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Border agent did not take immigrant packet at point of entry

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My cousin recently entered the US via JFK airport after her Diversity Visa processing was done.

She was given her visa and the immigrant packet by the embassy.

 

She is a French speaker, and was most likely a bit "lost" at the point of entry, she was carrying her immigrant packed as we instructed her, but it seems like the agent did not ask for it, so she got out of processing with her immigrant packet and still has it with her to this day. She did not open it yet.

 

So its been 3 months now and she still hasn't received her green card by the mail. 

Is it because USCIS does not have her immigrant packet ? How can she give it to them now ?

Any help will be appreciated. 

 

 

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Call CBP "Deferred Inspection" at JFK or a nearer airport, and ask the protocol.

06-04-2007 = TSC stamps postal return-receipt for I-129f.

06-11-2007 = NOA1 date (unknown to me).

07-20-2007 = Phoned Immigration Officer; got WAC#; where's NOA1?

09-25-2007 = Touch (first-ever).

09-28-2007 = NOA1, 23 days after their 45-day promise to send it (grrrr).

10-20 & 11-14-2007 = Phoned ImmOffs; "still pending."

12-11-2007 = 180 days; file is "between workstations, may be early Jan."; touches 12/11 & 12/12.

12-18-2007 = Call; file is with Division 9 ofcr. (bckgrnd check); e-prompt to shake it; touch.

12-19-2007 = NOA2 by e-mail & web, dated 12-18-07 (187 days; 201 per VJ); in mail 12/24/07.

01-09-2008 = File from USCIS to NVC, 1-4-08; NVC creates file, 1/15/08; to consulate 1/16/08.

01-23-2008 = Consulate gets file; outdated Packet 4 mailed to fiancee 1/27/08; rec'd 3/3/08.

04-29-2008 = Fiancee's 4-min. consular interview, 8:30 a.m.; much evidence brought but not allowed to be presented (consul: "More proof! Second interview! Bring your fiance!").

05-05-2008 = Infuriating $12 call to non-English-speaking consulate appointment-setter.

05-06-2008 = Better $12 call to English-speaker; "joint" interview date 6/30/08 (my selection).

06-30-2008 = Stokes Interrogations w/Ecuadorian (not USC); "wait 2 weeks; we'll mail her."

07-2008 = Daily calls to DOS: "currently processing"; 8/05 = Phoned consulate, got Section Chief; wrote him.

08-07-08 = E-mail from consulate, promising to issue visa "as soon as we get her passport" (on 8/12, per DHL).

08-27-08 = Phoned consulate (they "couldn't find" our file); visa DHL'd 8/28; in hand 9/1; through POE on 10/9 with NO hassles(!).

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If you were admitted incorrectly to the United States, you should visit a local Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Deferred Inspection Site or Port of Entry (POE) that has a Deferred Inspection office to have his or her admission corrected. See list of Deferred Inspection Site locations and list of Port of Entry locations.

 

https://help.cbp.gov/s/article/Article-1683?language=en_US

 

 

There you go!

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