JungleOne

Hello, my in-laws entered the USA on an IR-5 visa yesterday.  At their POE they had one sealed envelope and another unsealed envelope which contained their birth cert, marriage cert, name change, police cert...etc - basically all the paperwork that was submitted to NVC.  The immigration officer kept both envelopes after going thru them.  Is this standard operating procedure?    I believe they keep the sealed one but was wondering why they took the unsealed one.  Will they get that envelope back?

Hello, my in-laws entered the USA on an IR-5 visa yesterday.  At their POE they had one sealed envelope and another unsealed envelope which contained their birth cert, marriage cert, name change, police cert...etc - basically all the paperwork that was submitted to NVC.  The immigration officer kept both envelopes after going thru them.  Is this standard operating procedure?    I believe they keep the sealed one but was wondering why they took the unsealed one.  Will they get that envelope back?