His dad opened the Do Not Open envelope....

[Athena13 10]

oh mine..... but good you will get it soon!

[Austramerican 83]

Thank you guys XD yeah we can laugh about it now and I forsee it being a running joke with him and us XDDD Ben says we'll tell our kids the legend of the do not open envelope

He hasn't gotten it back yet but if it is not here by tomorrow we will check on the status because he is hoping to fly out this coming Monday

[Austramerican 83]

He got it yesterday and booked his flight for monday! So it all worked out in the end! Future reference for anyone else who finds themselves in this position:

Vanessa&Tony was spot on:

I believe you need an appointment. I recall at my interview a couple in front of me trying to get in without interview and being denied. I suggest you email, flag it urgent and subject "URGENT - IMMIGRATION ENVELOPE OPENED - FLIGHT xx/xx/xx". Wait for a response. You might need to delay any flights until it's fixed. You're right they won't let him in with it opened. You'll need to find out how long they need to fix it. Sometimes it's just a quick re-taping, sometimes they want time (a week or so) to go through the entire file to make sure it's not been altered and nothing has been removed. So it could be a day trip, could be multiple trips.

I think it helped that we put our target flight date on there So a big thank you to Vanessa&Tony for saving my sanity XDDD

[SweetDelish 38]

Good to hear things worked out and hes on his way in a few days.