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Just wanted to give a brief update on my fiance's expereince POE into Houston, TX.... She arrived at Bush International Airport. Her flight was on schedule from Japan to Houston. She had no issues during the trip. It took her 2 hours 20 minutes to get through customs. No issues, it was just a long wait because of the number of immigrants coming through at the time she arrived....

Not knowing what was going on, after about an hour, I used the airport phone to call immigrations to find out if there were any problems... They informed me that she had arrived, she was in the computer, and she was currently in the waiting area. They could not give me any specifics other then her location...

Anna later told me that they only asked her two questions, (1) Had she ever been in the U.S. before and (2) what date she was planning on getting married? They did not have a Russian speaking person at the office but I was told they had a person available in the airport if needed.

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Just wanted to give a brief update on my fiance's expereince POE into Houston, TX.... She arrived at Bush International Airport. Her flight was on schedule from Japan to Houston. She had no issues during the trip. It took her 2 hours 20 minutes to get through customs. No issues, it was just a long wait because of the number of immigrants coming through at the time she arrived....

Not knowing what was going on, after about an hour, I used the airport phone to call immigrations to find out if there were any problems... They informed me that she had arrived, she was in the computer, and she was currently in the waiting area. They could not give me any specifics other then her location...

Anna later told me that they only asked her two questions, (1) Had she ever been in the U.S. before and (2) what date she was planning on getting married? They did not have a Russian speaking person at the office but I was told they had a person available in the airport if needed.

Your experiences mirror what my wife and stepdaughter encountered entering the USA through Houston POE in early 2004.

They had quite a journey to get here. They took a train from their town in Belarus to Moscow. From there they flew to Frankfurt, Germany for a short 1 1/2 hours layover before flying non-stop to Houston.

"Credibility in immigration policy can be summed up in one sentence: Those who should get in, get in; those who should be kept out, are kept out; and those who should not be here will be required to leave."

"...for the system to be credible, people actually have to be deported at the end of the process."

US Congresswoman Barbara Jordan (D-TX)

Testimony to the House Immigration Subcommittee, February 24, 1995

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They had quite a journey to get here. They took a train from their town in Belarus to Moscow. From there they flew to Frankfurt, Germany for a short 1 1/2 hours layover before flying non-stop to Houston.

I've been on those "train" rides in Russia. Not a comfortable experience at all.

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They had quite a journey to get here. They took a train from their town in Belarus to Moscow. From there they flew to Frankfurt, Germany for a short 1 1/2 hours layover before flying non-stop to Houston.

I've been on those "train" rides in Russia. Not a comfortable experience at all.

You must be joking - trains rule!!!

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They had quite a journey to get here. They took a train from their town in Belarus to Moscow. From there they flew to Frankfurt, Germany for a short 1 1/2 hours layover before flying non-stop to Houston.

I've been on those "train" rides in Russia. Not a comfortable experience at all.

You must be joking - trains rule!!!

I'm a US citizen born in the USA. I've traveled from Belarus to Moscow and to Saint Petersburg by train to visit my mom's relatives in those cities. I always have gone with my Belarusian relatives since my command of the Russian language is poor. My relatives always purchase the tickets for me. I always thought the trains were uncomfortable until my cousin told me about the other "expensive" trains. Expensive? How expensive? When I found out how much I was dumbfounded. These trains are expensive for my Belarusian working class relatives, but quite reasonable for their American cousin (me).

So after suffering the sweltering stuffy heat in the crowded conditions of the peanut gallery and not getting any sleep on the train trip to Moscow, I insisted on buying all the tickets for myself and my 2 cousins on the "expensive" train out of my own pocket. They protested, but after our visit to Moscow I bought "expensive" tickets for all of us to the leg of our trip to Saint Petersburg and after our visit there I bought "expensive" tickets from Saint Petersburg back to Minsk.

What did we get on the "expensive"trains? I bought all 4 berths in a private air conditioned sleeper compartment so the 3 of us had our privacy and plenty of room. It was great!

Usually there are foreigner prices and citizen prices for some things in Russia. To be honest, I think because my Belarusian cousins bought the tickets with my money that we paid citizen prices for the tickets. It was well worth buying the expensive tickets vs. riding in the peanut gallery.

The moral of the story:

Value is getting more bang for your buck..

Cheap is getting what you pay for (and suffering because of it).

"Credibility in immigration policy can be summed up in one sentence: Those who should get in, get in; those who should be kept out, are kept out; and those who should not be here will be required to leave."

"...for the system to be credible, people actually have to be deported at the end of the process."

US Congresswoman Barbara Jordan (D-TX)

Testimony to the House Immigration Subcommittee, February 24, 1995

 
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