Travelling to the US.........

[wodge2003 0]

I'm quite sure this has been asked before and I have searched the forum without sucess.................

I have a IR1 visa which I will be using on August 27th when we travel to JFK. I just wanted to be sure about the I94 form which i will be handed on the plane. It's my understanding that I don't have to fill in that form just the Customs declaration. Could someone let me know....I'd be very grateful ! Thank You !

BY the way good luck to all on their journey !!!!

[elmcitymaven 9,712]

Hi wodge -- fellow 19 June visa success story! Yup, you don't need an I-94 with an IR1/CR1, just the customs form which you both fill out as a family.

Best wishes for a safe journey home!

[essjay 0]

This may sound like an equally dumb question, but do UKC and USC go through the same line for first time entry? CO at my interview told me I had to go through the visitors line before being taken off for processing..... Too many things going on in my head today....

[elmcitymaven 9,712]

This may sound like an equally dumb question, but do UKC and USC go through the same line for first time entry? CO at my interview told me I had to go through the visitors line before being taken off for processing..... Too many things going on in my head today....

I've heard several different ways -- both through visitors, both through USC line, and USC through USC line/UKC through visitors line. I think it may depend on which POE you have.

[essjay 0]

I'll tell you what they really really don't like...... the UKC going through USC line

Very slapped wrist for that one.....

[John & Annie 0]

I'll tell you what they really really don't like...... the UKC going through USC line

Very slapped wrist for that one.....

I traveled with Annie and she accompanied me in the USC line with no problems

[essjay 0]

I'll tell you what they really really don't like...... the UKC going through USC line

Very slapped wrist for that one.....

I traveled with Annie and she accompanied me in the USC line with no problems

Then I REALLY must be going through the wrong airports....

[Lansbury 19]

I'll tell you what they really really don't like...... the UKC going through USC line

Very slapped wrist for that one.....

I went through the USC line at Portland with my wife when we came in using my visa.

At SFO and LAX I have also been allowed to use the USC line when my wife and I were just visiting. In fact the first time we went through SFO she went to the USC line and I went to the unwashed line. I was standing waiting when a rather large lady wearing immigration uniform and a gun grabbed me by the collar and loudly said "You're in the wrong god dam line" and marched me to were my wife was at a desk being processed.

[John & Annie 0]

I'll tell you what they really really don't like...... the UKC going through USC line

Very slapped wrist for that one.....

I went through the USC line at Portland with my wife when we came in using my visa.

At SFO and LAX I have also been allowed to use the USC line when my wife and I were just visiting. In fact the first time we went through SFO she went to the USC line and I went to the unwashed line. I was standing waiting when a rather large lady wearing immigration uniform and a gun grabbed me by the collar and loudly said "You're in the wrong god dam line" and marched me to were my wife was at a desk being processed.

LOL, nothing like the love of an immigration officer.

[Dr_LHA 3]

Yes I've also been told off for going in a separate line to my wife. At the time I was travelling on H-1B so I naturally thought the CBP officer wouldn't want me in the US Citizen line. Boy did that make them mad!

Of course, with a Green Card you can just go in the US Citizen line every time.

[essjay 0]

OK, so now I feel supremely unloved by US immigration

Guess I got unlucky first time I tried it...

[kins 0]

When I arrived at Boston with my IR1 visa and my three USC kids (all under 7) I was told by the immigration officer that we all had to go through the non-USC line together.

When my husband had asked about it a few weeks earlier at the same airport he'd been told we should all go through the USC line together.

I think it's just how they feel on the day...