Has Anyone Entered US With Opened Envelope?

[Dean_De 61]

So alas, my fiancée is finally traveling to the US to be with me. In old posts, travelers needed to have a sealed package of papers that were provided to them by the Consular interviewing officer, to be handed to the immigration official on entry to the US. My fiancée was not given any direction to do so, but was simply handed back most of the papers she provided during the interview. I know much of the processing is now automated, so does anyone know if the traveler is still required to hand a sealed packet of papers to the immigration officer on entry to the US? Anyone who has traveled on a K1 visa in the last few months?

Many thanks!

Max

OP,

Your fiance most probably didn't verbally get any direction from the embassy itself but if I remember it right, there is an instruction placed outside the sealed envelop. You may not also get first hand experience in as much as you may hope to get just simply because the members here are very much cautious and go by the rule as much as possible, especially when it comes to that sealed envelope.

While, wear and tear is not uncommon, people as much as they can here doesn't like to risk getting in trouble with the immigration upon entry in the US. My answer may not really give you the exact answer and the decision is your to do whatever your gutt feeling tells you to do. I must say that, why would anybody go through the risk of getting into problems at POE when they still have time to solve a problem ( assuming that there still still enough time ) or call the embassy on what to do if there isn't enough time to send the packet back to the embassy.

Each experience is different, not all outcome of every situation are the same. Goodluck to whatever decision you do and to your visa journey!

[Darnell 8,478]

So alas, my fiancée is finally traveling to the US to be with me. In old posts, travelers needed to have a sealed package of papers that were provided to them by the Consular interviewing officer, to be handed to the immigration official on entry to the US. My fiancée was not given any direction to do so, but was simply handed back most of the papers she provided during the interview. I know much of the processing is now automated, so does anyone know if the traveler is still required to hand a sealed packet of papers to the immigration officer on entry to the US? Anyone who has traveled on a K1 visa in the last few months?

Many thanks!

Max

I ask that you write of:

passport retrieval and mechanism used .

verbose written description of visa stamp inside passport.

Otherwise, without a visa packet actually sent out by 2go,

your original missive makes no sense - The Venn Diagram describing your written situation in not plausible.

[Hank_ 9,174]

So alas, my fiancée is finally traveling to the US to be with me. In old posts, travelers needed to have a sealed package of papers that were provided to them by the Consular interviewing officer, to be handed to the immigration official on entry to the US. My fiancée was not given any direction to do so, but was simply handed back most of the papers she provided during the interview. I know much of the processing is now automated, so does anyone know if the traveler is still required to hand a sealed packet of papers to the immigration officer on entry to the US? Anyone who has traveled on a K1 visa in the last few months?

Many thanks!

Max

Those papers given back during the interview are not what will be turned in at POE.

When your fiancee receives her visa, it will be a large plastic bag, also in that plastic bag will be a large envelope marked DO NOT OPEN, that is what is turned it at POE... keep that envelope protected! Keep it in your carry-on bag, and protect it!

[Hank_ 9,174]

Has anyone entered the US with an accidentally opened visa package? Firsthand knowledge, only, not "I heard of someone..."

Many thanks!

Max

First hand knowledge only? So you only want someone who actually had torn/opened their DO NOT OPEN envelope and tried to turn it in at POE?

My wife was very careful with that DO NOT OPEN envelope, I was very careful with it as well because if it gets torn you must return it to the embassy to be re-sealed.

[Jon and Krissy 452]

It appears the OP has chosen to vanish, rather than bothering to actually explain the situation.

[Kiwinyc 62]

My guess is that the answer is 'no one' because we are all told very clearly not to open it and that if it is it must be re-sealed by the embassy before entry is attempted. And it says so on the envelope itself.

Thus no one would take the risk and attempt it.