My husband who has been illegal in the USA left yesterday morning to go back to Peru. We are sending out his application this week.
After he left yesterday, I drove back to Canada with a bunch of his things. After the usual questions, which, I answered honestly, they asked me to pull over so they could verify the things I was carrying since they did not belong to me. They went thought pretty much everything and then one guy precisely seemed interested in finding an ID pieces that could have belong to him. I was carrying his expired passport and 2 credit/bank cards, which I voluntarily pointed to him.
After they finished the inspections, they asked me to park and to go to the immigration office. There I spoke with an other gentleman, who basically explained to me that I was not allowed crossing a border with such documents if they did not belonged to me and that they would keep them, and that if my husband ever wanted them, he could one day go to the border and they would give them back to him only. I pretty much told him I had no idea that this could be an issue.
After a few minutes, he came back to see me and told me that they had decided finally not to keep the documents as they believed my story basically, and that after all he was my husband not just anybody.
Now, all in all it was a nerve racking experience as I was not sure what was going on, but they were very nice and professional, but I am still a little worried about how this could affect his application, and my capabilities of crossing the border with out any hassle.. are they going to flag me ??
After he left yesterday, I drove back to Canada with a bunch of his things. After the usual questions, which, I answered honestly, they asked me to pull over so they could verify the things I was carrying since they did not belong to me. They went thought pretty much everything and then one guy precisely seemed interested in finding an ID pieces that could have belong to him. I was carrying his expired passport and 2 credit/bank cards, which I voluntarily pointed to him.
After they finished the inspections, they asked me to park and to go to the immigration office. There I spoke with an other gentleman, who basically explained to me that I was not allowed crossing a border with such documents if they did not belonged to me and that they would keep them, and that if my husband ever wanted them, he could one day go to the border and they would give them back to him only. I pretty much told him I had no idea that this could be an issue.
After a few minutes, he came back to see me and told me that they had decided finally not to keep the documents as they believed my story basically, and that after all he was my husband not just anybody.
Now, all in all it was a nerve racking experience as I was not sure what was going on, but they were very nice and professional, but I am still a little worried about how this could affect his application, and my capabilities of crossing the border with out any hassle.. are they going to flag me ??
