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[bobargenis 0]

Fiancee is due to arrive very soon; Im looking at flights and have a question. The flight im looking at is from Lima to Ft. Lauderdale and connecting to Chicago. Question will Ft. Lauderdale be where USCIS will process her, or the final destination; Chicago? the layover is only one hour. Chicago does have a USCIS processing center at O'Hare

[aws&ndd 103]

They should process her at the first entry point into the US, which would be in Ft Lauderdale.

[MandR 0]

She will most definitely be processed in Ft. Lauderdale..... One hour is not giving her much time to be processed and catching the next flight to Chicago....

[Dave&Roza 748]

Fiancee is due to arrive very soon; Im looking at flights and have a question. The flight im looking at is from Lima to Ft. Lauderdale and connecting to Chicago. Question will Ft. Lauderdale be where USCIS will process her, or the final destination; Chicago? the layover is only one hour. Chicago does have a USCIS processing center at O'Hare

It is the first airport, sea port, or land crossing that she sets foot on US soil (there are a few places where this is done at the origin airport in the foreign country, but those are rare). So it will be Ft. Lauderdale. I would do one of three things 1) change her flight so she arrives at O'hare directly, 2) find a much later flight from Ft. Lauderdale to O'hare--I would give it at least two hours to clear customs and immigration and get the bags, or 3) fly down to Ft. Lauderdale, spend a couple of days there and then the two of you fly on the O'hare. I was lucky enough to have a direct flight from either Frankfurt or Heathrow to Denver for my fiancee to take. The Heathrow option was about $1600 and had a 2 hour layover and the Frankfurt option was about $1400 and had a 7.5 layover. It came down to which the fiancee was more comfortable with. She had been to Frankfurt before so was familar with the airport.

Good luck,

Dave