Email order bride - POE

[Boiler 45,686]

How did they collect your envelope, or have things changed.

[cdneh 3,112]

How did they collect your envelope, or have things changed.

I went through the line with the sign hanging over it, "new Immigrants", and I was the only one in it. The person there took the envelope, told me to be sure to make the 90 day window to get married, did fingerprint, and sent me on my way. Might have taken 5 minutes.

If things have changed, they have done in the last month, as one of my friends on a K1 just arrived. No secondary.

Edited July 4, 2014 by cdneh

[JohnR! 5,495]

I went through the line with the sign hanging over it, "new Immigrants", and I was the only one in it. The person there took the envelope, told me to be sure to make the 90 day window to get married, did fingerprint, and sent me on my way. Might have taken 5 minutes.

If things have changed, they have done in the last month, as one of my friends on a K1 just arrived. No secondary.

The 'new immigrants' line is the line to secondary inspection. In some airports it helps expedite the processing by removing any new immigrants from the regular visitor lines.

[cdneh 3,112]

The 'new immigrants' line is the line to secondary inspection. In some airports it helps expedite the processing by removing any new immigrants from the regular visitor lines.

It isn't the line to anything. After 5 minutes with them, I was on my way. There was no secondary.

[JohnR! 5,495]

It isn't the line to anything. After 5 minutes with them, I was on my way. There was no secondary.

Ok.

[*Snowdrop* 604]

I think a lot depends on which airport you arrive at and how many other flights have landed at the same time and how many other new immigrants etc arrive at the same time as you.

When I arrived there was a whole room full of people being processed ahead of me. It took two hours for me to get to the front of the queue.

[Boiler 45,686]

Sounds like you bypassed primary and they have a dedicated secondary desk.

[cdneh 3,112]

I went through primary. The hall was full of people, after 3 flights landed from overseas. I was pleased to see the new immigrants line was open for that reason. On our Kiwi thread in that forum, there was a post to advise anyone heading that way to look for it. I went through it as described above, picked up my bags and left. Not everyone has to go through secondary inspection. I saw people being sent to secondary, they were being directed to a line to my left.

[JohnR! 5,495]

I went through primary. The hall was full of people, after 3 flights landed from overseas. I was pleased to see the new immigrants line was open for that reason. On our Kiwi thread in that forum, there was a post to advise anyone heading that way to look for it. I went through it as described above, picked up my bags and left. Not everyone has to go through secondary inspection. I saw people being sent to secondary, they were being directed to a line to my left.

Secondary is not a place, a line or a room, necessarily. It is a group of separate agents that take care of special entries, whose purpose is to keep the other lines moving. All immigrants go through secondary inspection. The line you went through took you to a secondary inspection agent who collected your K-1 pakage and allowed you into the country. In most POEs - if not all - secondary inspection also takes place in a separate room because many who go into that room are taken directly to the removal and deporation hall, to wait their return flight back home.

[sara..... 371]

My brother in law landed in portland oregon with us four years ago...........it took about three hours to get thru because the person in charge of it didn't have the ability to stamp the passport had to wait for a phone call for each and every immigrant that he tried to process not everyone was muslim in there waiting for the processing to finish

[Girl from Celebes 588]

I came on a K1, and was not sent to secondary. I know 3 other people from NZ who didn't either. So not all K1's are subject to it.

I did not go to separate too or secondary inspection either. My husband (then-fiancé) was with me and we went to USC- Alien Resident line. Only took less than 10 minutes and most of times the officer talked to my husband and only asked me one question, "have you bring the envelope with you?". That's all. My PoE was at Detroit International Airport.

Edited July 4, 2014 by Girl from Celebes

[Jon York 156]

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Edited July 4, 2014 by Jon York

[Sekhvaruli 74]

There is nothing to worry about when passing the immigration control. The questions they can ask are about the same as during K-1 visa interview, but not as many. When I was entering the US with K-1 visa for the first time, I also spent a while, waiting in a short line to speak with the immigration officer. He checked all the papers in the yellow package from the embassy and even looked at the pictures that were there. Then he gave the warning, that, if I don't marry my petitioner within 90 days I will have to lave the country and wished me well. Again, nothing to worry about.

[Kathryn41 3,205]

A number of posts either violating the Terms of Service (personal attacks) or derailing the thread from the posted question have been removed.

Please confine your posts to the question actually asked rather than derail this thread with a discussion more appropriately addressed in the Off Topic forum.

[Girl from Celebes 588]

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Hi, congrats for I-129F approval. I read some of your posts a while ago. Good luck for the next steps.