jenyadenise
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My husband and I (USC) flew into Dallas together. We had a four hour layover between flights. At immigration and passport control, we entered the US Citizen and Resident line. There were a lot of people but the line moved quickly. When we reached the front of the line, we went to the immigration desk together and I told the officer that my husband was entering for the first time with his permanent resident visa packet (IR-1/CR-1). The officer was friendly and took our passports and the packet. As he was looking at our passports and entering stuff into the computer, he asked us how we met and we had a brief conversation about that. Then, he said, "Well, let's get this done!" and took us to the immigrant processing room and told us to wait until his name was called.
The room was pretty full... about 25 people waiting. Lots of people were being called to talked to an officer in the back but the processing seemed very slow. Several people were frustrated because they had missed their connecting flights. We were a little worried, but after about an hour an officer came out with my husband's passport and some papers. He took his fingerprints and explained that the stamp in his passport was his temporary green card. He confirmed the address where the social security number and Green card would be sent. And, then said, "Welcome to the US."
It took about an hour and a half from the time we got off the plane until the time we were done with immigration. We caught our connecting flight with no problem.
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Port of Entry Member Review #15478
Entry Date: 2013-07-11