Jmah89

Happy to share my update and thank you for helping me feel better about it all before our travels. Sorry you had that bad experience. It’s already stressful traveling and then adding in the immigration aspect just magnifies everything. I’ll definitely remember your tip for next time.

We just made it back from Ecuador. No troubles at all! The copa airlines agent in Guayaquil took all the paperwork and green card and passport and gave us our boarding pass. in Houston, residents have to go in the same line as visitors, so I went in that line with my wife and our son. No problems at all with the CBP agent. He took my wife’s fingerprints and sent us through. I have this feeling that traveling with our one year old son helped us gain some credibility or sympathy. Who knows but I was stressing out for nothing it seems!

yes we are flying to Guayaquil. We booked the whole flight through united. I do remember seeing that route with avianca to bogota but i think we got a better deal through united. I'll keep that in mind for next time! how is CBP coming back in through IAH? Think we will run into any issues with our extension letter or they will let us through no problem? its 10 day trip to ecuador just to visit family.

Luis thank you SO Much! I've been having such bad anxiety about this trip just thinking about the airline not wanting to give my wife a boarding pass. We would be flying back up to California, so COPA airlines was our best bet. We have to stop in Panama (which i'm pretty sure is HQ for COPA) on our way to Houston TX, and then finally to California. Going to be a long day of travel for us with our toddler. Wife's ecuadorian passport does not expire until 2030, thankfully. Hopefully she will be a US citizen before that! we will be applying for n400 once we return from our trip.

Thank you for sharing Luis. My wife also has an extension letter and we are going to visit ecuador (her home country) in a week. Did you fly Copa airlines?