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Filed: IR-1/CR-1 Visa Country: Mexico
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Ok, not sure in which forum to post this...sorry if I got the wrong one.

My husband has gone to the States now twice with his tourist visa. But both times he went he went on a separate trip from me or we were only dating. This is the first time we're going to the States together AND as a married couple. We're also traveling with our daughter who has her Consular Report of Birth Abroad and her US Passport. Can we all go in the same line when we enter at Houston/POE or does he have to go in a separate line? If it's the same line, do I go to his or does he come to mine?

Thanks.

Filed: Citizen (apr) Country: Australia
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Ok, not sure in which forum to post this...sorry if I got the wrong one.

My husband has gone to the States now twice with his tourist visa. But both times he went he went on a separate trip from me or we were only dating. This is the first time we're going to the States together AND as a married couple. We're also traveling with our daughter who has her Consular Report of Birth Abroad and her US Passport. Can we all go in the same line when we enter at Houston/POE or does he have to go in a separate line? If it's the same line, do I go to his or does he come to mine?

Thanks.

How is he entering? Tourist visa? Is his visa still processing? Please update your timeline!

If he is trying to enter on a tourist visa he may well be denied unless he shows strong ties. He obviously is a visitor so he enters in the visitor line

If he is trying to enter on his CR1 or IR1 (whatever you applied for) then he would be in the citizen line.

Edited by Vanessa&Tony
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There are many possible answers to this. Here's mine:

A party (like a family) traveling together should stay together. Since your husband is not a US citizen, he shouldn't be in the citizen line. When my wife and I travel, I'm not entering the US citizens line, as long as it is not marked US citizens & permanent residents, so mostly I'm in the visitors line, and my wife stays with me.

However . . . there's another twist to this in your particular case. If your husband enters as a visitor, with you, at the same time, the Immigration Officer might be wondering if he's not trying to adjust status. As you probably know, people who are married to a USC and trying to adjust status would need an CR-1 or IR-1 visa. Thus, the I.O. might stamp your husband's passport, prohibiting him from adjusting status on this trip.

If he's planing to go home without adjusting status, none of this matters to you.

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all . . . . The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic . . . . There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else.

President Teddy Roosevelt on Columbus Day 1915

Filed: IR-1/CR-1 Visa Country: Mexico
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There are many possible answers to this. Here's mine:

A party (like a family) traveling together should stay together. Since your husband is not a US citizen, he shouldn't be in the citizen line. When my wife and I travel, I'm not entering the US citizens line, as long as it is not marked US citizens & permanent residents, so mostly I'm in the visitors line, and my wife stays with me.

However . . . there's another twist to this in your particular case. If your husband enters as a visitor, with you, at the same time, the Immigration Officer might be wondering if he's not trying to adjust status. As you probably know, people who are married to a USC and trying to adjust status would need an CR-1 or IR-1 visa. Thus, the I.O. might stamp your husband's passport, prohibiting him from adjusting status on this trip.

If he's planing to go home without adjusting status, none of this matters to you.

OK, I'm a bit confused.

We are just starting the CR-1/IR-1 process through DCF in Mexico with the Ciudad Juarez Consulate. I have not sent in any paperwork as of yet. I hope to send in the I-130 petition right before we leave Mexico. Ok, maybe I wasn't very clear. My husband is going on his tourist visa because we are only going for a 2 week vacation to visit my parents. We both will return to Mexico after as we live here and will continue to live here until his CR-1/IR-1 is processed. Again we're doing DCF.

So I ask again, should me and our daughter line up with him in the Visitor's line even though we both are USC?

Filed: AOS (apr) Country: Philippines
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I think if it were me, I would want to enter together, so that I was able to explain that I, as the USC, is currently residing in Mexico. Whether it was in the USC line or the visitor line does not much matter.... Ask the crowd control officer at the POE what to do when you arrive

Edited by payxibka

YMMV

Filed: IR-1/CR-1 Visa Country: Mexico
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I think if it were me, I would want to enter together, so that I was able to explain that I, as the USC, is currently residing in Mexico. Whether it was in the USC line or the visitor line does not much matter.... Ask the crowd control officer at the POE what to do when you arrive

I agree. I want to enter together. We are a family! But I didn't know any of what people mentioned above about doing an AOS and all that. I don't want the agent to think that that is what we are doing and somehow affect us later in the DCF process (which we are JUST starting). All 3 of us are going together, but my hubby has to return to Mexico earlier than us as he runs a business. My daughter and I will enjoy our time with my parents and come back 3 weeks after him.

 
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