Port of Entry to the USA

[S&J2012 0]

My wife has never flown to the United States before and she will be flying solo because of my work that I cannot go to the Philippines to fly with her. I was wondering, can someone share your experience with me about your flying experience and your port of entry(POE) to the USA? Does she have to check through a different entry when she arrives in the USA? Her destination is flying from Manila to Minneapolis, MN. Thanks in advance for all of your help. God bless!!!!

[LeftCoastLady 441]

There are POE reviews for Minneapolis: http://www.visajourney.com/reviews/poereviews.php?poe=Minneapolis%2FSt+Paul&dfilter=0

Good luck!

[Dave&Roza 748]

You've posted this twice. Maybe the MODS can combine this with the one in IR-1/CR-1 visa forum. I hope you are checking both as I will answer here.

Her POE will be the first airport she lands at that is on US soil (or has preclearence). If she is landing in say LAX then has a connecting flight to MSP, LAX will be her POE and I would leave pleanty of time for her to get thru customs and immigration. You could fly to LAX and meet her, spend the night and fly to MSP the next day if your schedule will allow it. That way you get to see her sooner and help her navigate the airports in the US and that leaves plenty of time to get thru the whole immigration mess. My wife had a direct flight from Frankfurt to Denver so there was no connecting flight. We did that rather than have her go thru O'hare again.

Congrats on gettng to this step in the process,

Dave

Edited April 14, 2012 by Dave&Roza

[Shane and Lovely 22]

I actually was wondering about this also. Good thing for me my fiancee's childhood best friend lives in LA. So we'll schedule her POE to be there and her friend will meet her and my fiancee will spend a few days with her friend while I prepare things here for her arrival. A couple more days, but she'll have all the time she needs for entry and customs this way, and finally gets to see her best friends home. So everyone ends up happy.

[Leatherneck 693]

My wife has never flown to the United States before and she will be flying solo because of my work that I cannot go to the Philippines to fly with her. I was wondering, can someone share your experience with me about your flying experience and your port of entry(POE) to the USA? Does she have to check through a different entry when she arrives in the USA? Her destination is flying from Manila to Minneapolis, MN. Thanks in advance for all of your help. God bless!!!!

Congrats and good luck!