Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) announced on Monday its Advance Declaration feature within the ArriveCAN app has expanded to another major Canadian international airport.
Incoming travellers from international flights at Québec City’s Jean-Lesage International Airport can now use the Advance Declaration feature inside the ArriveCAN app, joining Toronto Pearson, Montreal-Trudeau, Winnipeg Richardson, Vancouver, and Halifax-Robert Stanfield international airports.
The feature has still yet to reach international airports in Calgary, Edmonton, Toronto’s Billy Bishop, and Ottawa, but that will change “in the coming months,” says the federal government. Back in October, the Advance Declaration feature was launched for Halifax’s international airport.
The Advance CBSA Declaration feature allows travellers to submit their customs and immigration declaration to the CBSA, up to 72 hours in advance of their arrival in Canada. Previously, it was only available on the web, but in late June the feature was added to the ArriveCAN app, in an effort to lower travel wait times.
The CBSA says the new feature can cut wait times at primary inspection kiosks (PIK) “by roughly one third”.
The ArriveCAN app cost taxpayers about $54 million to develop and maintain, and recently has faced scrutiny over the transparency of who actually developed the app, which the CBSA chief said was unknown.
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Still trying to push this useless thing? It saves exactly 0 seconds for those with nothing to declare.
100% true… this save nothing
Better yet…”still looking for those 57mil $ that no one knows how it was spent?”
Let’s pour another 50mil into version 2.0 that adds 2 more cities….and so on.
This is Canada, we don’t mention controversies/investigations that are more than 36 hours old.