blue123
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Arrived by cruise ship into Boston Harbour after transatlantic crossing. Immigration information given the day before told us all non US Citizens to be present in the main dining room at 6.30am as immigration officers would board the ship and everyone would be proccessed on board before disembarkation.
We were in a long line at 6.30am, made it to the front of line by 7.15am had my package and x ray ready for them, then the problems started, nobody knew what to do with us, we were told to take a seat and wait till their supervisor arrived, 20 mins later supervisor arrived and told us they didn't have the necessary equipment to process immigrant visas and didn't know what they were going to do with us (panic setting in we had an 11am flight booked out of Boston Airport) after much discussion they suggested we would be cleared of customs on the ship and were told to take a taxi to Logan and ask there if they could process us, we hurried of the ship collected our bags and took a taxi to the airport, traffic wasn't great but we arrived about 8.30 am and headed straight to immigration. More waiting, they didn't know what to do with us either as we hadn't arrived by air and they couldn't seem to find a carrier code to enter for the ship, finally someone else came into their office and took us through to the processing area, where our fingerprints were taken then passports stamped for entry (they just wrote in the stamp CR1) we just made our flight.
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Port of Entry Member Review #14527
Entry Date: 2009-09-14