Port of Entry

[ZDante 0]

My mom just got approved for her IR-5 visa at the London embassy!!!!

Some quick questions... She is having her passport couried to her apartment via DX... Do they send the original documents back to her in the same package? The gentlemen did not really explain what the next step is.. she got her chest xray back and he said hold on to this. She plans to come over the USA on June 8th via Chicago O'Hare... What can she expect to do at Customs coming into the country and what does she need to bring with her for documentation apart from her Passport with visa? Thank you very much!!!

[Al422 221]

Definitely the sealed envelope (do not open it whatever you do), and sometimes they ask for the xray CD. When she stops at the regular passport counter and shows an immigrant visa, they will take her aside for secondary processing, which consists of biometrics (electronic fingerprinting), taking her picture and collecting the envelope (and maybe the CD).

No big hassle, just a little extra time to get that all done, especially if there is a line at that one single counter.

[Nich-Nick 3,354]

My mom just got approved for her IR-5 visa at the London embassy!!!!

Some quick questions... She is having her passport couried to her apartment via DX... Do they send the original documents back to her in the same package? The gentlemen did not really explain what the next step is.. she got her chest xray back and he said hold on to this. She plans to come over the USA on June 8th via Chicago O'Hare... What can she expect to do at Customs coming into the country and what does she need to bring with her for documentation apart from her Passport with visa? Thank you very much!!!

Her entire file from petition, NVC, medical exam will be in a sealed brown (sometimes white) envelope marked "Do Not Open". The passport will be separate, all in an outer DX wrapping...clear plastic is what it used to be. . The brown envelope will be turned over at O'Hare. Nobody will look at the x-ray. It's her souvenir...not a part of any further immigration needs.

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