nylonmac
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The flight was delayed so I had a bit of a headache, what felt like the stat of a fever and was super tired so how the waiting felt may be skewed longer than it really was, but this is what happened:
Terminal 4's immigration hall was really, really quiet. I walked through and saw an officer immediately. he saw my brown envelope, tore it open and went through the documents, he asked me how I met my fiancée and then asked what work I'd like to get into, he said I've come to the right place for IT and he was a little sad that he didn't know enough about 'these things' pointing to his computer.
He then asked me to do the fingerprint scans and the photo, then put my documents into a blue folder and asked me to turn left, walk along the way and turn left again into an office. The woman in the office checked my documents again and asked me to walk to zone 2. Which I did, and then found nobody on the desk for zone 2. I sat for what felt like 10 minutes, and then asked one of the others in my area what they did with their documents, the person said he took it up to zone 3's desk, I took it up and the officer was a little confused, and then another officer overheard who was sitting at a desk further away said he'll do it.
He came over and took the documents and then started looking through it. It felt like 45 minutes had passed but it was probably only 5 minutes when he called me over. He passed me my passport with it's i94 and the customs form and he told me I'm free to go. You could tell he had a long day, he was interested in getting it over and done with. I wasn't sure what to write whether I'm a visitor or living here because well, I'm not going back to the UK and have my possessions, and he just asked 'do you have $10,000 on you and are you caryring anything you will be selling?' to which I said I don't and he told me just to get my bags and not to worry about entering anything.
I then went through the customs official. I had a suitcase and a large sports kit bag and the officer asked me where I was travelling from, I said the UK and he said, 'great, you're ok to leave'.
All in all, the first officer was great, I wasn't made to feel awful or asked inappropriate questions and no silly remarks were made about me flying in with Kuwait Airways - who have really nice food on board but non-existent entertainment for 'western' tastes...
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Port of Entry Member Review #14919
Entry Date: 2011-05-04