Nervous! Preparing fo POE in Newark!

[Nymphadora 1]

You should be ok with what you have mentioned. The most important of all is your return ticket with a specific date, and you have that, everything else is a plus.

The copy of the bank statement you're going to bring will support this, that is also good.

Yes, they will, but they will still be asking you questions. Just be truthful and to the point, don't offer anything more than what they are asking you.

Whether you call him your friend or boyfriend really doesn't matter to CBP, the truth does. I have been back and forth to Canada to visit my girlfriend(now wife) numerous times and she has come to the states to visit me also, never have we had a problem because we used the term "boyfriend" or "girlfriend". Tell the truth, you should be fine.

So, what ddi you bring to prove your ties to your home country, if I may ask?

Where you ever asked a lot of questions?

[Nymphadora 1]

And my bf says that I should tell them that I'm staying with a friend, because he hasn't proposed to me yet.

[Nymphadora 1]

I mean, we've met once berfore IRL, and we are in love, so I guess it's considered as a boyfriend/girlfriend relationship.

I just don't want to say the wrong things at the POE, and be sent back home because I said something wrong or screwed it up in some way.

[Harpa Timsah 13,258]

Cause a person wrote to me, in another forum, that the word "boyfriend" has a total different meaning in english than in swedish.

The person said that if I say that he's my "boyfriend", the american's (CBP) will think that we live together, are engaged and as good as married already.

Whoever told you this is wrong. Was it a native english speaker? 'Cause that is just making stuff up.

[teddy k 35]

just tell the truth at Poe-but since you are staying for 88 days you should look at the 30/60/90 ruling too

[Nymphadora 1]

just tell the truth at Poe-but since you are staying for 88 days you should look at the 30/60/90 ruling too

what is that?

[teddy k 35]

what is that?

about getting married while you are over here already

[Harpa Timsah 13,258]

That's not a "thing" anyway, so you can ignore it. The OP said she was pursuing a K-1 anyway.

Edited May 12, 2012 by Harpa Timsah

[GandK 168]

I went to visit my fiancee during K-1 process in Feb 2012. My POE was Newark airport too.

The CBP only asked me two questions

1) How long are you staying in Hawaii?

2) Is your connecting flight tomorrow?

The whole thing was over in about 20 seconds. I also visited her back in December 2011.

Had a lot of proof of ties with me, I dumbed them all in the trash container in the luggage claim area.

[Nymphadora 1]

I went to visit my fiancee during K-1 process in Feb 2012. My POE was Newark airport too.

The CBP only asked me two questions

1) How long are you staying in Hawaii?

2) Is your connecting flight tomorrow?

The whole thing was over in about 20 seconds. I also visited her back in December 2011.

Had a lot of proof of ties with me, I dumbed them all in the trash container in the luggage claim area.

Okay, so they might not even ask me about whom I'm staying with?

But since I'm giving them the adress to my boyfriend's house, they probably will, since the officer asked about that the last time.

[Nymphadora 1]

It's just that we have been waiting for about 4,5 months to see each other again, and I just want to make sure I do and say the right things so that they won't send me back to Sweden when I get there.

[fantonledzepp 159]

It's just that we have been waiting for about 4,5 months to see each other again, and I just want to make sure I do and say the right things so that they won't send me back to Sweden when I get there.

I totally understand you. We all do. We are all in this journey and know how hard it is to be apart. And it is very hard at times.

Just remember, please don't lie at POE. Say what's true, you don't want them to have something against you come interview time.

[Nymphadora 1]

I totally understand you. We all do. We are all in this journey and know how hard it is to be apart. And it is very hard at times.

Just remember, please don't lie at POE. Say what's true, you don't want them to have something against you come interview time.

I will not lie at the POE. I just hope that it'll all go smooth. I'll be devastated if it won't...