Immigration delay for Freedom today

[audome78]

We are currently waiting for Customs and immigration. They have put a hold on all disembark ation. The delay is approaching 40 minutes.

 

I am not sure if the self assist folks got off or not, and we are staying on for a b2b, so it doesn't really affect us.

 

But the ship is full of impatient folks.

 

Another reason not to book that early flight out of MCO.

 

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[Mr. Tu]

We were on board but escaped carrying our own bags around 7:30. Did you ever make it through customs and find out the reason for the delay?

 

Hope you had a good cruise and even better b2b

[Kimmy0303]

We were scheduled to disembark at 8:45. It was after 9:00 when we did and then over an hour in line for customs.

[audome78]

The delay was ifor to a lack of immigration agents. There were for ships in port and only 16 agents. It is usually 3 ships and 20+ agents.

[Beardface]

Exact same thing happened on March 6th. At around 9:15 they shut down the disembarkation line due to being overwhelmed in the baggage area. The delay lasted about 20-30 minutes before they began letting passengers off again.

 

2 weeks in a row. Good job, Homeland Security. Can't wait to see how 'efficient' you are when the Oasis comes down later this year. Though, it can't be any worse than the 3 out of 10 immigration gates you were using at Port Everglades when we disembarked in 2014.

[Keith1010]

Sorry to hear about the delay.

 

A reminder that sometimes things don't go as scheduled.

 

That has been our experience at all USA ports.

 

Keith