Inspection upon arrival in the United States

Aug 07, 2016 News

By Attorney Gail Seeram
United States Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is an agency within the Department of Homeland Security. The agency is responsibility for keeping America’s borders safe and secure while encouraging legitimate travel and trade. To accomplish this, CBP officers must screen all arriving people, goods and vehicles to make sure they meet all requirements for entry into the United States.
The Congress of the United States has authorized CBP to enforce all homeland security-related laws and laws of other federal agencies at the border and to conduct searches and examinations necessary to assure compliance with those laws. CBP’s broad authority therefore allows them to conduct searches of people and their baggage, cargo, and means of transportation entering the United States.
If you are subject to inspection, you should be treated in a courteous, digniûed, and professional manner. The CBP officer may request speciûc, detailed information about your travel, may inspect your baggage (including electronic devices), or may conduct a personal search. A search may not be made on any discriminatory basis (e.g., solely based on race, gender, religion, ethnic background). You may always ask to speak with a CBP supervisor if you feel you are being treated improperly.
CBP collects information about people traveling into and out of the United States. This includes basic biographic data, travel documents and their unique identiûers, where the traveler is staying in the U.S. and the planned purpose for the traveler’s visit. This information may be collected from a traveler at a port of entry, or, in the case of international air and sea travel, it may be collected before a traveler’s arrival in or departure from the U.S. This information is used to determine the admissibility of aliens and to effectively and efficiently enforce U.S. laws at the border.
WHY YOU MAY BE CHOSEN FOR SECONDARY INSPECTION (QUESTIONED SEPARATELY IN AN OFFICE)
* Your travel documents are incomplete, or you do not have the proper documents or visa;
* You have previously violated one of the laws CBP enforces;
* You name matches a person of interest in one of the government’s enforcement databases; or
* You have been selected for a random search.
It is at this point of entry into the United States that non-immigrant visas (such as a B-1/B-2 tourist visa) and lawful permanent residents are inspected, to determine whether they will be admitted to the United States. There are various reasons and laws that may be applied to find such a person inadmissible into the United States. The holder of a visa or permanent resident card (green card) is not automatically allowed to enter the U.S. – he or she must be inspected and found to be admissible into the U.S. by CBP officers. If a non-immigrant visa holder is found inadmissible and not allowed in the U.S. then they will be turned away at the port of entry. If a permanent resident is found inadmissible (due to length of stay outside the U.S. or criminal grounds) then they will be paroled into the U.S., pending removal proceedings at the Immigration Court.
For more information, contact Gail Law Firm:
Email: Gail@GailLaw.com
Phone: 1-877-GAIL-LAW or 407-292-7730
www.MyOrlandoImmigrationLawyer.com

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