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Chewbacca   18

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Hello VJ community,

On the DS-250 form there is one section called "Previous US Travel Information", where we need to list the last five visits to USA.

My question is: I have dual citizenship (Brazilian and Italian), and lately I have been using the italian passport (VWP) to enter USA and visit my husband. However, I'm applying for the CR1 visa in Brazil, so the visa will be issued in the Brazilian passport. So I don't know if I should list the visits to USA with only the Brazilian passport or should I list the ones that I'd entered with the Italian passport as well?

Also, I did pass through USA while transiting to another foreign country. Does that list as a visit? I just spend few hours in the airport before catching my plane.

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You need to list the trips you (as a person) have been on. What passport you were using has nothing to do with it.

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Ryan H   3,790

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Moved from Progress Reports to Process & Procedures.

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I don't believe you would list the layover in the airport. If it was an international layover I assume you stayed in the international terminal of the airport, and never went through immigration?

I would only list it if on that trip you had to go through immigration and get your passport stamped/checked.

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Chewbacca   18

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I don't believe you would list the layover in the airport. If it was an international layover I assume you stayed in the international terminal of the airport, and never went through immigration?

I would only list it if on that trip you had to go through immigration and get your passport stamped/checked.

Unfortunately everyone has to pass immigration when arriving to USA, even if they are catching another flight to another country in just few hours. That's why there's something called Transit Visa, but you can also use a tourist visa to transit through USA. Not only I got my passport stamped, but also there was a I94 online record for that entrance.

The last time I was flying back home (with a connection flight in USA) and the CPB officer in Miami gave me a really hard time, even though I was leaving the country in 3 hours... completely unecessary. I just wonder what he could have done? Deport me? I was taking a flight home anyway :-)

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Crazy I never knew that. It would be annoying if I had to go through immigration at every country I change planes in whenever I fly (Flying through places like London, Frankfurt, Singapore, Hong Kong etc...). I would hate flying through the US then. My wife has changed planes here but never mentioned having to go through immigration, but maybe people from outside the US just see it as normal for US airports.

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