Fiance travel to US alone

[JohnL 4]

I guess it happens all the time. Does everybody go and pick up their fiance's and help them to pass immigration? Should I go back down and escort my Spanish speaking fiance? Do I need to be there? It is the holiday season and plane fares are more than doubled. Any suggestions? Is the system set up so fiances can cross easily? If I do go, is there anything that I must make sure happens? I have heard that not all POE's will stamp her passport with a Temp. EAD............John

[sunandmoon 450]

yes, the only way to go thru immigration with her, would be to fly here with her. many POE's would have spanish speaking immigration officers. perhaps if you post the POE, someone could relate their experience with a similar situation.

[PlatyPius 5]

You can't go "help her through immigration". You have to wait on the other side of the security line. Unless, as mentioned, you fly down there first. Seems like a lot of money to spend to "help" for something that lots of people do on their own every day.

Edited December 3, 2006 by PlatyPius

[Bruce n Jen 0]

ditto - you can't go through immigration with her - my fiancee has flown here twice on a visitor's visa - it really is a non-issue coming here.

[TucsonBill 0]

If she was my bride, I'd go get her, bring her and help her! (my two cents).

Bill

[jsnearline 2]

Part of it depends on whether you can afford the time and money to go there to bring her here with you. As much as I wanted to, we opted not to do that given a 24 hour flight from DC to Manila and the same coming back. The main thing is to make sure she has some US currency or a credit card and that she has some emergency numbers to call if she has a problem. My wife's POE was Detroit and her aunt lives near there so she had a fallback plan if her flight to DC got cancelled.

I didn't get much sleep the night she flew here. I was practically biting my nails at DCA waiting for her to come off her connection from Detroit.

It turns out my wife had no problem at the POE. She only had an hour and a half layover between her flights but still made her connection.

People do it both ways. It comes down to what you and your fiancee can live with.

[Thomas-n-Elena 0]

My finance will be arriving in about a week, I would love to go and meet her in Atlanta(POE) but you cant get down to immigration to help. Also you would be sent to a different line. Immigration comes in 2 flavors, US citizens and green card holders and Not. Just my cents. I would love to be able to support her through immigration but as long as she has all the paperwork there should be no problem.

[bora bora 1]

Although I do not have extra money (hey, I'm only a teacher ) I'll be traveling to Brasil to be with my fiance for his interview.

He does not speak English and has never travelled internationally. I don't want him to go through this alone so I will be accompanying him.

It's up to you.

[motu 6]

Most adults can figure out how to get through immigration and customs and through airports without their spouses or spouses to be. So, let her do it herselves, its a good experience. If they run into a problem, they can always find people to help them and not knowing English is not a barier to travel - my 60 plus years old parents did this to several countries (Japan, USA, France, Germany etc.) Have more faith in your fiance And you can use the money you save for Vegas. Good Luck

Edited December 4, 2006 by motu

[Sinergy 3]

My husband had never been out of Romania let alone on a plane. he did it with a plane switch in czech and then landing in JFK then coming to orlando. he did fine, made it thru customs perfectly. the only prob he had was finding his terminal to orlando on delta. he called me and i calmed him down, i looked online, found the terminal for him and he got on the plane just fine. he was asking other ppl in the airport but no one would help him. he wasnt too impressed with JFK but he did it just fine.

i dont condone flying here with your fiance, but you would not be able to help her at all get thru immigrations. that she has to do on her own.

[garya505 2]

My fiance is a very capable woman and I'm sure she would do ok traveling alone, but I think it's important for our relationship to do this together, so even though it's expensive for me, I'm going. I want her to know that I always support her 100%.

[1HappyGuy 45]

I think your fiancee can fly here without assistance. My only suggestion is to try to insure her POE is where you will be waiting for her. In that way, if there is a problem in customs, you are in the same airport terminal. Many people have managed to fly in without a problem so give your fiancee the opportunity to build on her confidence. The money you save can go a long way to providing the two of you with a nice honeymoon someplace in the U.S.

Most airlines have multilingual flight attendents on their international flights to assist her. The customs agents are very familiar with people from non-English speaking countries and it's not like Spanish is not spoken much in America.

[isleta521 5]

I picked up my then fiance and her two boys and we all flew to Rio from Salvador BA. She (we) had her interview which was cancled and rescheduled two days later luckily (due to USCIS and Lawyer screwwups - good thing I went).

We flew back together a few days later. One of the most awsome times that we had together. It was always my dream of bringing her here and she felt so much better that I went even though I knew she could have done it. Cost me an arm and a leg but to us, it was well worth it - something we will always share and have together.

[edsperfect 25]

Although I do not have extra money (hey, I'm only a teacher ) I'll be traveling to Brasil to be with my fiance for his interview.

He does not speak English and has never travelled internationally. I don't want him to go through this alone so I will be accompanying him.

It's up to you.

Depending on the embassy you probably won't be able to be at the interview with him anyway. You will sit outside untilo it is completed.

[isleta521 5]

Although I do not have extra money (hey, I'm only a teacher ) I'll be traveling to Brasil to be with my fiance for his interview.

He does not speak English and has never travelled internationally. I don't want him to go through this alone so I will be accompanying him.

It's up to you.

Depending on the embassy you probably won't be able to be at the interview with him anyway. You will sit outside untilo it is completed.

Actually, In Brasil you can (at least for us). It actually seems like they welcome it and actually asked me more questions than my then fiancee.