POE Cincinnati June 3rd, 2007

[MaydayDas 1]

My POE Cincinnati experience

After a pleasant 9.30 hours flight Frankfurt-Cincinnati with Delta Airlines and 2 seats + window only for me I arrived in to the small airport Cincinnati.

I had my MBE in to my hands but I was directed to the Non US citizen line, and "forced" by a lady (she was in charge to see if everybody has the I-94 and Custom declaration forms) to take an I-94 even if I explained her that I do not need one.

Once I got to the Officer he said with a smile on his face "aaaaaah, you're coming to live here" and he put my I-94 in the garbage . He took my passport, custom declaration form and the MBE and he asked me to go and collect my baggage and come back. I went and waited for my bags, after 5 minutes I was back. Meanwhile my papers were processed in the Immigration Office and an Officer called me inside he put me to sign 2 times and he put my fingerprint next to my signatures. He asked me to go and wait outside, in 2 minutes he came and called me aside to talk to me: he explained me about what power my passport has for a year (it is replacing the GC), about removing the conditions 90 days before the second anniversary of my stamp on my passport, he gave me advices about what to do if my GC doesn't arrive in 6 months, about getting a job right away I get my SSN...well, he was very nice and at the end he said "Welcome to United States!"

I went to the Customs, they scanned my bags, I gave back my bags to Delta (they were waiting after the Custom area) and next to my connection flight.

The whole process was very fast, everybody was impressive nice!

And not to forget, if you have the visa on the maiden name and the plane ticket on the married name, do not forget to have with you the marriage certificate

[Mags 112]

Quite a few of us VJers have come through Cincy. It always seems to be a good POE; everyone has such nice things to say about it (including me!).