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Yay! Interview approved on the spot yesterday in Lawrence MA and today my status changed to new card being produced! It's the end of this journey for me (for now) and I couldnt be more relieved! Good luck everyone, its gonna happen soon for you guys too if it hasnt already!

Yay! Interview approved on the spot yesterday in Lawrence MA and today my status changed to new card being produced! It's the end of this journey for me (for now) and I couldnt be more relieved! Good luck everyone, its gonna happen soon for you guys too if it hasnt already!

Yay! Interview approved on the spot yesterday in Lawrence MA and today my status changed to new card being produced! It's the end of this journey for me (for now) and I couldnt be more relieved! Good luck everyone, its gonna happen soon for you guys too if it hasnt already!

Good to hear!!!!!!! I really hope he had no idea what he was talking about! Im glad to see you have the one month emergency parole as well as I heard many people experiences with an unlimited one, so I wasnt sure if my case with the 30 days ap was different.... Im supposed to get the combo really soon if all goes well and the agent was sadly mistakenn..i'll make sure to update you guys as soon as something moves on my case!

Just giving some feedback after my info pass at Seattle office. They approved my emergency AP today and it is valid a month from today. I asked what will happen with my previous AP application, and I was told nothing will change and I will receive it as a combo card. Also, I don’t need to return it. 
 

Hey everyone! My applications are still pending....day 140 over here. But my grandfather passed away and I need to go back home to Canada for the funeral..I tried to get an expedite on ap but i have to leave soon so that wont be processed fast enough...so this morning I had an infopass to get an emergency travel document.
They approved my request but the agent also told me that by getting the emergency travel document, I am voiding the advance parole application thats in proccess (and almost processed actully....im on day 140 grr). He said that I wont be getting a combo card, just the EAD and I wont be able to travel again until I get the green card (wich takes forever in my state). Have you ever heard of the emergency travel voiding the ap!? How true is this!?

Sooooooooo...thanks to the person starting this thread, it worked for me as well!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
My car is officialy imported and registered!
 
To give more details, it did'nt look like it  would work for me at first because when I called the custom office near where I live on thursday, the officer told me it it was not something they were doing and that it had to be done when I moved here on my k1 visa and that I would have to drive back to canada and deal with it on my way back. I explained to him that I dont have my advance parole yet, so it wasnt an option for me and the one year was coming to an end and I didnt know what to do....At first the officer told me I had to do some 'homeworkd' and was going through the list of everything I needed in order to import a car and he saw that I in fact had done my homeworks and had everything he was asking...so the officer must have heard the desperation in my voice and told me he was gonna try to help me if he could and told me to call  back the next morning at 9h30 so he can have time to discuss the issue with his supervisor. 
 
As promised I called back and when I mentionned why I was calling and requesting the same officer I had talked to, the officer on the line said he was the supervisor, and it was him who was gonna 'deal with me' 😳. I basically repverything, he was super short, asking me if i had filled the HS799-Short and EPA 3520 forms, wich i told him I did as much as I could..he asked if I had the manufacturer letter ( I did) and thats when I mentionned it was compliant other the tpms and that I had that corrected this week and I have the invoice to prove it..he sighted and seemed annoyed and told me to go down there and he would take a look at what I have. 
 
When I arrived, the first officer I talked to came to me and he was suprisignly very nice and welcoming, ready to help me out so I was very relieved. He requested my Passeport, driving license, the 2 forms (he helped me complete them), the title wich was in french since im from quebec but he didnt mind, the manufacturer letter and the tpms installation invoic...he left with my paperwork for about 10 minutes and cameback with a stamped piece of paper, made me filled a couple more forms, didnt even asked to see my car or anything and sent me on my way to the dmv! 
 
The DMV needed to have the rmv1 form form my car insurance compagny so I had to leave and come back so make sure you have that. But other than that, they took the piece of paper from the customs, my title, made me fill a few forms and that was it!!!!!!! 
 
I dont know if I was lucky cause they were definitly not sweating the tpms issue, it was more about the fact that my car didnt get imported when I first move to america. So basically, make sure you show them you have done your research and have everything in hand and request your RMV1 from your insurance before going to register your car!
 
Hoping you guys get a nice officer willing to help out as well!

I just bought the Vesafe kit from amazon and will be trying to get it imported early next week. I'll update as well!!!🤞

Hey there, I created an account just to reply to this post because I was also able to successfully import my car without an OEM TPMS, using the steps provided by the OP.  Here are the details:
 
I have a Canadian 2016 Mercedes-Benz C300 4-Matic Sedan that has the "passive" TPLS system and my compliance letter indicated that my car was not compliant with the following:
 
#101, namely:    Instrument Cluster
#138, namely:    Tire Pressure Monitoring System

 
I also called a bunch of registered importers as well as Mercedes-Benz in both Canada and the USA and was told that there was nothing that they could do, it would cost too much, just sell it, etc.  I bought an after-market TPMS system from Amazon for like 89 dollars CDN (Vesafe TPMS CL-201) with 4 Bluetooth sensors that screw on to the stems tips and a small, flat unit that goes into the cigarette lighter and shows the PSI for each of the tires. 
 
I took the Vesafe TPMS system to a tire place (I went to "OK Tire" in Etobicoke) and they "installed it" for me, basically just screwing the sensors into the stems, and gave me an invoice indicating that they "Installed customer-provided after-market TPMS system", which I signed.
 
I took the OK Tire  invoice, along with my ownership, the compliance letter from Mercedes, my bill of sale, my proof that I paid off my financing, and semi-completed forms HS799-Short and EPA 3520-1 to the rainbow bridge at like 8am on a Wednesday.  I was the only one there and I'm not sure if that made a difference or not.  The officer asked me to turn on my car and show him my speedometer in MPH, which I can configure for the center LCD display in my car but my physical speedometer and other dials still showed KMs.  I also showed him the working TPMS receiver in the cigarette lighter and showed him the sensors plugged into the tire stems and then we went back inside to fill out forms.  I had already downloaded the forms and filled out the easy stuff like my name, manufacturer, model and VIN number wherever I could, to show initiative and make his life easier I guess...
 
On the EPA form, I did not have to fill out fields 3, 8, 9, 10, 12 or 15 and I put my name and address in field 11.  They told me to select code EE in the box below.  This will likely be specific to your car.
 
On the HS799 form, I just put in the make/model, year and VIN.  The officer put my name in the "registered importer" field and put in the port of entry (0901), customs port code (0901) and entry date (today's date).  The customs entry and vehicle eligibility numbers were left blank, so was the "description of merchandise" box.  The officer then selected "2A" for my car, saying that it conformed to FMVSS.  He stamped each with a seal from homeland security and I signed in a few places and he photocopied the above forms and some of my stuff, including my TPMS invoice from OK Tire, for their records and gave me back all of the originals.  He said that I would need these forms to register the car at the DMV, so make sure to keep them safe.
 
I was also given a form called Resident Personal Vehicle Importation - Informal CBP 7501 "Entry Summary" which has some of my information on it, which I also signed and kept the original.  I think this form helps the officers to make sure they get all the required information that they need but I am going to bring this to the DMV too, just in case.  
 
I was at the CBP for about 20 minutes total and I head back to Canada as soon as I was done.  I have been researching this importing process for more than 3 months and this is the only post on the entire internet that I was able to find that had anyone saying they were successful.  I am so glad that I found it, as I would not have been able to import the car successfully otherwise.  The key to this is having a professional tire place install the TPMS and getting an invoice, then showing the officer the TPMS working on your vehicle and having all the documentation that you need.
 
Thanks again to the original poster - I will follow up once I go to register the car in Seattle.
 
 

Hi everyone!  AOS/EAD/AP was received august 23rd but we received acceptance email on sept 4th so I guess I am a September filer as well🙋‍♀️
Looking forward to follow your journey and hopefully it all goes smooth for all of us! 
 
And does anyone know why the Lawrence, MA field office isnt in the field office choices?! My interview will be there but I cannot select it, visajourney only offers Boston for my state 🤔