Washington: Thousands of travellers at US airports faced delays late on Friday because of a nationwide outage of US Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) processing systems, officials said.
CBP said in a statement the outage was temporary and “officers continue to process international travellers using alternative procedures until systems are back online. Travellers at some ports of entry are experiencing longer than usual wait times.”
A Customs spokeswoman could not offer an estimate on when the system would be back and running. The computer issue is not impacting departures.
