POE Montreal-Trudeau

[rachel-qc 0]

Anyone activated their K-1 visa at Dorval recently?

Any advice?

Im going about 4 hours ahead of time.

Taking the brown envelope, the medical envelope and my passport.

Anything else I need to remember?

[Udella&Wiz 325]

Anyone activated their K-1 visa at Dorval recently?

Any advice?

Im going about 4 hours ahead of time.

Taking the brown envelope, the medical envelope and my passport.

Anything else I need to remember?

You have a medical envelope? Do you mean your xrays? If so - the border guards do not need it.

[Veronik 19]

Hi!

I did my POE at Trudeau, so maybe I can help! My flight was at noon or something, and I got there at 9am. Ended up waiting with nothing to do for almost 2 hours! The POE itself is very smooth and quick. First you'll check in your bags, then you'll go through customs. I had made a detailed list of what was in each suitcase, but was never asked to show it. The guy at customs did a couple things on his computer, asked me a couple questions, took my package from the consulate, and walked with me to secondary. He gave my package to another woman, and she asked me to go and wait. By the way, when you go and wait there will be a section on your right, and a section on your left. The one on the right has ramps for luggages, and the section on the left has offices. I had to wait on the left side. I waited maybe 30 minutes and was asked in an office. The lady wasn't much talkative, but she was nice. She seemed to know what she was doing, and after 10 minutes I was out of there and free to go!

4 hours ahead of time is plenty!

Good luck and if you have more questions, let me know!

[AandB 3]

I did my POE at the airport too, very easy and they know what to do. I guess they see a lot of people in our situation. I wrote a review, if you go in the POE reviews, mine is in the CAN-USA border, and it's the bottom one on the first page. It's written POE at YUL at the top of it, easy to find. Hope you have a good POE

[Saddle Bronc 124]

I'll weigh-in by proxy on this. I got my GC (EB-3) at Montreal 1999/12/13, and activated it later the same day at Dorval (now Trudeau) POE.

Four hours is plenty of time. They will basically take the brown-envelope, hand you an I-94 with "K-1" and the expiry-date printed, and staple it to your passport (edit: for me they took an index-print and stamped I-551--the latter will NOT be done for K-1). As far as that X-ray, you won't need it after you exit the PFI successfully.

[rachel-qc 0]

My POE at Dorval is tomorrow.

I appreciate everyone's help on visajourney!

Anyone activated their K-1 visa at Dorval recently?

Any advice?

Im going about 4 hours ahead of time.

Taking the brown envelope, the medical envelope and my passport.

Anything else I need to remember?

[Kathryn41 3,205]

Good luck on your POEs and welcome to the US!