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Chez&Rick   11

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Hi!

Good day!

We already received our visa packet with our USCIS Immigration Fee instruction. I am just wondering what is the consequences if we are not going to pay it yet. Can I not travel to US?

It says in the instruction page that I will just not receive my Green Card until I have paid the USCIS Immigrant Fee.

Can we wait until I get there in the US before we pay for it? Will I be held in my Port of Entry by not paying it?

Because we are planning to pay for it when I get there in the US.

Thank you for your help

God bless!

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Genesis 2:22-24
Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. The man said, "This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called 'woman, ' for she was taken out of man." For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.

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dwheels76   5,468

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Hi!

Good day!

We already received our visa packet with our USCIS Immigration Fee instruction. I am just wondering what is the consequences if we are not going to pay it yet. Can I not travel to US?

It says in the instruction page that I will just not receive my Green Card until I have paid the USCIS Immigrant Fee.

Can we wait until I get there in the US before we pay for it? Will I be held in my Port of Entry by not paying it?

Because we are planning to pay for it when I get there in the US.

Thank you for your help

God bless!

You have a year to pay the fee. No you will not be held at POE.

Just know you will not receive green card until you pay fee.

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Is perfectly fine to come through a POE without paying that fee in advance.

The passport gets a stamp at the POE, that endorses the visa to be used as a temporary I-551 document, a temporary green card, for a year.

It's also perfectly fine to pay the fee after the POE date. IMO, it's easier, as the two humans are there shoulder to shoulder in front of a computer.

HINT: there's some papers attached to the OUTSIDE of the 'do not open' envelope. One of them is the 'Immigrant Data Summary' Page. COPY THIS PAGE, scan it, email it to yerself before going through the POE. The POE takes this page, and it's got all the info you need, to sucessfully file for a greencard and pay for it, at the ELIS website.

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dirk_diggler   107

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Is perfectly fine to come through a POE without paying that fee in advance.

The passport gets a stamp at the POE, that endorses the visa to be used as a temporary I-551 document, a temporary green card, for a year.

It's also perfectly fine to pay the fee after the POE date. IMO, it's easier, as the two humans are there shoulder to shoulder in front of a computer.

HINT: there's some papers attached to the OUTSIDE of the 'do not open' envelope. One of them is the 'Immigrant Data Summary' Page. COPY THIS PAGE, scan it, email it to yerself before going through the POE. The POE takes this page, and it's got all the info you need, to sucessfully file for a greencard and pay for it, at the ELIS website.

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Chez&Rick   11

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Is perfectly fine to come through a POE without paying that fee in advance.

The passport gets a stamp at the POE, that endorses the visa to be used as a temporary I-551 document, a temporary green card, for a year.

It's also perfectly fine to pay the fee after the POE date. IMO, it's easier, as the two humans are there shoulder to shoulder in front of a computer.

HINT: there's some papers attached to the OUTSIDE of the 'do not open' envelope. One of them is the 'Immigrant Data Summary' Page. COPY THIS PAGE, scan it, email it to yerself before going through the POE. The POE takes this page, and it's got all the info you need, to sucessfully file for a greencard and pay for it, at the ELIS website.

Wow, thank you! I did photocopy my Immigrant Data Summary Page. Thank you for the advice. :)

God bless!

Met in person : 2009-02-24
Second visit : 2010-03-12
Married : 2012-07-17
I-130 Sent : 2013-01-23
I-130 NOA1 : 2013-01-28
NOA2 : 2013-05-16

NVC Received : 2013-06-10
Pay AOS Bill : 2013-06-25
Return I 864: 2013-06-26
Return DS 3032: 2013-07-01



Genesis 2:22-24
Then the LORD God made a woman from the rib he had taken out of the man, and he brought her to the man. The man said, "This is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called 'woman, ' for she was taken out of man." For this reason a man will leave his father and mother and be united to his wife, and they will become one flesh.

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