managed hardly to enter USA

[kareelina 42]

Hi VJ

I am posting now from my home in San Francisco . It was a very tiring and painful experience . we arrived at SFC  airport on 26 just a day before signing the executive order . They took my sealed package and passport and kept me for 5 hours and a half . Asking me where I was born , then of my both parents , my job in Egypt although all these information were there already . than I was asked to wait till they get an a reply , a reply means an order whether to let me in or send me back . and after waiting for long they gave us our passport and said OK you can go and collect your baggage , but I noticed that the stamp in my passport is faded and the term admitted is not there , while it is very clear in my kids passports , and inside the stamp the officer wrote IR1  D/S

I don't know what D/S means . Now after what happened the next day of preventing even GC holders from entering the country I am not sure whether I will get my green card or not  or even my social security.

[Ketsuban 1,033]

Don't worry. If you paid the Green Card fee online then you will get the card. There should have been instructions included when you got your passport back from the embassy on how to pay.

 

As for your social security, you might not get that but then that happens to a lot of people due to the system being a bit rubbish. I would wait a couple of weeks for your details to be uploaded to the SAVE system, then go to your local Social Security Administration office and apply in person. Take your stamped passport with you and if they give you grief, ask for a supervisor or go to another office. When I got mine done, the woman tried telling me the stamped passport wasn't the equivalent of a Green Card (it really is lol).

 

I'm not sure why you had D/S written on there. Those are usually for student or seasonal work visas and indicate that you can only stay as long as your program lasts for (that's what I gathered from Googling, someone else might have more info on what it means). You're a permanent resident now and you're in the US. Unless they start going around deporting legal residents who are in the country, you have nothing to worry about now.

 

I'm really sorry you went through such an arduous process after waiting so long for your visa, but I hope it will all be uphill from here.

[Suss&Camm 2,213]

1 hour ago, kareelina said:

Hi VJ

I am posting now from my home in San Francisco . It was a very tiring and painful experience . we arrived at SFC  airport on 26 just a day before signing the executive order . They took my sealed package and passport and kept me for 5 hours and a half . Asking me where I was born , then of my both parents , my job in Egypt although all these information were there already . than I was asked to wait till they get an a reply , a reply means an order whether to let me in or send me back . and after waiting for long they gave us our passport and said OK you can go and collect your baggage , but I noticed that the stamp in my passport is faded and the term admitted is not there , while it is very clear in my kids passports , and inside the stamp the officer wrote IR1  D/S

I don't know what D/S means . Now after what happened the next day of preventing even GC holders from entering the country I am not sure whether I will get my green card or not  or even my social security.

Happy you made it okay  You shouldn't worry about the D/S.

 

"On the admission stamp or paper Form I-94, the U.S. immigration inspector records either an admitted-until date or "D/S" (duration of status). If your admission stamp or paper Form I-94 contains a specific date, then that is the date by which you must leave the United State. If you have D/S on your admission stamp or paper Form I-94, you may remain in the United States as long as you continue your course of studies, remain in your exchange program, or qualifying employment. The admitted-until date or D/S notation, shown on your admission stamp or paper Form I-94 is the official record of your authorized length of stay in the United States. You cannot use the visa expiration date in determining or referring to your permitted length of stay in the United States."

 

https://travel.state.gov/content/visas/en/general/visa-expiration-date.html

 

It just means that your Duration of Status is in accordance of regulations for IR1. There is no real time limit for which you are admitted so I would assume they can't write a date.

 

Try to relax a bit and be happy you are here and everything went well. Enjoy your family  Good Luck 

 

Edited January 30, 2017 by Suss&Camm

[kareelina 42]

1 hour ago, Suss&Camm said:

Happy you made it okay  You shouldn't worry about the D/S.

 

https://travel.state.gov/content/visas/en/general/visa-expiration-date.html

 

It just means that your Duration of Status is in accordance of regulations for IR1. There is no real time limit for which you are admitted so I would assume they can't write a date.

 

Try to relax a bit and be happy you are here and everything went well. Enjoy your family  Good Luck 

 

Because of what is going on and people with green card were sent home or stopped from getting on a plane really scared me , I can not imagine after 18 months of waiting to join my husband then I find myself out of the country after giving away everything in my homeland : car , house , job ....

[kareelina 42]

14 hours ago, Ketsuban said:

Don't worry. If you paid the Green Card fee online then you will get the card. There should have been instructions included when you got your passport back from the embassy on how to pay.As for your social security, you might not get that but then that happens to a lot of people due to the system being a bit rubbish. I would wait a couple of weeks for your details to be uploaded to the SAVE system, then go to your local Social Security Administration office and apply in person. Take your stamped passport with you and if they give you grief, ask for a supervisor or go to another office. When I got mine done, the woman tried telling me the stamped passport wasn't the equivalent of a Green Card (it really is lol).

I already paid for the green card before travelingto USA. 

The visa itself is a temporary GC valid for one year .the stamp is just a proof that you entered the country. 

We will find out soon what politics do to us. Very bad indeed and very disappointed to have that feeling the moment you stepped in American soil 

[KierenHby 897]

As an Egyptian passport holder, kareelina is not subject to the Executive Order ban.  Anyone entering the US, including US citizens, are subject to discretionary questioning by the CBP; some more than others. 

[Ben&Zian 4,397]

Everyone entering on a visa type, whether IR, CR, K-1, all go through their own type of questioning. The order hadn't been signed so even if that order didn't exist, seems you would have gone through same thing regardless because that is how immigrations works. My partner, didn't get grilled or anything; but waiting and took him 2-3 hours in Dallas, was one of the last people from his flight that got through finally. Glad you made it through though.

[Ahmed & Amy 291]

@kareelinaI am really glad you and your sons made it safely and got through the airport okay.  I hope for you and your family a happy, peaceful, and prosperous life in America. 

[Hypnos 6,576]

7 hours ago, KierenHby said:

Anyone entering the US, including US citizens, are subject to discretionary questioning by the CBP

But US citizens cannot be denied entry, nor are you compelled to answer their questions.

[KierenHby 897]

20 minutes ago, Hypnos said:

But US citizens cannot be denied entry, nor are you compelled to answer their questions.

Oh, agree with the first part. Not quite sure how a USC would fare not answering their questions though. 

[cyclone27 710]

You might not answer questions but USCIS can certainly hold you for 48hrs without cause. 

 

Better to cooperate less hassle in the long run.

[Mikeadam 3]

Congratulations . Inshalla it will be fine.  Don't worry you have legal rights .it's not chaotic that they just ask you to pack your stuff and leave without pointing at something illegal you did . Good Luck 

[kareelina 42]

On 1/30/2017 at 7:28 PM, Ahmed & Amy said:

@kareelinaI am really glad you and your sons made it safely and got through the airport okay.  I hope for you and your family a happy, peaceful, and prosperous life in America. 

Thanks a lot @Ahmed & Amy  I myself after the ordeal we had in SFC airport till now I could not believe that we are finally here , but still scared and worried about the SSC and GC  . I am not sure whether I am going to get either of them or not.

[kareelina 42]

23 hours ago, Mikeadam said:

Congratulations . Inshalla it will be fine.  Don't worry you have legal rights .it's not chaotic that they just ask you to pack your stuff and leave without pointing at something illegal you did . Good Luck 

Thanks a lot , all my papers are legal and my husband is a USC . My friends here who are GC holders are worried too .

[kareelina 42]

On 1/30/2017 at 6:55 PM, Ben&Zian said:

Everyone entering on a visa type, whether IR, CR, K-1, all go through their own type of questioning. The order hadn't been signed so even if that order didn't exist, seems you would have gone through same thing regardless because that is how immigrations works. My partner, didn't get grilled or anything; but waiting and took him 2-3 hours in Dallas, was one of the last people from his flight that got through finally. Glad you made it through though.

Thank you , I made it through and I am happy and lucky too , but now as it is said that the GC wouldn't be easy anymore , I am wondering if I may find difficulty to get my physical green card.