Kiwinyc
Difficulty:  | Review Topic: Port of Entry Review
My USC fiancé and myself and my two children arrived in Houston from London at 4pm. When we got to immigration we asked which line to go to and were directed to the USC line, which was long but moves a lot faster than the Alien line. When we got to the immigration officer my fiancé handed over all our passports and explained that he was the USC and that we were coming in on K1 visa's with him. The Officer checked his passport and cleared him first, returning his passport and then asked for the sealed envelopes containing our paperwork which i handed over. He then checked our passports. I had finger prints and photo taken as usual upon entry and he enquired how long it had taken the K1 to be processed and I told him it took 10 mths from the Petition being submitted to gettng the Visa's in hand. He seemed to think that the K1 was a faster process than coming in as a spouse, and though that our time was about average, with 6 mths being quick and 12 mths being too long.
He then put our passports to one side along with the envelops and asked us to wait behind the end of the booth where we would be collected and taken to secondary processing. Another officer then came out after a minute and collected our paperwork and envelopes along with another person at a different booth and asked us all to follow him to a room at the end of the hall where we were seated again and paperwork given to another person behind a counter. My fiancé accompanied us and was allowed to sit and wait in the room with us, which was nearly empty. After 5-10mins I was called up to the counter to speak to the Asian lady processing my application. The only question she asked me was when we were planning on getting married and I told her our target date and she did some more typing into her PC, but no other questions were asked. Then she stamped our visas, initialed them and handed them back with a reminder that we have to get married in three months, and that we were good to go and that was it.
We had given ourselves a 3 hr connection time just in case it was crowded or slow and complicated but we were through by 5.15p after landing at 4pm so we were able to have a relaxed dinner before catching our 7pm connection to our final destination of Austin.
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Port of Entry Member Review #15533
Entry Date: 2013-10-12