Gov Travel

US visa wait times, border crossing delays, and FAA airport status. 3 tools for travel intelligence.

Security Scan

The skill is coherent in functionality but directs the agent to a third‑party MCP endpoint (apify.actor) while claiming data comes from government APIs and gives no provenance or privacy guidance — this mismatch and use of an external server warrants caution.

Purpose & Capability

The skill's stated purpose (visa wait times, border waits, FAA status) matches the listed tools and parameters. Requiring the mcporter binary is consistent with registering an external MCP server. However, the SKILL.md points the agent at an MCP hosted on immigration-travel-mcp.apify.actor (a third-party host), while the README asserts 'All data from free US government APIs' — there is a provenance mismatch (third‑party aggregator vs direct government endpoints) that is not explained.

Instruction Scope

The runtime instructions tell the agent to add a remote MCP server (https://immigration-travel-mcp.apify.actor/mcp) and/or write that server into the user's ~/.openclaw/mcp.json. That means user queries (city names, ports, airports) will be sent to that external service. The SKILL.md does not describe what the remote service does with queries, whether it logs or stores them, or whether it actually queries government APIs directly. Because the agent will forward user input to an external endpoint, this is a privacy/collection concern not addressed by the documentation.

Install Mechanism

This is instruction-only and has no install spec or archive downloads. The only runtime requirement is the mcporter binary being present; the skill does not attempt to install code itself. From an installation perspective, risk is low, but the skill depends on contacting a remote MCP endpoint, which is the primary operational risk.

Credentials

The skill requests no environment variables, no credentials, and no special config paths beyond optionally adding an MCP server entry to ~/.openclaw/mcp.json. There are no disproportionate secret requests.

Persistence & Privilege

always is false (normal). The SKILL.md instructs optionally writing a persistent entry into ~/.openclaw/mcp.json to register the gov-travel MCP server; that creates ongoing ability for the agent to contact the remote service without reconfiguration. Persistent registration is convenient but also increases the risk that future queries will be routed automatically to the third-party endpoint.

What to consider before installing

This skill will route your queries to a remote MCP server hosted at immigration-travel-mcp.apify.actor instead of (or in addition to) directly calling government endpoints. Before installing: 1) Decide whether you're comfortable sending travel queries (locations, planned crossings, flight info) to a third‑party service that could log or aggregate them. 2) Verify the mcporter binary you have is the intended tool (source and integrity). 3) If you need stronger privacy/provenance, prefer a skill that calls official government APIs directly or ask the author for details about the Apify actor (who operates it, code repository, and whether it proxies real government APIs). 4) Avoid adding the server entry to your persistent config unless you trust the operator — you can instead run mcporter add temporarily and inspect behavior. If you want further assessment, provide the operator's repository or the code behind the apify.actor endpoint so its behavior can be reviewed.

Immigration & Travel Intel

Real-time visa wait times, border crossing delays, and FAA airport status.

Setup

mcporter add gov-travel --url https://immigration-travel-mcp.apify.actor/mcp --transport streamable-http

Or add to your OpenClaw MCP config (~/.openclaw/mcp.json):

{
  "servers": {
    "gov-travel": {
      "url": "https://immigration-travel-mcp.apify.actor/mcp",
      "transport": "streamable-http"
    }
  }
}

Available Tools

travel_get_visa_wait_times

Get US visa wait times by embassy city.

Show visa wait times for London
What are current visa processing times?

Parameters: city, visaCategory

travel_get_border_wait_times

Get US border crossing wait times from CBP.

Show Mexican border wait times
What's the wait at the Canadian border for pedestrians?

Parameters: border ("Canadian Border" or "Mexican Border"), portName, laneType ("commercial", "passenger", or "pedestrian")

travel_get_airport_delays

Get FAA airport delays and event information.

Any delays at JFK right now?
Show FAA airport status for LAX and SFO

Parameters: airports (array, e.g. ["JFK","LAX"]), delayTypes (array)

Data Sources

• State Department — Visa appointment wait times
• CBP — Customs and Border Protection (border wait times)
• FAA — Federal Aviation Administration (airport delays)

Use Cases

• Travel planning and timing
• Border crossing optimization
• Flight delay monitoring
• Immigration processing estimates

All data from free US government APIs. Zero cost. No API keys required.