Proposed new rules for private flights outside the USA

[Rick Gardner]

We have been working with AOPA and US Customs and Border Protection in Washington on the eAPIS implentation and forwarding the issues that we, and our customers, are having with the system. We received a notification yesterday from CBP that as of 6:00 am yesterday, the email problems with eAPIS have been fixed. If anyone continues to have issues with receiving eAPIS emails would you please contact CBP, AOPA or myself so that we can forward the complaint on to CBP. None of our last 10 eAPIS submissions have worked properly (incomplete receipt of approval email from eAPIS) so we are very concerned. I will be on a trip to Panama through Central America next week and will test the system again myself but since the problems have been "hit or miss" for many pilots, what works for one may not work for another, so please keep speaking up if you have problems.