| Names |
 Point of Entry  |
Entry |
Got EAD Stamp? |
Biometrics Taken? |
Harassment |
Comments. List anything unique to your case. |
Updated Last |
   Mia & Keith
|
Detroit |
2011-08-23 |
Yes,Passport Stamp |
Yes |
 - High |
To read about my experience, go to: http://connected2christ.wordpress.com/love-across-the-globe-2/the-us-immigration-and-the-processing-that-come-with-it/point-of-entry-experience/ |
2013-06-20 |
 Mira & Bob
|
Detroit |
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- High |
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2014-03-26 |
 Annalyn & Kenton
|
Detroit |
2009-11-12 |
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- High |
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2013-07-04 |
 Chris & Blair
|
Detroit |
2014-06-11 |
Yes,Passport Stamp |
Yes |
- High |
My POE experience at the Detroit-Windsor Tunnel in Detroit was very easy. Being a lifelong resident of Windsor, I've crossed that border, it seems, a thousand times, so there were no surprises, nor any confusion.
I pulled up to the border, car full of as many of my belongings as I could fit (and an itemized list of what was packed). The officer asked my citizenship. I handed him my passport and said 'Canadian'. He asked where I lived. I told him I was moving to Ohio, and that I was immigrating today. He asked if I had my immigration packet with me, and I said yes. He radioed ahead and said 'Immigration packet, lane 4', and walked my car to secondary inspection.
I parked my car, grabbed all my documents and sealed packet (the officer still had my passport at this point) and was escorted into secondary inspection. The 'greeting' officer took my passport and secondary inspection ticket, wrote my name, reason for secondary and intake time on his intake sheet and asked me to have a seat. It wasn't terribly busy this particular day. Only about a half dozen people waiting. After about 25-30 minutes, an officer behind the counter asked the greeting officer what was next. He replied "Want do do an immigrant visa?" The officer said "Sure", and my name was called.
I walked around to the counter where my officer was stationed. He was quite friendly, even joked around a little. I handed the officer my packet and passport. He opened the packet and started going through the documents. He kept flipping through and looking at the doctor's comments in my medical exam all confused, flipping back through and going back to the medical. He looked at me and said "Seriously? Why would he put a DUI from 11 years ago on here? That means nothing at all." I said " I know! He tried telling me I would probably be disallowed because of that, even after I told him I've literally crossed a hundred times with it, and was told it isn't of any concern." He and the officer next to him had a little laugh about it. He stamped the documents and my passport with an admission stamp, came around to my side of the counter with a form for me to sign, took my right index to fingerprint and said "Just relax and let me do all the work with this". He looked at the print and said to his neighbouring officer, "Look at that! I think that's one of the best I've seen. It's nearly perfect. Man, I'm good!" and he left to get me a wipe to clean the ink off. After he left, his neighbouring officer flipped the sheet and asked me to fingerprint the other side as well. He told me they're supposed to do both sides, but his buddy probably just didn't know. I fingerprinted the other side myself, and said to the neighbouring officer, "Man, don't tell your buddy, but I think mine is actually better than his..." The officer laughed. My original officer came back, and the two went back and forth for a few minutes on whether the second print was needed (turns out it's just a backup in case the first one doesn't work for the green card; one time - the last time the neighbouring officer didn't take a second print - he had to call a woman all the way back up to Detroit from SOUTHERN FLORIDA just to redo a single index fingerprint). My officer, after being convinced that the second print was a good idea, handed me my passport, complete with endorsed visa (he made it valid for two years instead of the one year the temporary CR-1 supposed to be), and said "You're all set. Have a good one!"
The whole process, aside from the half hour or so I waited, took maybe 15 minutes and was painless. I was in and out of customs in under an hour - not the 2-3 hours I had been lead to believe. It was quite painless, and isn't something to get all worked up about. It's purely a formality - a couple questions, some data entry, a fingerprint and signature, and done - at least in my case. |
2017-02-24 |
 Craig & Lindsey
|
Detroit |
2014-11-25 |
Yes,Passport Stamp |
Yes |
- High |
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2017-12-11 |
 Rhea & Rich
|
Detroit |
2014-01-28 |
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- High |
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2015-02-04 |
 Nenita & Gene
|
Detroit |
2013-11-01 |
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No |
- High |
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2013-11-04 |
 Vania & Chris
|
Detroit |
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- High |
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2017-08-22 |
 J & J
|
Detroit |
2014-04-15 |
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Yes |
- High |
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2017-03-19 |
 Marilou & Michael
|
Detroit |
2013-09-13 |
Yes,Passport Stamp |
Yes |
- High |
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2020-09-27 |
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