Point of Entry--Can you go through

[bobmal99]

Hello Everyone,

 

I have heard several different opinions on this question. However, does anyone definitely know, if when flying back from China, can we (american citizen) go through the same line (immigrant) our fiances go through?? This would make it easier for the fiance, and possibly even help getting the Employment Authorization Card.

 

Also if there are going to be any problems, this is where they will start!!!

[Joseph-1]

Hello Everyone,

 

I have heard several different opinions on this question.  However, does anyone definitely know, if when flying back from China, can we (american citizen) go through the same line (immigrant) our fiances go through?? This would make it easier for the fiance, and possibly even help getting the Employment Authorization Card. 

 

Also if there are going to be any problems, this is where they will start!!!

Hello,

As I was coming through all the border from china to HK to New York,

I asked questions. I was told that as long as my girl has her Visa she will have no problems. She will take a courier flight from HK. I may have to send her a copy of her ticket to transit HK. But otherwise I have been told that having the visa is all the difference.

 

Joseph

[KandY]

I know that in the process, she will be pulled to the side where immigration officers will go through her packet and if its a POE that issues Employment Authorization cards, then she will have her photo taken also. So up to this point, you may be able to, but then you will indeed have to be seperated.

[bobmal99]

I know that in the process, she will be pulled to the side where immigration officers will go through her packet and if its a POE that issues Employment Authorization cards, then she will have her photo taken also.  So up to this point, you may be able to, but then you will indeed have to be seperated.

Thank you Kandy, so where are you in this process??

 

Bob M.

[tparrent]

In Chicago you can go through the same line (non-USC) and then you will be told to wait in a special area for processing. You can sit there with your fiancee while they do mysterious things with the paperwork. You do not need to be separated at any point.

 

Of course, this assumes that you are polite. I have always found the Chicago INS/Customs officials to be polite, helpful and efficient.

 

I have also seen what happens when someone shows some bad attitude. In the best case you would end up sitting there for hours. In the worst case, they'll have you in handcuffs before you can say "sorry"! I've seen both cases.

[bobmal99]

Thanks but unfortunately I will probably be entering at SF intl..

[hong]

Can anyone share the experience of going through Dallas as a Port of Entry?

 

I will come back to US through Dallas airport with my family next January.

 

Any experience or advise to share will be much appreciated.

 

Hong

[LaoMao]

Hello Everyone,

 

I have heard several different opinions on this question.  However, does anyone definitely know, if when flying back from China, can we (american citizen) go through the same line (immigrant) our fiances go through?? This would make it easier for the fiance, and possibly even help getting the Employment Authorization Card. 

 

Also if there are going to be any problems, this is where they will start!!!

There will be no problem for you to go through the same line with your fiancee if you don't mind to wait. It will be a problem in the other way: if your fiancee goes with you in the citizen line.

[Guest Yang and Ling]

This past August as I was returning from Shanghai, I posed this very question to a Passport Specialist at the San Francisco Airport. Specifically, I asked him if I could accompany my fiancee, who would be carrying a K-1 visa through the same check point, and which was the appropriate point of entry to check her documents? After reflecting a moment, he recommended that she enter through the "Visitors" gate (San Francisco distiguishes between Immigrant and Non-immigrant visas), and that in his judgment it would be fine for me to accompany her through the same point of entry.

 

Anyway, when we receive her clearance, I intend to follow this advice and hope that we can maneuver through this potentially anxious milestone without incident.

 

Best wishes!

[bobmal99]

Thanks Yang & Ling. Bob & Lili, Boston & Shanghai..