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Difficulty: | Review Topic: Port of Entry Review
At SFO, I went to the "New Immigrants" line thinking "Great! I'm not going to wait in the long Visitors line!!". There was only one other new immigrant with me. Problem is there was no officer for us, so after a while and feeling the eyes of all the Visitors looking at us, I switched back to the Visitors line!! For sure I was the last one in line and the whole plane was before me... I waited about 1.5 hour, it felt like forever after a 15 hours trip. I eventually got to a booth with a nice lady immigration officer. I handed her my passport with visa, and my sealed envelope from the embassy. She asked me few quick questions while opening my envelope, "where have you met your fiancé?, when was it?". She stamped my visa, stapled the I-94 card on my passport, stamped it, stamped the file that was in the envelope, and told me I have 90 days to get married or I will be Out of status. That was all! I asked if I could go directly pick up my baggage, she replied yes. So no visit in their secondary inspection offices. All in all, the waiting in line took forever but then it was pretty quick!
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