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Hello, I am finally moving to the states on the 20th this month I have however a question about bringing prescription meds with me. I have pcos for which I have been taking a specific type of the birth control pill. My doctor kindly prescribed 5 packs or 15 months worth of the pill, which is obviously way more than the 90 days worth of they talk about on the TSA website. I probably won't need all of it as we are thinking about starting a family soon with my husband, but I'd rather be safe than sorry. Where I come from, we get the pills in strips with the name of the meds on the back of it. My name is not on it and my prescription was a qr code that became disfunctional once scanned at the pharmacy. How should I pack this? I'm worried they will be suspicious at the amount and confiscate it. Im thinking spliting it between my carry-on and my two checked begs, that way I have at least something left when I arrive? But that would probably seem even more suspicious to them 😕 I am also bringing some other meds, some prescription and some not, mainly pain killers used for period pain/back pain, allergies etc. but don't have the prescription for that either. I wouldn't even bother bringing these but I'd rather have it in case I need it and can avoid a (expensive) trip to doctor's in the states, at least for a while. Any advice or personal experience will be greatly appreciated 🙂 Thank you!

Is it necessary to buy a roundtrip ticket for the flight entering the US after the interview to obtain the green card? We, of course, only want a one way but I am not sure if there is a problem checking in for the flight in Ecuador when we don't technically get the green card until going through immigrations in the US.

Trying to get flights to Guyana for visa interview. Waiting almost 3 years and not able to find a flight. Visa is required for all layover countries.

Hello all! Me and my husband have been slaving away at preparing the I-130 package and I just realized I included a lot of screenshots throughout the document. For example, my husband lived in Canada with me for a year and had a Canadian bank account so we often sent "e-transfers" to eachother. I went through my bank account on the app and took screenshots of the transfers and included several on a page in word. The screenshots include the date, my checking account #, the transaction number, the amount sent/received, and the name of my husband. Is it ok to provide screenshots of this instead of an actual print each e-transfer statement (which I wouldn't even know how to access)? I put them on a page together because I didn't want there to be too many pages to go through because I included about 12 e transfers alone Also, we have sent money through paypal when he moved back to the US. Should I provide screenshots of the transfers between eachother that include the date, amount, and transaction ID? Or should I directly print the paypal transaction receipt and print it as its own page instead of including screenshots of a few of the receipts on a page in the word document? For this I also didn't want the officers to have to go through so many pages because if I print each receipt (which would be one page each), there would be about 20 pages of this as opposed to just 4 pages with several of the screenshot of the receipts on one page. The screenshots are just a screenshot of the receipt so it wouldn't look any different if i directly printed them. Also, when it comes to flights: 1. We have been visiting each other for 7 years now. I was able to find screenshots of past flight booking confirmations in my camera roll. Should i include these screenshots? Otherwise I don't have any proof of flights from when we visited eachother in the early years of our relationship because I don't have the boarding passes or email receipts to these flights 2. For the more recent flights that I can find in my email, would it be okay to take a screenshot of the email and include it on a page in the word document? Or should I print it directly from my email?

Just wondering if anybody here have experience bringing their bikes to US by air, using the airlines extra baggage service ? How did you package it to avoid minimum damage ? Also how did you disassemble it ? It is a Giant road bike and has an aluminum frame. Many Thanks Everyone!!