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Welcome to my rant. I have to vent. Stepdaughter finally approved to immigrate and flew to U.S. Point of Entry. No problems getting the visa stamped and as part of her move closed her bank account in China and brought with her a modest amount of cash (just enough to require her to fill out a FinCen 105 form https://www.fincen.gov/sites/default/files/shared/fin105_cmir.pdf which is required for 10 thousand US dollars or more). She hands the officer her FinCen 105. At this point she is taken to a room for almost 2 hours and all her luggage is opened while the Federal Border rent-a-cops go looking into her suitcases very thoroughly even going through her packed under pants looking for any unreported money (which of course she reported it all as required so they didn't find anything). They questioned her on some costume jewelry and her grandmother's wedding band and some Chinese herb medicine during which time they lost/misplaced her form FinCen 105 and subsequently accused her of not filing a form FinCen 105. Fortunately, I had her make a copy. Bottom line is she was detained an extra two hours, questioned pretty aggressively and while they slowly went through her two bags in a large room with windows, counting her money which everyone saw so she was afraid someone might rob her later. Then she just missed her connecting flight which we had thought 4 1/2 hours was plenty of time. So it ended up costing us a night in a nearby hotel and she also had the hassle to reschedule. Bottom Line: After waiting to legally immigrate to the USA for a decade, it made a very poor first impression on this new Immigrant. Our thinking is also that had she not done the right thing and followed the law and reported the money, she would not have been stopped and subjected to the 2 hour interrogation and search. She easily would have made her connecting flight. So follow the law, do the right thing, be a good citizen and comply and get punished. That's a great lesson for your kids to learn. Thousands come across the border illegally carrying drugs and illegal monies. Then they get welfare, Medicaid, Food Stamps and other government aid and (in my state) they even get to pay "in state" college tuitionMy stepdaughter applies legally, waits over a decade, follows the rules and is treated like a criminal. If she wants to go to college in my state, she pays triple cost out of state tuition as she hasn't been here long enough to meet instate residency.Welcome to the USA! Where the people who are honest are "punished" for following the regulations and the dishonest are not. -------------- On a related topic, in preparation for her move, a month before she left China, I sent her a sample FinCen 105 form. I had a very simple question on one of the lines on Form FinCen 105 (line 2 - do they want passport #, or Alien #, or both) so I contacted U.S..Dept of Treasury (it's a U.S. Treasury form), who said yes its their form but they really don't control it so referred me toU.S. Dept of Homeland Security, who said why are you asking us, it's a US Treasury form, moron? and referred me back toU.S. Dept of Treasury, who then referred me toU.S. Dept of State, who said "not us", referred me toU.S. Customs and Border patrol (which is part of the U.S. Dept of Homeland Securityand no one could ever give me an answer. During the 3 weeks I was shuffled from agency to agency, I finally found the answer on my own by going to the library. Kudos to U.S. Dept of State and U.S. Customs and Border Patrol for returning my calls within 2 days even if they did not have an answer. Shame on U.S. Dept of Treasury and U.S. Dept of Homeland Security (main agency website) as I had to call, provide information, call again and provide information. Don't these Departments keep a call database? Apparently not..... It kind of makes you wonder what happens to the info if anyone calls them to report something that looks suspicious, doesn't it?End of Rant: You may return to your normal programming. =============================================== Next week its off to the Social Security Dept as (I just read in another recent thread here), Dan advised "Do not assume checking the box on the visa application will generate the SSN card" (foolish us, that's exactly what we assumed). So it's off to the local SSA office to apply for a card in person. Hopefully that will be an uneventful trip and I will have nothing further to rant/vent about.