Would anyone like to share their experiences with me about LAX ? Ali will be coming into LAX and I really would like to be able to tell him what to expect.


Thanks !

I went through LAX. Apart from the big lines at immigration, it was a total breeze. The officer didnt ask me anything, he just took my brown envelope, stamped my I-94 and away I went! I have actually been more interigated when I have come to visit!

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I went through LAX with my Vietnamese wife 15 months ago. Something is different!
You'll walk down a long long hallway and then you'll come to the big customs processing room. You come into the big room at one far corner. The first few lines are for foreign nationals (lines 1 -10), farther down is the US citizen area (lines 11 - 20). I told my wife to wait in lines 1 - 10 and I went ahaed to line #20.

Then, I finished and I went looking for my wife and I couldn't find her?????????

I finally found her in the very begining of the room in special section for people with those brown envelopes that you're required to carry with you. She waited in the normal line for 45 minutes and then the customs officer told her to wait AGAIN in another line near where we orginally came into this large room, NOT a normal # line.

My point, when you come into the BIG room ask someone where your spouse should go who is carrying that big brown envelope, it may not be the normal # line.Only my experience in Feb. 2005, it probably held us up 45 min to 1 hour?

However, we finished and then I took my wife to see the sunset on Manhatten Beach (after we check-in at the hotel near LAX) for her first hours in America, it was very very romantic. We left Vietnam on a sunny Sunday morning said goodbye to her family at the airport in HCMC and then flew EAST across the intl. date line and saw the the sunset in America on that same exact date. We've had Good Luck since........(I'm very thankful)

Same here, except for the part about the officer asking questions - she asked me how I met my husband and what he does for a living. I told her he's a military officer and that was it.

Went through LAX almost 2 years ago, took me about 45 minutes total. The officer was scrutinizing every piece of papers inside of the brown envelope, it really took him forever !! He also asked few questions, some of them sounded "silly" such as "how long do you plan to stay in US ?" or "why does it take you so long to file K3 visa ?" ... Other than that, everything else was fine.