Mid-K1 US/Canada Border Crossing Items

[Level99 1]

First off, let me just say thank you so much to each and every VJer here. Thanks to you all and the information on this phenomenal website, I was able to get the I129F filed in quick and complete fashion, and many of my fears and questions about upcoming processes and dos/don'ts have been answered without needing to pay a lawyer or call government agencies. Y'all do right proper good work to have world-found couples find happiness.

I'm a US Citizen, engaged to a Canadian (Quebeqois ) currently waiting for NOA2. Been dating for 2 1/2 years, engaged for 1 1/2, and I'm used to driving the 17 hours each way to go and visit, as well as transport her from there to here for 2 month stays while waiting for the petition to progress. We actually applied for the K1 ahead of when we planned due to an incident at border crossing where she was nearly denied entry. Apparently, any couple visiting the US by car who stays longer than a month and isn't a "snowbird" is flagged as suspicious. We were able to convince the officer there of our legitimacy through my accurate knowledge of the K1 visa, and how we were planning on applying shortly. She let us pass and I applied the following week to make sure that these travel woes resolve ASAP!

As many of you know, it really depends on the person you get and the mood they are in as to how smoothly you can cross the border between Quebec and US. My open question is what kind of evidence should I be bringing to make the hop between as problem free as possible. I've listed below all the ones I can think of or have been told, as well as whether or not it applies to my personal situation. Any further recommendations are greatly appreciated since I am going back up to get her in mid-July with her staying until the beginning of September.

• I129F NOA1 letter
  
• Return Tickets (only applies if she is taking the train, which is happening less and less these days)
  
• Proof of work (she is unemployed, finished school last year and unable to find a job that will hire her and allow her the 2 month stagger to visit me)
  
• Passport stamp (coming to the US from Canada by car or train, passport does not get stamped)
  
• Proof of ties (she lives with her parents, she has no car of her own yet, and her cell phone is a US number)
  

Thus far the I129F NOA1 letter has been the most effective (kind of has to be since its all I'm able to use when traveling by car now!), with the person giving us the rundown nearly flagging us until I presented it.

So anyone else have tips?

Edited June 4, 2012 by Level99

[Flames9_RN 358]

First off, let me just say thank you so much to each and every VJer here. Thanks to you all and the information on this phenomenal website, I was able to get the I129F filed in quick and complete fashion, and many of my fears and questions about upcoming processes and dos/don'ts have been answered without needing to pay a lawyer or call government agencies. Y'all do right proper good work to have world-found couples find happiness.

I'm a US Citizen, engaged to a Canadian (Quebeqois ) currently waiting for NOA2. Been dating for 2 1/2 years, engaged for 1 1/2, and I'm used to driving the 17 hours each way to go and visit, as well as transport her from there to here for 2 month stays while waiting for the petition to progress. We actually applied for the K1 ahead of when we planned due to an incident at border crossing where she was nearly denied entry. Apparently, any couple visiting the US by car who stays longer than a month and isn't a "snowbird" is flagged as suspicious. We were able to convince the officer there of our legitimacy through my accurate knowledge of the K1 visa, and how we were planning on applying shortly. She let us pass and I applied the following week to make sure that these travel woes resolve ASAP!

As many of you know, it really depends on the person you get and the mood they are in as to how smoothly you can cross the border between Quebec and US. My open question is what kind of evidence should I be bringing to make the hop between as problem free as possible. I've listed below all the ones I can think of or have been told, as well as whether or not it applies to my personal situation. Any further recommendations are greatly appreciated since I am going back up to get her in mid-July with her staying until the beginning of September.

• I129F NOA1 letter
  
• Return Tickets (only applies if she is taking the train, which is happening less and less these days)
  
• Proof of work (she is unemployed, finished school last year and unable to find a job that will hire her and allow her the 2 month stagger to visit me)
  
• Passport stamp (coming to the US from Canada by car or train, passport does not get stamped)
  
• Proof of ties (she lives with her parents, she has no car of her own yet, and her cell phone is a US number)
  

Thus far the I129F NOA1 letter has been the most effective (kind of has to be since its all I'm able to use when traveling by car now!), with the person giving us the rundown nearly flagging us until I presented it.

So anyone else have tips?

Yes do a search on Canadians visiting the USA!! lol. This question gets asked multiple times a week, so by doing a search, (and changing the wording) you should get flooded with results. Best of luck

[3-4D 7]

First off, let me just say thank you so much to each and every VJer here. Thanks to you all and the information on this phenomenal website, I was able to get the I129F filed in quick and complete fashion, and many of my fears and questions about upcoming processes and dos/don'ts have been answered without needing to pay a lawyer or call government agencies. Y'all do right proper good work to have world-found couples find happiness.

I'm a US Citizen, engaged to a Canadian (Quebeqois ) currently waiting for NOA2. Been dating for 2 1/2 years, engaged for 1 1/2, and I'm used to driving the 17 hours each way to go and visit, as well as transport her from there to here for 2 month stays while waiting for the petition to progress. We actually applied for the K1 ahead of when we planned due to an incident at border crossing where she was nearly denied entry. Apparently, any couple visiting the US by car who stays longer than a month and isn't a "snowbird" is flagged as suspicious. We were able to convince the officer there of our legitimacy through my accurate knowledge of the K1 visa, and how we were planning on applying shortly. She let us pass and I applied the following week to make sure that these travel woes resolve ASAP!

As many of you know, it really depends on the person you get and the mood they are in as to how smoothly you can cross the border between Quebec and US. My open question is what kind of evidence should I be bringing to make the hop between as problem free as possible. I've listed below all the ones I can think of or have been told, as well as whether or not it applies to my personal situation. Any further recommendations are greatly appreciated since I am going back up to get her in mid-July with her staying until the beginning of September.

• I129F NOA1 letter
  
• Return Tickets (only applies if she is taking the train, which is happening less and less these days)
  
• Proof of work (she is unemployed, finished school last year and unable to find a job that will hire her and allow her the 2 month stagger to visit me)
  
• Passport stamp (coming to the US from Canada by car or train, passport does not get stamped)
  
• Proof of ties (she lives with her parents, she has no car of her own yet, and her cell phone is a US number)
  

Thus far the I129F NOA1 letter has been the most effective (kind of has to be since its all I'm able to use when traveling by car now!), with the person giving us the rundown nearly flagging us until I presented it.

So anyone else have tips?

Greetings,

You basically have to proof that she has ties in Canada. My fiancee has been crossed the border so many times by proving that she is still in school and she is visiting for a vacation and will take an exams when she return as long as she had the verification of enrollment. Based on what you listed, it will be pretty hard for the border patrol guy to let her in, as she is unemployed(not that being unemployed you cannot come in) but she is not in school, she has no real estate to proof her ties back to canada. My fiancee has went through pretty much hard time even with her school enrollment.