Michigan's population goes up by 1 today

[antda 13]

Hi CDAgirlMI

Welcome to America! (and to the mitten state..dress warmly..as it probably is cold there too..)

Congrats on a successful POE and thanks for sharing that experience here on vj!

Good luck with the rest of your journey here in America! Welcome!

Ant

So I made the big move earlier today!!! Crossed the Ambassador bridge into Detroit.

I'll try to make this short....

We(mom, dad, Matt & I) packed the trucks & got to the border around 2pm. Told the officer at the booth I was activating my K1 visa. Also told them I was importing my firearm(got an import permit from the ATF) & had a bank draft that was over $10,000. He told us to pull over into secondary. My mom & dad passed through the booth without any problems & drove to Matt's apartment.

The officers directing us to park in secondary asked Q's about the gun & asked to see my permit & verify the serial # on the gun. Then told us to go inside.

Got in there & eventually were called up to the counter. I gave him my K1 visa package with passport. He was new(or new at dealing with visas) so he was getting help from a senior officer. Few mins later after we were waiting, the female senior officer called me to the counter & said......here it comes....

my visa was expired!!!!! #######!?!?!?!?!?!

(read my timeline...my interview was on Nov 20th...& I received it in the mail the following Friday).

And the funny thing is this..she showed me a page in the package & there was a stamp that read VISA EXP & handwritten beside it was Dec 13 2009.

I have NO IDEA what that is.

I told her I had 6 months to activate it. She asked why I didn't move over as soon as I got the package. I told her again, I had 6 months & I wanted to wait till after Christmas. I started to cry(wouldn't you?). The 2 officers told me not to cry & they would figure it out.

She called me back up & said they got it straightened out, and they were going to finish whatever they had to do & I'd be on my way.

I had to fill out more papers because of the bank draft & the firearm.

All in all it took us less than an hour.

It was a little un-organized dealing with so many officers telling me one thing, than another telling me something else. I was just glad to be on my way after they told me I was good-to-go.

1 question to anyone here: what was up with that expiry date. I mean, I saw it for myself! I hope nobody else has to go through that (although it was only a few mins of trying to figure it all out).

I am Glad I made it & we're finally relaxing in the "mitten" State!!

[Mephys 2]

Congratulations!

Now we got one more person to join our army to assimilate them