themartinez
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I am quite surprised to see that most of the people that entered in Houston have not much to say. In my opinion, although it wasn't that bad, it was worse than the interview process.
When my family and I arrived there was a big line because of all the flights that were arriving. We probably stayed in it for 40 minutes before an Immigration Officer was available for us.
The first part of immigration was pretty ok: the Officer was nice, asked the usual questions you get when entering the US, and some others about my engagement, but all in a friendly manner.
The part I did not like was after that, on the actual immigration room (?). I waited another 40 minutes with Officers that were just laughing between themselves and being very rude to people in the room - although it wasn't directed to me I did not like the way they were acting. I noticed my papers (probably with other K1 and spouses visas) were the last in their stack of papers.
After 30 minutes a guard picked them up and took it to the back room, and called me after a few minutes. He didn't ask any different questions, but it seemed as if he was trying to discourage me about moving to the US and marrying an American, because my culture was way too different. And then he said I had 90 days to get married or runaway (which I thought was funny lol).
The part I hated the most was when I had to hand in that blue slip to the guards (right before entering the connections/check out area). He asked me the same question as the other two officers, which was "When are you getting married?", and I gave him the same answer as before: "Not quite sure. Sometime in between the next two weeks, after I settle and get my marriage license", which hadn't been a problem before, but he decided to give me THE hardest time about it. I answered that because every other time I entered the US, my policy was always not to lie, specially to Immigration Officers.
Anyhow, if I could say something about that, it would be: just have a date (even if it isn't the one you intend on) to answer everyone.
Thank God it is over 
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Port of Entry Member Review #16024
Entry Date: 2015-10-28