PIA Advanced Passenger Information form for US flights

Abbas Ali · Post by **Abbas Ali** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 4:51 am

PIA ad in todayÃƒÂ¢Ã¢â€šÂ¬Ã¢â€žÂ¢s (March 23, 2006) newspaper:

AirBlue · Post by **AirBlue** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 6:32 am

good they used the LR in that pic

Nasir · Post by **Nasir** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 2:32 pm

Tried to find the form on the PIA website, but was unsuccessful. Anyone else able to locate the form?

Junaid · Post by **Junaid** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 2:39 pm

Nasir wrote:Tried to find the form on the PIA website, but was unsuccessful. Anyone else able to locate the form?

I also tried to find it on PIA website but no luck.

Abrardh1 · Post by **Abrardh1** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 12:38 pm

Nasir wrote:Tried to find the form on the PIA website, but was unsuccessful. Anyone else able to locate the form?

They may upload the form on or around 1st April 2006

Moin · Post by **Moin** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 3:01 pm

Its just another Embarkation Card type of thing. Is it restricted solely to Pakistan origin/destination flights or other countries as well?

Junaid · Post by **Junaid** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 3:27 pm

It applies to all US bound flights irrespective of the airline. Last November I traveled ORD-LHR-ISB on BA and I had to complete the advance passenger information but I was able to submit it online. This new requirement came into effect in October 2005 but was optional. Now it is mandatory for all US bound flights.

smarties · Post by **smarties** » Fri Mar 24, 2006 3:36 pm

APIs are usually done during check-in, where the the information is fed into the airlines computer system, most passengers are not even aware this happens. All pax going to the US have to have certain information given, and if there is no API on a pax the US won't allow them to land. This applies to all nationalities...even US nationals going back home to america.

BTW i hear that they grill Pakistanis at US immigration. They even give you hell at immigration when leaving Heathrow, and have a paki passport.
Unfortunately, Pakistanis=terrorists

SENIOR · Post by **SENIOR** » Sat Mar 25, 2006 5:17 pm

To download the API-card click on the following link -

www.piac.com.pk/Downloads/API-card.pdf

Go to the PIA website and you can find it at the bottom under option for
'Downloads'.

Max · Post by **Max** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 7:33 pm

I am flying next month and I called the PIA 800 to re-confirm. The service rep told me that before I can re-confirm, I have to provide similar info on the phone as asked in the Form.

malpensa26 · Post by **malpensa26** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 7:39 pm

I got grilled at Amsterdam by Northwest but i am pakistani-american with usa passport. At arrival in detroit they asked me purpose of my visit and for how long ill be staying and with who. then customs went throw all my stuff including laptop. if this is with American passport i wonder how bad its for Pak passports

smarties · Post by **smarties** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 8:15 pm

Damn, they are just paranoid people. You probably did not shave.

BTW how can they ask you how long you are gonna stay if you have an american passport? I mean it could be like your home.

It hear its really bad with pakistani passports, my cousin went last year to America, and they asked why have you got a Thai visa in your passport and what were you doing there? Its just so stupid.

malpensa26 · Post by **malpensa26** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 8:31 pm

my trip was bulgaria to istanbul by bus. then ist-ams-detroit.

they ask me y i took bus to turkey?, what i bought?, where is my hotel reciept?, why i went alone? did i take pics? wht i took pics of? where i go to school? where i work? why im in med school? where is my tuition bill( dumbass i forget i wanted to say?)

where my parents live? of course i was last one at plane. but in rome i made it thru without questions but they where pulling over the elderly white american couples but i was not questioned

so theres some hope

Moin · Post by **Moin** » Thu Mar 30, 2006 9:20 pm

They're idiots, plain and simple. You can't seriously expect them to ask sensible questions can you? Just think for a minute what type of education they must have had, not a very good one. And besides they're paid to do this and they're certainly not doing it out of choice, they told to do it or else.

However there are two sides to every story. I on the other hand have always been treated in a polite manner. I have never been grilled and the questions asked from me were more of a curious tone than an interrogating one. I was very apprehensive the last time I went to the US post 9/11, I went to DC from London last year and my visa was expiring 2 months later so I wanted to make one more trip as I wasn't sure I'd ever get another visa. When I arrived at immigration, I was told I'd have to get myself registered and pointed towards a room where there were several other people waiting. I followed all instructions and completed all the formalities and was addressed as 'sir' and every sentence was started with a 'please' and ended with a 'thank you' or 'you're welcome'. Also when I was leaving and had to record my departure, the immigration officer politely asked me to please take a seat and when she came out after stamping my passport, she wished me a pleasant trip. At no point in time did I sense any hostility or resentment. It was quite a pleasant surprise. Customs merely asked me how long I was staying for and my profession and that was it.

At LHR, when I arrived at immigration the last time, the young girl was again very friendly and polite and after she stamped my passport and handed it back to me I asked her why she went and stamped right on top of my visa and deface the whole thing, to which she laughed and said that they had to do it just once on a visa being used the first time. Upon departure however an asian, either Indian or Pakistani tried to be more gora than gora and looked at my passport and asked me when I arrived in the UK and the stamped date of arrival was right in front of him on my passport. I answered his question and then he kept looking at me, then my picture, then back at me, then he got up and went to another desk and checked the passport from there, probably to see if it was real or fake, as if the idiots at the UK High Commission in ISB or at arrivals immigration might have missed checking if my passport was real or fake. then he asked how long I stayed for. You see he was such an intellectual lightweight, he was incapable of calculating the date I arrived and the date I was standing in front of him in the departures hall. After I told him what he wanted to know, he handed my passport back and I just smirked at him and walked off.

So it varies from person to person and what mood these people are on the day they arrive at work. I've been very fortunate to have pleasant people to deal with and hopefully will continue to do so. Oh and I did get my new US visa as well.

Adnan Anwar · Post by **Adnan Anwar** » Fri Mar 31, 2006 6:35 am

malpensa26 wrote:my trip was bulgaria to istanbul by bus. then ist-ams-detroit.

they ask me y i took bus to turkey?, what i bought?, where is my hotel reciept?, why i went alone? did i take pics? wht i took pics of? where i go to school? where i work? why im in med school? where is my tuition bill( dumbass i forget i wanted to say?) where my parents live? of course i was last one at plane. but in rome i made it thru without questions but they where pulling over the elderly white american couples but i was not questioned so theres some hope

Turks the line of questioning from Israeli's.

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