I will be driving in Mexico next week coming back through Nogales on Friday evening. What is the current situation regarding waiting time at the border? Is there any particular time the traffic is lighter than others? My thought is to try and cross early in the evening, park it, and walk back across for some fun. Any information will be greatly appreciated!

LTZ

I'm not sure what the situation is this week, however, I have spent anywhere from 2 hours to 4.5 hours in line since the Sept. 11 incident.

Last weekend I went to Rocky Point and did 4 hours waiting in line.

Lovesthezona - I was down several times in the last seven days. The waiting time for cars and pedestrian are back to normal.

Friday evening's gonna suck big time, though...

MrBillO^™--- ~ Your hapless lapdance reporter... ~

I was there last week and the line wait was about 5 minutes at 2:30pm. At 4:30 pm it was about 25-30 min, and at 5:30 it was about 45min to an hour. This was the pedestrian line!!.

There has been an ominous new directive to the US border: Customs/INS today. All pedestrians will will no be checked against a picture ID. Picture ID'S will be required. If you have the type of ID that can be scanned, eg military or new US Passport, it will take about 15 seconds per person. If you just use your State ID or Driver License, it will have to be entered manually, and verified against a database (database??) before you can go!!!. OUCH. Expect this to slow things considerably. Even though I waited about 15 minutes in line to get to the Border entrance, once I got there thet just asked my citizenship and allowed me to go. No more..ID checks all around now.

OG

Thanks to all who have responded so far. Sounds like it's gonna be a circus down there. I appreciate the pedestrian info, but what about the driving? Any preferred time to cross back to the US? I'll have the luxury of leaving Cd Obregon at any time Friday and am guessing its a 4-5 hour drive to Nogales.

I went across today, 15 minutes max. Back to normal!!!

ii

Check out this US customs web page listing wait times for all US border crossings:

http://nemo.customs.gov/process/bordertimes/bordertimes.asp

Kodiak
Thanks for the link :-)

LTZ

Excellent link, thanks Kodiak!

This was amazing. At midnight this Saturday night, there were cars backed up in all for lanes for about two miles going into AZ. I've never seen it that bad. Dudes, the cars were backed up WAY past Titanic, if that tells you anything. Sheesh. Even the pedestrian line took 45 minutes and had to wrap around one whole city block. I guess it's because everybody is cumming back after the holidays.

Speaking of the pedestrian line, I guess the cute girls get to butt in line and save about 90% of the wait. They just walk up to some dude and ask if they can butt in. Like they're going to say no... Dudes, you should have seen the chica right in front of me. GWAPA!! But... that's okay. MrBill will more than likely get his crack at you sooner or later. HAH!!

MrBill

How is the boarder since the war started? Is it holding things up. I want to go down this weekend but don't want something bad to happen and get stuck in mexico. Thanks.

I don't think you'll have any problem...I cross just about every day into the US then back to Mexico.Just the nornal weekend wait....time wise.

I don't think the war has had any change on things here

(Message edited by dragoncelt1 on April 05, 2003)

Last Saturday night, travel time walking from Lord Black to McDonalds parking lot on US side was about 4 minutes.

I've never actually seen a pedestrian line at Nogie.

The only time I've ever seen this as an issue was around 4pm on a Sunday afternoon. It took around 10-15 minutes to get through. I think people hear all the TJ border wait times and think that applies to all borders.

But what they don't realize is that the Nogales port of entry is no San Ysidro. San Ysidro is the busiest land border crossing in the world. The Dennis DeConcini port of entry at Nogales is penny ante stuff compared to San Ysidro.

Lets see, I've crossed at Matamoros 3-4 times, Reynosa 2 times, Nuevo Laredo 3 times, Juarez 3-4 times, Nogales 5-6 times, Agua Prieta once, Acuna once and TJ about 30 times. The only place I've ever had more than a 3 minute wait is TJ.

thats good to know. I have never had to wait at all in nogales. I had to wait two hours in tj last summer. It was a monster line on a saturday afternoon.