Arrived in the U.S.
Apr 30th 2006, 7:39 pm
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Arrived in the U.S.
Hello Everyone,
just a note to say thank you to everyone for the advice over recent
months.
My wife and I arrived in the United States a couple of days ago. We are
now staying with my wifes parents.
We came in through San Francisco on a direct flight from London, the
whole experience of immigration itself was very informal. At
inspection I approached one of the border guards and was directed to go
the the back of the air crew line where there was a line for new
immigrants, I would have been alone except my wife decided not to go
through the US citizen lines but stay with me. After a few minutes one
guard came out and inked my right index finger and took my finger print
whilst another switched on the computer. I handed the second guard my
brown envelope and x-rays which he promptly handed back to me, and
opened the brown envelope. It was just full of our original
application papers. The biggest struggle was that London had stapled
every piece of paper several times and the poor guard had to wrestle
with every page to put it in order. Whilst he did this he asked general
questions, who was my sponsor, how long we had been married, where the
terms of my visa clear, etc.
After that he checked my passport and stamped the visa page explaining
it was good for a year or until my residence card comes through the
mail.
They were all extremely pleasant and friendly and the whole process was
over in about thirty minutes.
Hope this may clear things for anyone on their way over.
William
just a note to say thank you to everyone for the advice over recent
months.
My wife and I arrived in the United States a couple of days ago. We are
now staying with my wifes parents.
We came in through San Francisco on a direct flight from London, the
whole experience of immigration itself was very informal. At
inspection I approached one of the border guards and was directed to go
the the back of the air crew line where there was a line for new
immigrants, I would have been alone except my wife decided not to go
through the US citizen lines but stay with me. After a few minutes one
guard came out and inked my right index finger and took my finger print
whilst another switched on the computer. I handed the second guard my
brown envelope and x-rays which he promptly handed back to me, and
opened the brown envelope. It was just full of our original
application papers. The biggest struggle was that London had stapled
every piece of paper several times and the poor guard had to wrestle
with every page to put it in order. Whilst he did this he asked general
questions, who was my sponsor, how long we had been married, where the
terms of my visa clear, etc.
After that he checked my passport and stamped the visa page explaining
it was good for a year or until my residence card comes through the
mail.
They were all extremely pleasant and friendly and the whole process was
over in about thirty minutes.
Hope this may clear things for anyone on their way over.
William
Apr 30th 2006, 8:45 pm
#2
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Joined: Apr 2001
Posts: 46,392
Re: Arrived in the U.S.
Congratulations. Hope the US begins to feel like home for you soon.
Rete
Rete
Originally Posted by Bretsuki
Hello Everyone,
just a note to say thank you to everyone for the advice over recent
months.
My wife and I arrived in the United States a couple of days ago. We are
now staying with my wifes parents.
We came in through San Francisco on a direct flight from London, the
whole experience of immigration itself was very informal. At
inspection I approached one of the border guards and was directed to go
the the back of the air crew line where there was a line for new
immigrants, I would have been alone except my wife decided not to go
through the US citizen lines but stay with me. After a few minutes one
guard came out and inked my right index finger and took my finger print
whilst another switched on the computer. I handed the second guard my
brown envelope and x-rays which he promptly handed back to me, and
opened the brown envelope. It was just full of our original
application papers. The biggest struggle was that London had stapled
every piece of paper several times and the poor guard had to wrestle
with every page to put it in order. Whilst he did this he asked general
questions, who was my sponsor, how long we had been married, where the
terms of my visa clear, etc.
After that he checked my passport and stamped the visa page explaining
it was good for a year or until my residence card comes through the
mail.
They were all extremely pleasant and friendly and the whole process was
over in about thirty minutes.
Hope this may clear things for anyone on their way over.
William
just a note to say thank you to everyone for the advice over recent
months.
My wife and I arrived in the United States a couple of days ago. We are
now staying with my wifes parents.
We came in through San Francisco on a direct flight from London, the
whole experience of immigration itself was very informal. At
inspection I approached one of the border guards and was directed to go
the the back of the air crew line where there was a line for new
immigrants, I would have been alone except my wife decided not to go
through the US citizen lines but stay with me. After a few minutes one
guard came out and inked my right index finger and took my finger print
whilst another switched on the computer. I handed the second guard my
brown envelope and x-rays which he promptly handed back to me, and
opened the brown envelope. It was just full of our original
application papers. The biggest struggle was that London had stapled
every piece of paper several times and the poor guard had to wrestle
with every page to put it in order. Whilst he did this he asked general
questions, who was my sponsor, how long we had been married, where the
terms of my visa clear, etc.
After that he checked my passport and stamped the visa page explaining
it was good for a year or until my residence card comes through the
mail.
They were all extremely pleasant and friendly and the whole process was
over in about thirty minutes.
Hope this may clear things for anyone on their way over.
William
