DCF'er traveling to States with non USC and baby...advice?

[Adichiwa 0]

The only reason I'm quite paranoid is because once you file for an IR you're no longer considered a "visitor" into the U.S. This means that in order for you to enter the US on a visit, you need to prove (and I mean PROVE) that you're not going to disappear in the US and either await your visa there, or work illegally while your visa is pending.

The thing that sucks about this most, is that even though I'll bring my ENTIRE filling cabinet to the border, at the end of the day, I may be forced to live apart from my husband for as long as the officer decides. I've looked into this with Immigration Lawyers and the Supervisor of the US Customs and Border Patrol and they both confirmed that it's up to whatever officer we happen to meet..... living apart from my husband is not what I imagined for a new marriage.

HERE'S TO STAYING POSITIVE (and maybe show some leg).

I'd just like to say that when I travelled to the states with my then 4 month old son and my USC husband in 2008 I didnt give immigration another thought cos I wasn't intending to emigrate to the states at all, we were only going for a couple of weeks so our son could meet his grandparents. We entered in Newark, flew to Houston and then finally landed in Seattle.

Infact I would have been really suprised and mystified as to why I was being asked about ties to Ireland etc.

Maybe going through this whole process of obtaining an immigrant visa and reading about other folks applying for visas,and theres so much info on here about every aspect of immigration has made people paranoid, unless theres something I'm not understanding here?

I'm not saying you are paranoid Jaremedios, ofcourse I'm not and apologies if it comes across like that. I'm just trying to get my head around why anyone would be randomly questioned when innocently going on holiday .

[jaremedios 1]

I only got paranoid after somebody here on VJ mentioned that it's very possible that it will look suspicious that a Mexican citizen on a tourist visa is traveling with his USC wife and USC child with no intention of staying illegally in the country. I had never even thought of any of that until someone here mentioned that my hubby could do an adjustment of status once in the US and since the border patrol is aware of people doing that might suspect something in our particular situation. Pls remember that Mexico is a border country and many illegals are there causing a huge problem with immigrant issues. I think sometimes when tourists from other countries enter US, it's a different story completely. Needless to say, everything went well and we enjoyed a very nice holiday with my parents.