Hi everyone,

It's been ages since I've posted here! My husband and I got married in July 2005, and everything is going great. We're gearing up to visit his family in England for the first time in almost 2 years! I have two questions:

1). As a conditional permanent resident, is he free to travel outside the country?

2). Maybe a dumb question, but when we get to the airport, do we go through customs together, or do we have to go to separate queues?

Thanks!

1)

2) A conditional permanent resident is a legal permanent resident (LPR). When you go to the POE, one set of lines is for visitors and non residents the other is for USC's and LPR's.

Thanks for your help What about at the airport in England? Any idea?

In the UK they have similar queues. The UK citizen and legal residents goes through the citizen/resident line and the non-UK citizen & visitors go through the visitor line. I am almost certain however that the UK citizen can downgrade themselves and go through the non-citizen line with you...

that's my understanding as well. I was telling Chas that he could eventually go thru the 'fast line' at Heathrow while I cooled my heels at the not so fast line; he said no sense in that, he'd just go through with me.

There's a 'fast line' at Heathrow...???

We have just come back from a holiday in england and when we went through immigration at gatwick we all went through the UK line (me and four USC). When we came back we all went through the USC line. There was no problems at either end and no long lines that way.

Tony

Sort of a contradiction in term, I'll admit!