so how did you get in?
Mar 15th 2007, 10:14 am
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Re: so how did you get in?
Probably irrelavent to this discussion, but my alien husband arrived in the USA on a fiance visa which I petitioned for him.
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Mar 15th 2007, 10:36 am
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Re: so how did you get in?
[QUOTE=Deedee13;4522918]
I have always found Washington to be OK.
A PR can go through the USC's line, actually should.
Last time I came through Chicago and was slightly peeved to see the non USC line moving quicker, 5 minutes wait either way.
Just need to be lucky.
Plane!!!
Actually marriage and a lot of insanity pills.
Is there any airport that anyone can recommend that has a quicker way in - christ this is coming out gobbly gook. I have used atlanta, philly, pitsburg, detroit, and cincinatti and they all take so long when u get off the plane and clearing customs. Is there a magic airport out there that goes quicker than atlanta, last time i was queueing for three hours to just get told have a nice time, stamped and getting my luggage, missed my connecting flight. Or a better time of day to arrive. It seems all the international flights all land at the same time.
and as a PR do u go thru a different queue. I seem to always be herded with the cattle ?
Actually marriage and a lot of insanity pills.
Is there any airport that anyone can recommend that has a quicker way in - christ this is coming out gobbly gook. I have used atlanta, philly, pitsburg, detroit, and cincinatti and they all take so long when u get off the plane and clearing customs. Is there a magic airport out there that goes quicker than atlanta, last time i was queueing for three hours to just get told have a nice time, stamped and getting my luggage, missed my connecting flight. Or a better time of day to arrive. It seems all the international flights all land at the same time.
and as a PR do u go thru a different queue. I seem to always be herded with the cattle ?
A PR can go through the USC's line, actually should.
Last time I came through Chicago and was slightly peeved to see the non USC line moving quicker, 5 minutes wait either way.
Just need to be lucky.
Mar 15th 2007, 10:44 am
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Re: so how did you get in?
Mar 16th 2007, 8:35 am
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Re: so how did you get in?
[QUOTE=Deedee13;4522918]
Phoenix - the only international flights are from Mexico and London. I waited only a few minutes last time I arrived there. The trick is to sit near the door of the plane, carry virtually no carryon luggage (most Americans find this part impossible) and then leg it from the plane to the immigration desks when you're allowed out...
As for the original question - came on H1-B to work at a university in Arizona. Now I'm contemplating applying for a green card
Is there any airport that anyone can recommend that has a quicker way in - christ this is coming out gobbly gook. I have used atlanta, philly, pitsburg, detroit, and cincinatti and they all take so long when u get off the plane and clearing customs. Is there a magic airport out there that goes quicker than atlanta, last time i was queueing for three hours to just get told have a nice time, stamped and getting my luggage, missed my connecting flight. Or a better time of day to arrive. It seems all the international flights all land at the same time.
As for the original question - came on H1-B to work at a university in Arizona. Now I'm contemplating applying for a green card
Apr 2nd 2007, 9:02 pm
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Re: so how did you get in?
My hubby, kids and I are right at the beginning of looking for the best route in, but are very interested to find out about Massachussets as a place to live.
If you've got the time (and the inclination), would love to hear your story and what it's like living there...
S
Apr 3rd 2007, 1:08 am
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Re: so how did you get in?
Hi Krizzy - don't know if I'm doing the posting thing the right way round, but noticed that you've settled in Mass. and thought I'd drop you a line.
My hubby, kids and I are right at the beginning of looking for the best route in, but are very interested to find out about Massachussets as a place to live.
If you've got the time (and the inclination), would love to hear your story and what it's like living there...
S
My hubby, kids and I are right at the beginning of looking for the best route in, but are very interested to find out about Massachussets as a place to live.
If you've got the time (and the inclination), would love to hear your story and what it's like living there...
S
Apr 3rd 2007, 4:38 am
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Re: so how did you get in?
My hubby, kids and I are right at the beginning of looking for the best route in, but are very interested to find out about Massachussets as a place to live.
If you've got the time (and the inclination), would love to hear your story and what it's like living there...
S
Apr 3rd 2007, 8:32 am
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Re: so how did you get in?
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Apr 4th 2007, 10:46 am
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Re: so how did you get in?
[QUOTE=Deedee13;4522918]
DeeDee: A really nice time and place to arrive is with the British Airways BA185 flight from LHR to Newark, NJ.
It departs the UK at 08.55am and gets into Newark at approx 11.35am ET. I do voluntary work there and I can tell you that terminal B is very quiet at that time of the day for international arrivals....it's almost always the first plane to arrive at this terminal from Europe during the late morning and therefore it's really quick to get through immigration, baggage retrieval and customs.
Very rarely the BA185 may have departed late from Heathrow and the Dutch KLM flight in that case may arrive a few minutes beforehand.
Plane!!!
Actually marriage and a lot of insanity pills.
Is there any airport that anyone can recommend that has a quicker way in - christ this is coming out gobbly gook. I have used atlanta, philly, pitsburg, detroit, and cincinatti and they all take so long when u get off the plane and clearing customs. Is there a magic airport out there that goes quicker than atlanta, last time i was queueing for three hours to just get told have a nice time, stamped and getting my luggage, missed my connecting flight. Or a better time of day to arrive. It seems all the international flights all land at the same time.
and as a PR do u go thru a different queue. I seem to always be herded with the cattle ?
Actually marriage and a lot of insanity pills.
Is there any airport that anyone can recommend that has a quicker way in - christ this is coming out gobbly gook. I have used atlanta, philly, pitsburg, detroit, and cincinatti and they all take so long when u get off the plane and clearing customs. Is there a magic airport out there that goes quicker than atlanta, last time i was queueing for three hours to just get told have a nice time, stamped and getting my luggage, missed my connecting flight. Or a better time of day to arrive. It seems all the international flights all land at the same time.
and as a PR do u go thru a different queue. I seem to always be herded with the cattle ?
It departs the UK at 08.55am and gets into Newark at approx 11.35am ET. I do voluntary work there and I can tell you that terminal B is very quiet at that time of the day for international arrivals....it's almost always the first plane to arrive at this terminal from Europe during the late morning and therefore it's really quick to get through immigration, baggage retrieval and customs.
Very rarely the BA185 may have departed late from Heathrow and the Dutch KLM flight in that case may arrive a few minutes beforehand.
Apr 4th 2007, 11:45 am
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Re: so how did you get in?
[QUOTE=Tracym;4523011]
Clearing immigration both in Dublin and Shannon is pretty quick - I've done it quite a few times.
Clearing immigration both in Dublin and Shannon is pretty quick - I've done it quite a few times.
Apr 5th 2007, 1:51 pm
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Re: so how did you get in?
It pisses me off that good decent people like all of us Brits here are subjected to what you've been through, while over ten thousand walk across the southern border every week, to enter the US illegally, and Bush REFUSES TO ENFORCE the law of the land to stop them.
He could take action to stem the flood of illegal immigrants ( approve funding for enforcing border controls, hire hundreds more border patrol officers, dozens more attorneys to prosecute corporations making huge profits/screwing American blue-collar workers by using sub-min-wage illegals ) but what does he do?
He says he'll only strengthen border controls ( i.e. do his sworn Presidential duty to uphold the LAW of the United Sates ) if Congress will approve AMNESTY. ( ie THEY just walk in illegally, get citizenship, while YOU, trying to do it LEGALLY, are subjected to endless stress and refusal )
One has to ask WHY? Arizona & Texas Senators Jerome Corsi and Jim Gilchrist have founded the multi-ethnic "Minutemen" movement ( after the instant-response patriots of the Civil War ) to post vigilante volunteers along the border, since the US government won't act, won't respond to their demands that Bush enforce United States law...
They both want the US to be governed by the rule of LAW.
See their book
"Minutemen - the battle to secure US borders"
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