MONTREAL P.O.E. EXPERIENCE

[domegirl1978 1]

Hi everyone! I've been missing in action for the past few weeks and wanted to give you all the info from my POE from Montreal.

I got to the airport and immediately realized that there was a problem as soon as I got to the customs area. I had arrived at the airport 3 hours before my flight and I was stuck in the customs line for over 2 hours. The Montreal airport really needs to hire more people. It was absolutely friggin' ridiculous. 45 minutes before my flight I started freaking out and told a guard that I needed to get into secondary immediately so that I would not miss my flight. The guard ended up taking me back to secondary and thats where the fun began. (I'm being SUPER SARCASTIC).

The customs guy I got was a MASSIVE JERK. And I'm being nice when I say JERK. He asked me to hand over my sealed envelope and passport and he went into a room and looked everything over. He called me in about 10 minutes later and began to grill the ####### out of me. At one point I said to him, sir I don't understand why I am being interrogated as if i am a criminal. The Consulate gave me my visa so obviously everything I had paperwork wise had to have been in order or else they wouldn't have issued me a visa.

He did not like that at all and proceeded to grill me even further and then told me that he wasn't buying my story (what that meant I have no idea because I wasn't telling him anything but the truth and what I had told people at the Consulate. He then proceeded to tell me that if he wanted to he could rip my visa out of my passport and send me home. I FREAKED. I remained calm though and asked him what information seemed to being missing. He could not answer that. Basically this guy was on a sick power trip and wasted my time by being an absolute d*ck.

He finally put the i-94 in my passport and said: you HAD BETTER get married in the next 90 days or YOU WILL BE DEPORTED. I said don't worry about it, I'll be married in 3 weeks. He then said: Well you'd better hope you have your story straight for when you get to your AOS. I decided to be a b*itch at this point since I had what I needed and was booting it to my gate so I said: There is no story to get straight SIR, everything I have said is the truth and every paper I have filled out has been truthful as well. There was no need to be so rude to me and I plan on making a complaint against you.

There were some very nice people in the customs area but I got the jerk. Everything else went smoothly and I made my flight.

We are getting married next Friday on Nov. 20th and going on our honeymoon on Dec. 12th for 10 days.

We`ve decided not to file for AOS until after the honeymoon so that we have all kinds of pictures from the wedding and the honeymoon.

Also I have to go get my license and we are opening our joint bank account right after the wedding so we have that for AOS as well.

I hope for any of you that go through Montreal that you get the nice people and not this idiot. I think if he had ripped my visa out of my passport it may have been like a Jerry Springer epsiode where I reached over his desk and ripped out his hair. LOL....bast*ard made me cry like a baby and there was no need for all that rudeness.

And I hope you are all doing well and everything is going smoothly for you all. I`ll be back in 10 days with AOS questions.....hahahaha.

[slider100 8]

I am so sorry that you had a bad experience at the POE but all that matters is you got through it and now you don't have to worry about it ! Congratulations and good luck on the upcoming wedding !

[Missa 0]

wow.. just wow what a complete #######. i'm glad you didn't miss your flight because of him. he was so bluffing too. your passport is the property of the canadian government and i'm pretty sure its some sort of crime to rip out anything that is official government property. also the orders for your visa come from WAY higher up than him lol what an #######

was he a younger guy? just wondering

[Wyatt's Torch 45]

Wow, that's so horrible!

But like Slider said, you're through it now! Some POE guards probably aren't up to speed on the details of a K-1 visa. Still, there was no need for his ignorance to translate into belligerence.

[domegirl1978 1]

No thats the thing. He wasn`t a younger guy. He was probably about 40. And ********* is the right way to describe him.

I called the airport and told them i wanted to make a complaint against one of their customs agents but who knows if they even did anything.

[lgg 2]

Wow. Just wow. What an absolute ahole. I am really sorry that this happened to you. I hope that you DO file a complaint against him -- there was no need to be that much of a jack*ss.

Well, I am glad you made it through and all is well but god...

Some people, eh?

[SapphireDreams 71]

You know, its funny. I was grilled a lot too when I was going through my POE with my visa! I didn't have quite the jerk you had, but I was grilled nonetheless and so I totally know what you were going through.

After awhile the woman I had just sort of lightened up a bit so it was a bit easier on me, but I don't know why some of them act like that!

I'm sorry you had to experience that, but be happy it's over! I wouldn't even worry about your AOS, he was definitely sending you empty threats.

Congrats on the wedding. You are getting married on my birthday

[trailmix 77]

I'm sorry you had to go through that - no need for him to be rude to you! Glad you are filing a complaint.

[Inky 1,110]

That really sucks!! could they really do that? just rip the page out?? isnt that illegal or something? o-o

[kizza 1]

Ugh! sorry to hear about your experience. "Im not buying your story" WTH? Maybe I wont use Montreal as my POE

When I have to deal with rude people of his kind, I comfort myself (once Ive calmed down) by thinking of how miserable they must in general to treat people like that. ... And you are getting married!! Loser 0 / Domegirl 1

[Hugglebuggles 60]

That doesn't sounds like much fun! Wow. Sorry you had such a crappy experience!

Just in case you didn't know, you don't need to submit any relationship evidence with your AOS package. Pictures, evidence of bank accounts etc. are only needed later if you end up being issued an interview. So you can file AOS whenever you want! But I would wait til after the honeymoon too. Why worry? Congrats and share some of those wedding pictures!!

[Tim and Erin 3]

Ugh! sorry to hear about your experience. "Im not buying your story" WTH? Maybe I wont use Montreal as my POE

When I have to deal with rude people of his kind, I comfort myself (once Ive calmed down) by thinking of how miserable they must in general to treat people like that. ... And you are getting married!! Loser 0 / Domegirl 1

Good attitude, kizza!

[Jo&Si 9]

I'm really sorry to hear that Domergirl!!!

I think you should try to find out where make a BIG and POWERFULL complaint ...I mean higher than at airport custom...that jerk deserves to have a lesson!!!

You are not criminal! you are just in love and want to be with your love!!!

He is probably alone and miserable!!!!!!!!!

When I crossed at Montreal Airport on November 8th I have my interview letter for Nov 25th the Offficer seemed very bothered about me going to visit my fiance ... I knew that he didn`t like to let me go but he has no reason to refuse me...and I'm glad he was not a jerk like the one you got!!!

Man!!!!!!!! We are doing everything legally and do our possible to get everything in order and very clear for them...I know the POE can deny our entry even we have our visa but after all the process we do why they should do that...I mean if nobody found something wrong in our case in all the process why the POE should make a big deal of our entry!!!!!!!!!!!

So much people get power trip when they are on that kind of job...so sad!!!!!!!!!!!

Like other said already Congrats on the wedding and enjoy your honeymoon! it goes so fast!!!

Take care

jo

[Dan and Ali 3]

I am also sorry to hear about your experience with the officer! I agree with everyone else ... putting in a formal complaint against the officer sounds like a great idea. There's no reason that you should have been treated that way ... you did everything legally and you have the visa in your passport for a reason! On the bright side ... you're there, you're getting married and you have a honeymoon coming up!

[Tim and Erin 3]

I say we should all take a vote whether domegirl should put in a "formal" complaint or not. I don't think complaining to the airport would have any results at all. Perhaps someone around her can point her in the right direction?

My vote........go for it! The idiot deserves what's coming to him! At the least, maybe he'll have to go through training again.