San Diego US Port of Entry Reviews
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| San Diego |  Review #15518. Entry: 2013-09-13 |
Lynkali
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The British Airways flight from London (UK) to San Diego is always a nice way of getting to the Southern California area, and San Diego is a pretty easy POE for K-1 (or any other visa), it turns out. Certainly nothing bad to report, just a bit of a wait until all the regular non-visa passengers had been cleared out.
Arrived at 6:40 p.m. on the flight direct from London, and went through the normal customs area. Entered the "visitors" line but eventually the US citizens line had cleared and all the visitors were processed by the same officers. Got to the main window, did fingerprints and passport control, then the officer took the sealed packet, called over a security guard, said "here's another visa package". Was led by the guard back to the back of the hall to sit on some benches until most of the normal arrivals had cleared out. Waited about 10-15 minutes, then a lady came and asked to verify the local address (that's IT, no questions about fiancée or relationship or marriage or anything else!). There were 3-4 other visa people, probably student and possibly another K-1/CR-1. More waiting (10-15 minutes again), then the lady brought back passport and said "you're good to go!". Then exited normally through the luggage/customs area.
Total wait time was about 40-50 minutes from when the plane landed -- walked out into the airport at 7:45 from the 6:40 arrival!
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| San Diego | Review #15337. Entry: 2012-12-06 |
jaycali
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Landed at San Diego airport on the daily British Airways flight from London at 7:45pm. This is one of the only international flights arriving in San Diego so the lines aren't that long.
I handed a female CBP officer my passport, customs form and the brown envelope. At first she said she'd do it right there, but as the line got longer she called another male officer over who told her to handle me after the lines cleared. The male officer escorted me to a waiting area outside of secondary, and brought my brown packet and passport inside with him.
About 20 minutes later, the female officer who initially started on my case at the booth called my name and I went into the secondary inspection room. It was only her and the male officer there. I saw the brown envelope on the desk torn open, and she had me sign the front and back of the green card application. That was it. She said "You should receive the actual card in the mail. You're all set. Good luck!"
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| San Diego | Review #15208. Entry: 2012-04-12 |
Laure&Colin
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This review is for San Diego international Lindbergh airport.
I came on British Airways daily flight from London, the most direct way to reach San Diego from Europe. We landed at 6:30 PM, and I was out by 8PM.
First, I had to go to one of the regular booths, where they took my fingerprints (worked a lot better than in Paris embassy on the day of my visa interview...) and picture. Then I was asked to sit and wait in front of the door leading to CBP offices, and told when the lines start to clear, someone would come pick me up. (SAN is a small airport and the CBP staff that night was about 8 people).
After about 25 min, an officer came, took my passport and brown enveloppe, and asked me to wait outside. 15 more min and he came out, asking if I had additional passport sized photos, because the embassy didn't include them in the packet and he needed 2 more. I had expected that to happen and had them in my carry on bag (see my embassy review).
Finally, he came back out another 10 min later and asked me to follow him into the office. He made me sign both sides of the GC application form he was filling out, and took my fingerprints with black ink. We double checked the address to which my GC would be sent (there was some confusion about it at the embassy). He then started to enter data into his system, not very sure what to do (he had to take out his immigration law manual to check how long he was supposed to give me on the stamp). Luckily all the other officers came into the room helping him out and joking with me. One of them even knew my home town and they told me the day my stamp expires is when I have to come back cook them a French dinner!
Eventually, they gave me my passport back and said I should contact USCIS if I don't receive my GC within 3-4 months, and escorted me to luggage screening. I failed to realize they didn't handwrite my A# on my passport, after an 11-hour flight I was really out of it... So, some waiting (Colin was getting crazy waiting outside), but no difficulty at all.
However, later, as I applied for a social security number, I was made aware of a problem with my records. USCIS then informed me that the CBP made a wrong data input when I entered the country: my last name has been "shortened" in the arrival record. Over one month later, I'm still trying to have this error fixed, and nobody at CBP knows what to do...
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| San Diego | Review #15129. Entry: 2012-02-29 |
hilda_roxy
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Me and my fiance used the pedestrian crossing through Tijuana/San Ysidro. The process took about hour and a half since they had no idea how to process it. Thank God we were out of there and everything turned out great.
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| San Diego | Review #2728. Entry: 2005-07-14 |
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Easy border crossing at San Ysidro. Luz and family flew into Tijuana and we drove across. We got to the border around 1 AM due to the late arrival of her flight. Border was very quiet. Nice agents. Took about 45 minutes to process as they were confused about some procedures.
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