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Hi everyone i was approved earlier today. passport will be with me within 1 to 2 weeks. Thanks for all your advice. You were right didnt even ask me about the airport incident. Just how i met my wife and why we want to move to US (seeing as ny wife was living in UK last 4 years). Took 15 mins at most. Thanks again god bless.

Hi thanks everyone. Will let the group know the outcome of interview. I am more at ease after your posts. I was probably thinking too much into it.

On the paper handed to me there were several options including VWPP withdrawn VWPP cancelled and VWPP refused. The refused option was ticked. So i dont know if this was expedited removal. I didnt see anything mentioning expedited removal or ban Wife has applied for citizenship for youngest in the US. still waiting to hear from them.

Hi boiler, just out of curiosity what lead you to this conclusion ? I read conflicting messages, some that are talking about a 5 year ban on entering, i dont recall being told about any ban in my situation and also some that say it shouldn't affect my spouse application as the ban will be on the ESTA not on any immigrant visas moving forward however they may just ask me about it at the interview. Thanks for you input

Hello, I hope someone here can shed some light for me. In march of 2021 I arrived the US with my wife (married 5 years) and 2 children (ages 1 and 3 at the time). Wife is a US citizen and 1 child is US citizen and the other 1 is UK citizen. We had decided to move our family to the US and the time we had wrongly assumed we would be able to apply from the US for my greencard as not to separate our family. I arrived on an ESTA visa. I explained to the officer at the border exactly what my intentions were, which is to move, and i was taken aside and interviewed along with my wife. They allowed my wife and both the kids to go through however I ended up with a VWPP refusal and sent back to the UK with a 212(a)(7)(A)(i)(I) stamped on the passport. I was told i need to reapply for the CORRECT visa (IR1) from my HOME country(UK). I was flown back to the UK on the next available flight with the sworn statement. They were nice to me and realised i hadnt done my homework on the topic. I have since applied for my spouse visa here in the UK and have an interview at the london embassy next month (july). I have asked around and it seems as though, since i was honest and it was only a plain refusal of the ESTA visa it shouldnt harm my spouse application. However its true that i had immigrant intent and presented at the border with an ESTA visa however unwitting it was i did not know any better at the time and was honest from the outset. My question is this, will this particular incident affect my spouse application ? Will i need a waiver ? I have also read about people going through the whole process only to be told by a CO at the end of the journey they need a waiver and this has made me nervous so i felt like opening up to everyone to see what they thought. Thank you