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AaronM   0

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My wife is already a green card holder ( 2 year permanant resident ). My question is , has anyone ever experience the officer at the port of entry make a big X mark using a pen on your visa that is already used and exprired prior to your recent travel back into usa . And also remove your I-94 from your passport page . And on the admitance stamp that was stamped on the visa page it says stay until , the officer wrote 17 days . Thank you

Inky Grand Master

Inky   1,111

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They are supposed to take out the I-94 but I have never heard of the rest of what they did to her passport..

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Your I-129f was approved in 5 days from your NOA1 date.

Your interview took 67 days from your I-129F NOA1 date.

AOS was approved in 2 months and 8 days without interview.

ROC was approved in 3 months and 2 days without interview.

I am a Citizen of the United States of America. 04/16/13

HeatDeath Proficient

HeatDeath   430

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When I PoE'd, the border officer circled the "1" in "Uses" on my K-1 visa and drew an arrow accross the visa imprint over to where the corresponding entrance stamp was. He did this, apparently, as something of an afterthought, right at the end of the process. It may have suddenly occurred to him that there was nothing that showed obviously that the visa was used [and therefore canceled], and this concerned him.

Something similar may have happened here. The officer may have had a hard time telling if the visa was canceled and wanted to spare any future officers the momentary confusion.

DON'T PANIC

"It says wonderful things about the two countries [Canada and the US] that neither one feels itself being inundated by each other's immigrants."

-Douglas Coupland

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Brother Hesekiel   2,236

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A US visa is for visiting the US. Permanent residents do not visit the US, they live there. The visa is void, which is what the I.O. marked.

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

Inky Grand Master

Inky   1,111

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A US visa is for visiting the US. Permanent residents do not visit the US, they live there. The visa is void, which is what the I.O. marked.

why would he mark 17 days on it then when the person has a greencard?

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Your I-129f was approved in 5 days from your NOA1 date.

Your interview took 67 days from your I-129F NOA1 date.

AOS was approved in 2 months and 8 days without interview.

ROC was approved in 3 months and 2 days without interview.

I am a Citizen of the United States of America. 04/16/13

HeatDeath Proficient

HeatDeath   430

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That was the part about the original message that got me. The I-94 makes sense. The X over the visa makes sense, even if it's slightly unusual.

Maybe the OP's wife was out of the country for 17 days?

DON'T PANIC

"It says wonderful things about the two countries [Canada and the US] that neither one feels itself being inundated by each other's immigrants."

-Douglas Coupland

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AaronM   0

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My wife k-1 visa was issued March 05, 2009 and expired on May 20, 2009 . She entered the usa on April 03, 2009 , and we got married April 21, 2009 . her 2 year green card was issued August 15,2009 and exprires August 15, 2011 . We took the trip to the philippines November 23, 2010 and got back to usa December 07, 2010 . So 14 day trip , i guess it makes since why the officer at port of entry crossed out her visa . Since it's allready expried , but my wife is a permanant resident , why the officer wrote 17 days on the admitance stamp under stay until . Does not make that much since to me , and i hope this does'nt cause us any problems when we file removal of conditions . Even when we left the philippines at the international airport in Manila . The security asked for our certificate of marriage . but when we arrived in usa the officer at the port of entry never asked us for the certificate of marriage . Just the tickets passports and permanant residence card .

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My wife k-1 visa was issued March 05, 2009 and expired on May 20, 2009 . She entered the usa on April 03, 2009 , and we got married April 21, 2009 . her 2 year green card was issued August 15,2009 and exprires August 15, 2011 . We took the trip to the philippines November 23, 2010 and got back to usa December 07, 2010 . So 14 day trip , i guess it makes since why the officer at port of entry crossed out her visa . Since it's allready expried , but my wife is a permanant resident , why the officer wrote 17 days on the admitance stamp under stay until . Does not make that much since to me , and i hope this does'nt cause us any problems when we file removal of conditions . Even when we left the philippines at the international airport in Manila . The security asked for our certificate of marriage . but when we arrived in usa the officer at the port of entry never asked us for the certificate of marriage . Just the tickets passports and permanant residence card .

Don't worry it will not cause any problem at ROC. Since your wife is a PR, I think the officer was writing her length of stay outside the USA (and just got confused thinking it was 17 days instead of 14). Several other GC holders have reported having their length of absence written on their arrival stamp so it is not uncommon.

 
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