Entered the country yesterday, seemed to easy?

[RoaringMdog 15]

Hi all, 

 

So yesterday i entered the United States through L.A.X on a k1 visa and when it was my turn at customs i just gave her the white sealed package and passport and she just put a stamp on the page above my visa with the current date on it. 

 

Is that all i needed? She didn't give me any information or any paperwork. It just seemed too easy. 

[JFH 12,190]

*~*~*POE question moved from “K-1 fiancé visa process and procedures” to “moving to the US”*~*~*

 

Yep, it’s that simple in many cases. Welcome to your new home! 

 

 

[Letspaintcookies 2,310]

With all the paperwork already done and all that paperwork ahead, nobody expects something to be easy. But yes, in that case it is.

[Loren Y 2,755]

My fiancee and I came thru LAX this past November, and it is that easy. I printed out I94 while waiting for our bags to arrive at the carousel. Welcome to America, now get that I94 printed out, and head to the closest Social Security office and apply for your SS card. Guide here on VJ if you need help, but it is pretty easy. Make that your next step, we applied for my fiancee card 18 hours after landing in LAX when we got to Las Vegas, NV and she was in the system already, card 2 weeks later.

[Vengatore 53]

In my case, they just took it and said : you have 90 days, good luck 😂😂😂

[Gomast 65]

In my case, they took me to some back office, they took my passport and envelope. I had to wait for about an hour. No one explained to me anything. I started to get really concerned. 

Eventually I got called me to another office, and they just handed me the passport and told me “you’re all set”. You need to get married within 90 days. Good luck.  

[DaveAndAnastasia 2,092]

The lines were long when Anastasia came through LAX (took almost two hours from when her plane landed to meeting me), but it was pretty simple for her there too.

[Unlockable 7,314]

I say that when done the right way, immigration is for the most part easy and straight forward.

[TBoneTX 45,303]

Although technically CBP can refuse entry to any K-1 or CR-1 entrant for any reason that the consulate would have used, entry at POE is typically perfunctory.  This is because CBP figures that the entrant has recently been scrutinized by the consulate.

 

The above comes from an immigration attorney whom I consulted back when Mrs. T-B.-to-be was about to enter.

[jeanieCZ 228]

I'm happy to hear it seemed too easy to you! You probably should have told the CBP that you had expected a pat on the back for all the hard work getting your K-1  

[RoaringMdog 15]

28 minutes ago, jeaniecz said:

I'm happy to hear it seemed too easy to you! You probably should have told the CBP that you had expected a pat on the back for all the hard work getting your K-1  

You know, this comes across as pretty rude. Kinda unnecessary. 

 

I was just expecting more questions from the officer that let me through. 

[jeanieCZ 228]

7 minutes ago, RoaringMdog said:

You know, this comes across as pretty rude. Kinda unnecessary. 

 

I was just expecting more questions from the officer that let me through. 

I am not sure what comes across as rude. That wasn't my intention at all. I said I was happy for you. En ik dacht dat je het knipoogje zou begrijpen. Het was iig helemaal niet gemeen bedoeld.

[geowrian 22,337]

33 minutes ago, jeaniecz said:

I am not sure what comes across as rude. That wasn't my intention at all. I said I was happy for you. En ik dacht dat je het knipoogje zou begrijpen. Het was iig helemaal niet gemeen bedoeld.

Reminder that the upper forums are English-only.

[Going through 5,671]

Welcome to the USA!  

 

You'll have a plethora of other steps to go through/stress out over/find more difficult in dealing with once you marry and start to file that AOS paperwork.  

 

13 hours ago, RoaringMdog said:

You know, this comes across as pretty rude. Kinda unnecessary. 

 

FWIW...I don't think @jeaniecz was trying to be rude at all.  Online it can be difficult to decipher one's "tone" of speaking.   I think she was acknowledging the hard work behind applying for the K1/how stressful getting the K1 is in the first place while joking about how relieving it must have been to have ANY part of the immigration process actually turn out to be easy.

 

At least, that's how I read her words.   Anyhow, best of luck.

[jeanieCZ 228]

2 hours ago, Going through said:

Welcome to the USA!  

 

You'll have a plethora of other steps to go through/stress out over/find more difficult in dealing with once you marry and start to file that AOS paperwork.  

 

FWIW...I don't think @jeaniecz was trying to be rude at all.  Online it can be difficult to decipher one's "tone" of speaking.   I think she was acknowledging the hard work behind applying for the K1/how stressful getting the K1 is in the first place while joking about how relieving it must have been to have ANY part of the immigration process actually turn out to be easy.

 

At least, that's how I read her words.   Anyhow, best of luck.

Thank you. Exactly what I meant! 

 

I don't know why I'd be making fun of someone who just went through the first stage of K-1 while I'm in the K-1 myself so I know what it's like and I have no reason to not wish well to others.