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Stuart and Thea   95

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Okay, looks like I'm finally getting my visa! Honey is coming up to load the truck up on Wed night, Thurs morning. We'll be looking at crossing on Friday if all goes well with picking up the visa. Is that just insane? Should we try for Thurs night instead because of all the cross border shoppers? Or would Thursday night be even worse?

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March 21 2012 - Biometrics
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Eric n Christina   1

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Okay, looks like I'm finally getting my visa! Honey is coming up to load the truck up on Wed night, Thurs morning. We'll be looking at crossing on Friday if all goes well with picking up the visa. Is that just insane? Should we try for Thurs night instead because of all the cross border shoppers? Or would Thursday night be even worse?

Thats the craziest idea ive ever heard... those boarders will be a 3 and 4 hour wait by dinner time thursday because alot of the retailers are opening earlier this year...you may not make a CBP agent very happy for making this decision!! lol Good Luck with POE

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Okay, looks like I'm finally getting my visa! Honey is coming up to load the truck up on Wed night, Thurs morning. We'll be looking at crossing on Friday if all goes well with picking up the visa. Is that just insane? Should we try for Thurs night instead because of all the cross border shoppers? Or would Thursday night be even worse?

what border are you crossing at? I would suggest you wait til saturday if you can.... rent a hotel and have a romantic evening!

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Wyatt's Torch   45

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I remember visiting my wife's family in Buffalo for Thanksgiving a couple of years ago. I flew into Hamilton on the Wednesday, and crossed the border (Rainbow Bridge, I think) around 12:30 a.m. on Thursday morning. It was completely quiet, with only a few vehicles in front of us. So if you can get everything packed and loaded on Wednesday, it might be your best bet to get across the border as soon as possible, even if it's in the middle of the night, then grab a hotel if need be. The borders DO get pretty insane for the entire weekend.

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Udella&Wiz   325

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I doubt it will be too bad - hit the border at 8 or 9 Friday morning and all the crazy Black Friday people have already crossed...You're going to secondary anyway to be processed, what's a few minutes extra wait? We've gone on US Thanksgiving, Christmas eve and everything in between - as long as we hit it early there's hardly any traffic at the Peace Bridge in Buffalo

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I was thinking the same thing as Udella&Wiz. My former Sister-in-law is one of the insane black Friday shoppers and she always wanted to be in the US for store openings at 0400 hrs on the Friday. I would think that later on during the Friday you would be okay.

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Stuart and Thea   95

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Hmmm... I had convinced honey to wait till Saturday after showing him this thread, guess we'll play it by ear then! Mind you, mom bought a turkey and planned to make a thanksgiving meal here for him, albeit on the Friday, so he might just want to hang around anyway!

Jan 21 2011 sent I-129F package to Dallas lockbox - they lost it
Mar 22 2011 - Sent I-129F package to Dallas lockbox second time
May 2 2011 - NOA1 at CSC
July 15 2011 - NOA2!!!
July 21 2011 - Hardcopy of NOA2 received in mail
Aug 9 2011 - Case forwarded to Montreal
Sep 7 2011 - Packet 4 sent from embassy
Oct 27 2011 - Interview
Nov 12 2011 - Intended POE VISA delayed due to typo on son's name at the consulate
Nov 22 2011 - Picked up Visa
Nov 26 2011 - New intended POE date
Dec 10 2011 - Wedding
Jan 12 2012 - Sent AOS package
Feb 1 2012 - They send rejection notice, they lost a signature page
Feb 4 2012 - Resent package
Feb 14 2012 - NOA2
Feb 22 2012 - NOA3
March 21 2012 - Biometrics
March 30 2012 - NOA4
May 16 2012 - Interview date

April 2014 - application for I751 Removal of Conditions
May 7 2014 - NOA for notice of receipt and extension letter received
May 8 2014- Verification of inclusion of a dependent letter received
Not dated but in May - letter requesting interview received
July 10 2014 - ASC appointment notice for biometrics received

July 24 2014 Biometrics appointment

Jan 22 2015 - USCIS call

March 18 2015 - USCIS call

April 2 2015 - USCIS call

May 14 2015 - Infopass appt

July 21 2015 - infopass appt

Sept 18 2015 - infopass appt
Feb 25 2016 - USCIS call
Feb 25 2016 - Ombudsman request form sent

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SapphireDreams   71

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I'd be more worried about Americans travelling back to the US from Canada on the Friday morning. Not sure if there would be that many, but I can't imagine the borders are going to be that quiet this weekend. They say the days around thanksgivings are the busiest travel days of the year (says the girl travelling this weekend!)

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