Moving

[Cristy 4]

Have a safe trip

[Lizzy 0]

Good luck!!!

[Freda 0]

Well we made it to ALabama,

The trip was uneventful, just very long. The POE was very easy. I was expecting it to be alot more stressful traveling with my toddler who is a USC and staying here with me but as yet we haven't filed his citizenship claim, my daughter whom I have shared custody of and who isn't staying here just coming for the summer, my parents and all our belongings. But the officers at the border in Houlton Maine were wonderful. He didn't want to inspect or have me fill out any forms for our stuff, just wanted to know if I was bringing a car with me and I wasn't. Didn't look at my parents or daughters id's except to ask if my daughter was immigrating with me soon as I said no and that I had a letter from her Father stating he knew she was with me for the summer, he said ok. Didn't look at my son much other than to see his fathers name on his Canadian birth certificate being the same as the one on my K1 visa. Although the little guy was traveling at this point for about 7 hours and was glad to be able to move about and did make a bit of noise nothing that I even noticed but the officer looked somewhat annoyed, which bothered me since he was extremely well behaved but obviously the officer didn't have children and seemed disturbed by the few little squeals of delight he made from being able to walk about. Then it was on to me. The officer hadn't processed many K1 visa's since he needed to do read it from the book and go step by step trough the book looking it over repeatedly. But I got to see what was in the mysterious brown envelope. And it wasn't all the exciting. It contained all the paperwork we filed from the original I-129 F to the stuff from Montreal. Only thing was it had alot of red writing and red stamps of approved on it. All he really had to to was verify the name and birthday were right, verify the address I was going to be living at, scan my visa, and verify the local consulate or whatever you call it here and put it in to the computer so they knew where to forward it all, then he stamped the paperwork in a few places printed out the I-94 stamped it gave me back my passport, had me pay the $6.00 and sent me on my way. It was funny how he couldn't find anything and I had to keep pointing it out to him, like the A number and where to find the medical report. He was looking through the stuff from California for it and I really didn't want to be there all night so I pointed it out to him. They obviously have to read it for any restrictions the consulate may have placed on you, woooooohooooooooo I had none. But it was a very easy entry. And now we all know whats in that brown envelope, nothing overly exciting. But the land crossing was very easy and a real anticlimax to what has been a very long stressful 8 months. Now time to relax for a week or so and then finish the wedding plans and start on the ssn#. Hope everyone else who came into the US this weekend had as easy and pleasant experience.

[Ladylethal 12]

That´s awesome! Congratulations !!!

[KarenCee 3]

WOOOO HOOOO Another Canadian in the South!!! Congratulations Freda....hope to meet up with you and Peggy soon!

[alexil74 0]

wow congratulations

[Kathryn41 3,205]

Congratulations Freda, n Glad that your crossing was uneventful, and

Welcome to the South!