kali1229
Difficulty:  | Review Topic: Port of Entry Review
My husband came in at 7:00 pm on Saturday night. There resident line was long.
When he was called, they asked for the embassy papers and his passport. My husband had left his packet in the airplane. While walking up to the agent, he noticed that he didn't have the packet he received at the airport. A stewardess from my husband's flight was walking in the back of the agents' desks and my husband ran towards her. The agent got a little upset at him but once my husband came back, he explained what had happened and was satisfied. My husband was asked when his return to Colombia was to which my husband answered "never" as we don't have a return planned quite yet. The agent looked at him and said "WHAT?!" He called another agent to take a look at my husband's passport and he realized that he had a Permanent Resident Visa. An agent took his passport and asked him to follow him after he had already taken his fingerprints. The agent took him to a room and had him wait for two or three hours. He came back and handed back his passport and my husband was released.
My husband wanted me to note that he felt it was important to have filled out completely the form you get on the airplane before going with the agent at POE. Also, the people that were in the wrong lines (tourists in resident lines, residents in citizen lines) were yelled at. A couple of people went past the yellow line and were severely scolded. Although the agents spoke spanish to each other, they would not speak to anybody else in spanish. They were a little harsh and rude at times but it comes with the territory. Overall, he felt pleased with his experience.
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Port of Entry Member Review #15060
Entry Date: 2011-12-02