FOSSLGRL
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I drove from Kingston, Ontario down to Nashville Tennessee.
Instead of dealing with the madness at the Detroit crossing, I went east about 40km to the Thousand Island Bridge crossing, and drove through New York.
It was wonderfully fast and easy.
It was snowing so there was virtually no one making the crossing. There was one car ahead of me and I waited about 30 seconds for my turn.
The lady at the window was very friendly and joked about me having to drive down by myself without my fiance helping me. She asked if I had alcohol and I told her I had some coolers and asked if she needed the receipt, she said no. She took my package and passport, and told me to park ahead in one of the bays.
When I pulled in, the woman who took my car keys was very serious. She instructed me to go inside the building to the waiting area, and wait for my name to be called.
There was no one else inside so I sat down awkwardly all alone. Right away I saw a man with my folder in his hand and he approached one of the computers. They had a nice giant TV screen so that kept me entertained for the short time I was in there. I waited about 5 minutes for him to enter some stuff into the computer and then he called me up. He was neither friendly or unfriendly. I had to confirm/write down the address where I would be living. He took my finger prints and asked me if I had ever been arrested. He instructed me to sit back down while he finished entering data into the computer. 5 more minutes went by, and he called me back up to collect my passport with stamp and I-94. He confirmed that I was aware I had 90 days to marry my petitioner. He handed me an orange ticket and told me to the agent who took my car keys.
I went back to my car, the woman came out, I gave her the ticket, she gave me my keys and told me to drive safe.
And that was it! A total of 20 minutes or so, I wasn't keeping track.
As far as I know they didn't do a search of my vehicle... which I was happy for because my stuff was so crammed in there, and I had a bicycle on top, it was very difficult to get it in there.
I give the experience 10/10 or 5 *'s. I don't see any way that it could have been better and I'm very glad that I didn't have to deal with the hoards of people at the Detroit crossing.
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Port of Entry Member Review #16246
Entry Date: 2016-11-21