No sealed packet after interview? El Salvador

[JohnL 4]

My brother in law had his interview and was approved to come to the US.  He picked up his passport  at the courier service and was told there is no "sealed " packet to hand to Customs and Border Patrol upon entering the US.  Courier said it was done electronically?   Anybody ever heard of this?  Embassy website  says there is a sealed packet.

[SusieQQQ 11,586]

Yes electronic packet is a thing, they’ve been rolling it out for a while. Quite possible embassy website isn’t updated, or that they aren’t doing it for all their cases yet.

Edited October 2, 2019 by SusieQQQ

[Just Paul 4,595]

4 hours ago, JohnL said:

My brother in law had his interview and was approved to come to the US.  He picked up his passport  at the courier service and was told there is no "sealed " packet to hand to Customs and Border Patrol upon entering the US.  Courier said it was done electronically?   Anybody ever heard of this?  Embassy website  says there is a sealed packet.

If the visa has the annotation CCD then the packet is "electronic"

[payxibka 10,045]

7 hours ago, JohnL said:

My brother in law had his interview and was approved to come to the US.  He picked up his passport  at the courier service and was told there is no "sealed " packet to hand to Customs and Border Patrol upon entering the US.  Courier said it was done electronically?   Anybody ever heard of this?  Embassy website  says there is a sealed packet.

This is the standard for about a year now