| Names |
 Point of Entry  |
Entry |
Got EAD Stamp? |
Biometrics Taken? |
Harassment |
Comments. List anything unique to your case. |
Updated Last |
   Derrick & Amy
|
CDN-USA Border |
2010-05-24 |
No |
No |
 - High |
|
2010-10-16 |
 Miranda & John
|
CDN-USA Border |
2009-06-15 |
No |
Yes |
- High |
|
2015-01-12 |
 Matthew & Tiffanney
|
CDN-USA Border |
2010-08-10 |
No |
No |
- High |
|
2021-06-08 |
 XiaoYue & Jason
|
CDN-USA Border |
2010-03-27 |
No |
Yes |
- High |
Entered through Peace Arch at Blaine, WA. No issues with crossing the border. |
2016-03-07 |
 Roland & Vineeta
|
CDN-USA Border |
2010-03-12 |
Yes,Passport Stamp |
Yes |
- High |
Electronic Processing |
2013-04-05 |
 Beverley & Kevin
|
CDN-USA Border |
2010-08-27 |
No |
Yes |
- High |
So I finally got my visa on Thursday, wasted no time at all to get to Kevin had my PoE the very next day since my stuff was mostly packed and my mom had the day off work.
She picked gate lucky 13, she apparently didn't even notice but I did . The CO there was giving everyone a hard time as far as we could tell, line was hella slow and the guy ahead of us had his trunk searched and at one point, we thought the CO was taking away his car keys, but after what looked like a long lecture he got everything back and it was our turn. My mom said straight away "I'm driving my daughter and she's entering on a visa". He looked at my passport, and obviously had no idea how a K-1 visa worked, he asked me "how long are you staying, when are you getting married, why are you in such a rush to get here if you don't even have a wedding date?!" The date will happen whenever we get the rings and license made up, both things we are doing TOGETHER obviously, but that wasn't good enough for him. I'm sure he asked a couple more ridiculous questions that I don't recall, also he said "you have THIRTY days to get married on this visa, you know" I wasn't gonna bother arguing with him so I just said yes. Also asked if I had the advance parole papers with me yet, I said no and showed him the orange envelope from the consulate, he said "okay you take that upstairs." He took our passports away, wrote us out a little slip of paper with our license plate number on it and number of occupants in the car, told us where to park and to walk along the white lines to get into the building and to go to the second floor.
We went up and sat down, there were about 20 other people in there and officers coming in and out. Waited maybe about 15 minutes before my name was called, and my mom came with me to the inner room. I was bracing myself for another interrogation like the interview, but the guy who dealt with us was REALLY nice and friendly, thankfully. He also had no idea how to deal with a K-1 though. He had a printed list of instructions of what to do, opened my orange package and tried to match up the papers there with his instructions, but he had a hard time with it and kept asking other people for help. Ironically enough the guy who helped him most was the officer who denied me at my first visit! Don't think he recognized me though.. lol. While we were waiting for him to come over, my CO asked just casually how long the visa had taken to process, I said "from the first application? over a year" and explained to him that I had just finished over 3 months of AP, he seemed pretty sympathetic that I hadn't been able to see Kevin the entire time!
At one point he asked if I had a driver's license or any other ID with me, but I hadn't brought anything in except the envelope and my x-ray (which he had no interest in). So he got my mom's car keys and I told him where he could find my wallet. He was down there for probably a good 20 minutes. As we found out later he searched through my boxes and bags since he left them all open, seemed especially interested in the folder I had containing copies of our entire file from start to finish, he left it on my seat lol. At any rate we saw him come back upstairs and photocopy my visa and my health card since I don't have a driver's license, but then he disappeared for probably another half hour. We got to stay in the inner room where people were being questioned though, lots of entertainment from people getting denied entry or trying to enter with improper ID.. I was thankful we were there for a GOOD reason.
Finally he came back, said everything had been approved and we just had to pay $6 USD for the I-94. We went around to the cashier, my mom had forgetten to bring any American money so she ended up paying $6 on credit lol, a little embarrassed and the cashier laughed at her. She gave our passports back and my ID, then my mom realized she hadn't gotten her car keys back, so the cashier went and found them.. then asked what kind of car she had and how she liked it, they had quite a long conversation about cars while I was eager to get going and call Kevin (we were in there nearly 2 hours total). Finally got away, we ran into the mean CO from the booth downstairs, he actually stopped and asked how it went for us.
Partway to Kevin's, my mom asked where I put the I-94. I was so confused, expecting it to be a bigger sheet like every other document we've had and I didn't remember the cashier actually giving it to us, so I panicked and dug through everything we'd been carrying, then I called the number that was on the receipt the cashier gave us. Got forwarded to different numbers probably 4-5 times, I said we paid for the I-94 but didn't receive it, so whoever answered the phone at customs took my name and cell number and said he'd figure out what happened. 5 minutes later he called me back and said "um, we have a photocopy of the I-94 in your passport, you have it with you." I looked and sure enough it said I-94 on it... Okay I had a blonde moment, but glad we didn't have to go back and try to sort THAT out.
|
2013-05-04 |
 James & Kate
|
CDN-USA Border |
2010-03-10 |
|
Yes |
- High |
|
2011-12-19 |
 Karen & Jason
|
CDN-USA Border |
2009-11-13 |
No |
Yes |
- High |
|
2013-02-12 |
 Mathew & Kayla
|
CDN-USA Border |
2010-05-15 |
No |
No |
- High |
|
2017-08-30 |
 Daryl & Kim
|
CDN-USA Border |
2010-04-02 |
No |
Yes |
- High |
Cleared at Calgary airport. Immigration officer was leary about me traveling on a standby ticket, but was very nice. Entire process took about 10 minutes. |
2012-05-27 |
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