Can the Petitioner travel with the Beneficiary

[jdompor1 0]

I would like to know if I, the petitioner can accompany my fiancé(Benefiaciary) on her flight to USA. Will that be an issue?

[Cody and Daisy 374]

Yes you can travel. Why wouldn't you be able to?

Question is, will you be allowed to go through border control together.

That I have seen can vary from airport to airport.

Some have managed to go through the citizen line together, some haven't.

If you can't do not worry, your fiancée will be taken to secondary and asked a few questions just to make sure everything is in order, it's how they check us in and send off the packet for AOS.

[Ian H. 207]

I see you're in Bergenfield, my cousin lives there lol. Anyway, I don't know if you will be coming through Newark, but in JFK the petitioner can be processed with the beneficiary together.

When my other cousin and her husband came, they were processed together, she is an LPR, they were also both allowed along with his son, into that small secondary inspection room. In JFK, there is no separate line, for LPR's and citizens.

You definitely would be able to travel together, there is no requirement that you be in the US when the beneficiary arrives. The only thing is if you have to go to separate lines, but you can just ask one of the guards there if you can proceed together.

[Girl from Celebes 588]

Yes you can travel. Why wouldn't you be able to?

Question is, will you be allowed to go through border control together.

That I have seen can vary from airport to airport.

Some have managed to go through the citizen line together, some haven't.

If you can't do not worry, your fiancée will be taken to secondary and asked a few questions just to make sure everything is in order, it's how they check us in and send off the packet for AOS.

It is vary actually and I am here to give a second opinion. My husband ( my then-fiance) and I did not go through the secondary inspection or whatever we called for it. We went together through USC-Alien Resident line as you have already mentioned above that can vary from some airports. There are many members here also traveled alone without their petitioner and did not have to go to the secondary inspection.

To OP:

Ask an officer there about whether you and your fiance can go together through USC-Alien Resident line. When my husband and I was in Detroit - my PoE-, some officer looked at us and asked whether we came together or not. After he knew we were together then he told us go to USC-Alien Resident line. The good thing about USC-Alien Resident line that it was very short compared to non-USC Line. Good luck!

Edited October 14, 2014 by Girl from Celebes

[HafsaJawwad 39]

I see you're in Bergenfield, my cousin lives there lol. Anyway, I don't know if you will be coming through Newark, but in JFK the petitioner can be processed with the beneficiary together.

When my other cousin and her husband came, they were processed together, she is an LPR, they were also both allowed along with his son, into that small secondary inspection room. In JFK, there is no separate line, for LPR's and citizens.

You definitely would be able to travel together, there is no requirement that you be in the US when the beneficiary arrives. The only thing is if you have to go to separate lines, but you can just ask one of the guards there if you can proceed together.

But I think the difference is that she is travelling with her fiance. Her fiance is not a LPR yet. He will be coming in with a non-immigrant visa. But yeah I think just asking when you get there would be okay and they should be helpful in figuring out where to go.

[Ian H. 207]

My cousin's husband and stepson weren't LPR's either, they had immigrant visas. It depends on the airport, like Girl from Celebes said. They just need to ask one of the officers there if they can proceed together before they get on a particular line. In either case, the only bad thing is that the line for nonimmigrants is much longer.