Husband POE'd at Peace Bridge Today

[Cowgirl2 0]

Hi guys,

As some of you know it has been a pretty long journey for us to get my husband's IR-1 visa (approx 1.5yrs) due to proof of domicile and Montreal's extreme laziness. Today marked the end of that journey!! This is a review of his POE after I harassed him to tell me everything in detail so i can post it here!

My husband arrived at Peace bridge at around 1pm and to his surprise it was really busy and crowded. He told the officer that he needed to activate his visa so they told him to park on the side. He went in and took a number. It took approximately 1 hr to be called up. He went up and handed the envelope to the officer (a lady). She opened it up and asked him to go wash his hands so she could take his fingerprints (LOL). She browsed through all the paperwork and commented on how organized everything was (I had labelled every document starting from 1 and on and put it in a file with a table of content in the front). She had him sign a few forms and she stamped his passport/visa. She didnt even ask him what he was bringing with him even though he had his inventory list ready. The only questions asked were where he was headed and where his wife (me) was. He told him his destination and he actually did tell he that I'm in Canada at this moment, but she did not further question him why I was in Canada which I was pretty surprised about. We did go through the DCF route too. I moved to the US 6 months ago, but I came back mid-June for my Canadian citizenship test and I'm not leaving till this Tuesday to take care of all the little things that my husband was too much of a man to do. The entire process took about 10 minutes, but the waiting is what took the longest. She browsed through all the paperwork while he was washing his hands and when he got back it was sign, stamp and out sort of thing. The lady officer seemed to know what she was doing and was pretty quick. I told my husband maybe he was lucky that the border was busy as that may have saved him from many other questions he could have been asked. All in all, he said he would recommend the Peace bridge for POE as the people there know what they are doing.

Btw, he asked her if he should expect his SSN in a few weeks and she told him that he has to go to the office and apply for it. I am pretty sure we ticked the SSN box in our original application. Either way I told my husband to just go to the office and take care of it. Do you think he should wait a week or two and then go, or should he just go Monday?

[Flames9_RN 358]

after 10-14 business days and NO ssn card, then download the form at ssa.gov, along with passport/birth cert and head to local ssn office and inquire about it!! if no tin system, then simply hand over already filled out form!!. congrats

[LeslienScott 6]

Thanks for the review! I plan on POE at Peace Bridge, hopefully Nov 1st (i'll take earlier) I always like crossing there. In fact I will be in the morning

[OBX 51]

Congratulations on a smooth POE! Sounds very similar to my experience at the Peace Bridge.

As far as the SSN goes, I also checked off the box on the DS-230 but I followed flames advice, went to my local SSN office with my passport, birth certificate and filled in form SSN Application and I had my card 6 days later.

[antda 13]

Cowgirl2-Congrats on a successful POE and Welcome to America!!! And thanks for sharing about that experience here on VJ!

Glad that it didn't take you too long to cross on the Peace Bridge either, and that you made it across ok...

Welcome to America, Cowgirl2!!! Good luck with the rest of your journey too.

Ant

[slider100 8]

Congratulations!

KnR aka slider100

[Ontarkie 14,518]

Congrats

[Married2009 32]

I am glad your husband's POE was uneventful. Grats!