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1. What is API?
API stands for Advance Passenger Information. As security procedures tighten in America, the government requires new passenger information in advance. This new passenger information is in addition to current passenger information and all airlines must comply.

2. What API information needs to be provided by passengers entering America?
Passengers entering America must provide the following information: Name, Sex, Birth Date, Nationality, Travel Certificate Number, Type of Travel Certificate, Valid Period of Travel Certificate, Issuing Country of Travel Certificate, Residing Country and Temporary Address in America. Passengers that are US Citizens, US Permanent Residents or are traveling out of the US within 24 hours do not need to provide a temporary address in America.

3. What API information needs to be provided by passengers leaving America?
Passengers leaving America must provide the following information: Name, Sex, Birth Date, Nationality, Travel Certificate Number, Type of Travel Certificate, Valid Period of Travel Certificate and Issuing Country of Travel Certificate.

4. For passengers staying at multiple addresses in America, what address should be input on the form?
Passengers staying at multiple addresses in America only need to list the first address they are staying at.

5. What details need to be included in the address in America?
Passengers staying in America need to list the street name, city, and state in the address section.

6. Passengers that are students arriving in America before the term starts, what address should be input on the form?
Students should list the first address they are staying at in America whether it is at a relative’s or friend’s house or at a hotel.

7. If a passenger has dual citizenship, which travel certificate information should be input on the form?
Passengers with dual citizenship should input the information from the travel certificate they plan on using to go through immigration in America.

 

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