Portlandia
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So I went to the New Immigrants queue, but the (rather officious) supervisor guy told me to go to the US Residents / Citizens queue (which was a lot longer). I showed him my envelope, said I was entering on a K1 visa and that I'd been told to go to this queue, and he said no, I should go to the US Citizens queue. "But I'm definitely not a US Citizen and I don't think I'm a Resident yet either, am I?" and he said "No, you're definitely not a Citizen or Resident yet, but you still need to go to that queue". Well, I'm not going to argue with a man in uniform, especially when I'm jetlagged...
Queued for about 30 minutes (a lovely British lady who lived in SF was just behind me in the queue and she chatted to me the whole time we were waiting, I think she could see I was nervous).
At the counter I said "I was told to join this queue, I'm not sure it's the right one though, sorry" and the guy said "Well, no, it's not, but don't worry!". He opened my envelope, went through a few basic questions, asked if I'd been to the US before, asked when we were getting married, got me to do my fingerprints, reminded me that we need to get married within 90 days and then file for AOS, and then said "Welcome to America!"
No harrassment at all.
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Port of Entry Member Review #15579
Entry Date: 2013-11-12