarding in Vancouver US customs

We will be on the Solstice vancouver to hawaii , in September.

Do the customs take our finger prints as we are from UK, and have had to renew our 2 year visa, we did this previously , but I heard that they do not roll the security over and we have to go through the process gain, are there two lines, as this took along time when we entered at Miami previously

Immigration may, indeed, make you repeat the same procedures as before.

If you normally do the fingerprint scan entering the US, you'll do it at the pier in Vancouver since you get cleared to enter the US at that point - the same immigration standards apply here as at any other border post (it's been over 10 years since we entered the US using our UK passports, so I'm not up-to-date on whether this is still an 'every time' thing).

I presume you mean you renewed your ESTA (Visa Waiver), as UK citizens do not need Visas - those will remain valid for 2 years for up to 90 days per trip, but they still need to prove that you are you when you enter and the fingerprint scan is more reliable than just matching your passport photo.

One quirk, which you only need to worry about if you plan a long US trip, is that short trips to Canada do not always reset your Visa Waiver clock so you do not get to spend 180 days there by taking a quick Canadian trip. UK gov't guidelines remain the same - check with the CBP officer who processes you how long you have remaining, even if you don't need to use the paper I94 forms any more when flying or cruising.

At the pier, once you get through Security there will be three separate lines for US Immigration: a Trusted Traveler line (for people with Global Entry or NEXUS) that's usually pretty speedy; a US and Canadian citizen line for (usually) most of the folks cruising out of Van which takes up almost all of the available processing lanes - time depends mostly on how many staff CBP actually have working; and an 'expect to wait either next to no time or what feels like a thousand years' line for all other nationalities, the processing time for which is extraordinarily variable as while generally the vast bulk of pax in Vancouver fit into the first two groups, if there's a large number of other nationalities (or they just show up in a bunch, e.g. an international flight lands a bunch of cruisers at YVR who all transfer to the pier about the same time) it's very rare for them to open extra lanes to handle them until after all the 'locals' are finished.