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by goatforce5 4908 days ago
My full legal name is longer than average and seems to get truncated by lots of computer systems (and/or will be abbreviated by data-entry people, etc.). It means that my ESTA record doesn't 100% match my passport, and i'd always get a raised eyebrow a couple of questions, and it would normally be OK.

One time a guy said "I don't have time for this" and sent me to secondary. After waiting about an hour I saw the secondary inspector and he told me the front line guys would send anyone back that they couldn't process in a couple of minutes and to expect it to happen again in the future.