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#2000 BackToUSA
It is 100% worth it. CBP has streamlined so many things they do when you submit the old way. They have to do secondary checks with various agencies (FBI, etc) and when you send in a paper application they do this by mail!
When you submit by Esafe, the checks are all done online immediately and the ARO officer who adjudicates your file simply needs to make a decision.
Look at this document:
https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/privacy-pia-cbp057-march2019.pdf
Thanks for updates on the Esafe, it will be awhile before it comes my way..but sounds like it is definitely going to save time on US Customs side. Hopefully, the RCMP, and court houses will catch up..as some court houses are still taking 6 weeks to 6 months...I have to say, I am surprised that the FBI are completing checks so soon. Immigration requests are still taking 12 - 14 weeks.
Oct 31, 2019.
Here is a recent update on wait time.
I applied for my I-192 Waiver on August 9th 2019. It came in the mail today.
So it took just under 3 months.
I applied at the Edmonton Airport.
It is my fourth Waiver, and they have all been for 5 years.
(Yes the USA gov has been money grabbing me for 20 years now!)
I had a minor Marijuana charge from 25 years ago, getting my visa seems easy as long as I submit the paperwork correctly.
I am writing today to help other in my situation, and support this forum and the great people who volunteer information here free of charge.
In applying at the Edmonton airport, the instructions are different that you will find online. You need reference letters for example. Do what they require at the location you submit, not just what you read online.
Some changes have occurred over the last 20 years, and it is always nerve racking that I will screw up the paperwork.
I received some great advice from a professional based out of Saskatoon/Regina Named Michelle.
She is often on here helping others.
If you need professional help, you should take this recommendation to heart. She is a good person and knows her stuff.
Michelle
306.531.8886
And from reading other posts John Rodgers(also trustworthy), who I believe is out of Ontario, and will vouch for Saskatchewan Michelle (306.531.8886).
In my letter, the U.S gov also provided me a small card/pamphlete to advertise the online application system. I am in Edmonton ,so I couldn't use it this time(Need hand in documents in Toronto). But would imagine in 5 years time, I should be able to apply online.
Once again, to everyone on this free forum.
Thanks for your hard work.
Hope this post helps someone else.
And contact the people I mentioned above if you need real professionals.
@bcborder10 great details! You answered all the questions before being asked.
@bcborder10, thank you for the reference, and glad that both John and I could help you.
John, do the Custom Officers where you are; refuse to accept applications "because in their opinion, a person doesn't need a waiver?".
This happens quite often here at the Saskatchewan / US Borders.
Even when a client has been denied previously at another border, and has the paperwork showing this, a Custom Officer will refuse to accept the application based on "their opinion". This obviously is very frustrating for both me and my clients.
This does not happen at the larger offices, such as Calgary or Edmonton International Airport.
I am really hoping that the E-safe program will eliminate this "guess work" by these smaller Custom Offices.
@Michelle it happens frequently.
I tell the clients this; 1 guy denied you entry, and another is now saying "you don't need a waiver". In 5 years when you have a $5000 trip booked to Hawaii, what will you tell them when they stop you again?
I always tell them to go back to the border and ask the same guy "can I have your card or a letter in writing that says I am admissible?" Then suddenly...the story changes. They take the waiver no problem after that because NOW they aren't so sure. If your 100% sure...make it official. If you won't do that, then TAKE THE WAIVER.
For anyone at the border facing this, $585 USD will allow you to know IN WRITING. Homeland Security will not give you a waiver just because you applied. If they do not find you inadmissible, they will send you a September Letter. You will carry that for the rest of your life. If they grant you a waiver....then you NEEDED a waiver.
I forward my phones so that when a client is at the border they can call the office and get me even after hours. I tell them NOT TO LEAVE but to call if the Homeland Security guy tells him this. When I get them on the phone, and ask for their card or a letter, suddenly they completely change their tune.
I am all for a client not needing a waiver and avoiding the $585, but not because 1) The officer THINKS they don't need it 2.) the officer just tells them this because they don't want to be bothered processing the paperwork.
Canadians view the Homeland Security guys as some sort of bastion of honesty and virtue and knowledge. They are just border guards who are giving their OPINION. Sometimes they are correct and trying to be helpful. Sometimes they are well intended and just wrong. And sometimes they are at the end of their shift and want to get rid of you.
If one officer denies you entry, you want a result IN WRITING. That will last you FOREVER. "um, there was this guy, kinda tall with nice brown eyes who told me 6 years ago I didn't need a waiver. Maybe he left a note of something?" That's sheer stupidity.
The system is not fair and we all need to stand up to corrupt politicians.
Border guards are not immigration lawyers or lawmakers. They don't even know the laws in effect. It's quite concerning.
The best policy is either to wait for a pardon before travelling to the US or remove anything incriminating in CIPC. Unfortunately, bureaucrats are human and errors are quite common.
Bottom line, if you can pay, then anything is possible.
#2007 was not me posting.
#2008, I knew it was not you John, as this is not your policy, nor mine to tell people to apply for a Pardon before traveling to the USA..it is complete nonsense to give this advise.. I wonder if the rogue person on here actually belongs to one of the competitor Pardon / Waiver Services..as "applying for a Pardon" to travel to the USA is the #1 selling feature they use to gain clients?" It would make sense...
If you look at my past posts, I have always claimed that people who get a pardon first have no issues travelling to the US afterwards.
Please do not make contradictory statements.
#2010 not me posting.
Not only not me posting, but the person posting sounds ridiculous. I don't want to make assumptions, but this sounds like HatBootsHatsBoots. Same syntax, same moralizing, same stupid statements like "Unfortunately, bureaucrats are human and errors are quite common.".
What?
Do you have any inkling (or perhaps something you've heard) about when the eSAFE program may be offered at other Ports of Entry?
As for your post at #2012 I would venture a good guess that your "assumptions" have a great deal of veracity to them.
Wait for it... the muppet will now post something (nonsensical dross perhaps) under my name within the next couple days. I'll assure you now it won't be me... Nor will I'll be posting anything then deleting it in that time frame.
Adelaide, why does a "child molester" like yourself want to gain entry to the US? Haven't you made a fool of yourself already on this forum?
Whatever John Rogers says is pure trash. This guy is out to scam you. What type of fraudulent business are you running John?
@Adelaide I am sure if you research eSAFE, they may have a time period when the 'pilot project' is due to end. At that time I assume they will expand it, because it seems to have been very successful (except for the system being down at the airport constantly).
I am sure it is here to stay.
John, have you done an application for a client yet on the E-safe program? I am wondering how they submit the court documents, and other paperwork? I am assuming it must be scanned and attached? I am wondering as I do not have a scanner yet, but might be something I need to look at...
Here is the latest version of the G-325A; although It was suppose to be replaced by the latest I-192 Form, it looks like it will still be a requirement. I will continue to send it with my client's application package.
https://www.uscis.gov/g-325a?utm_source=rss-feed&utm_campaign=Forms%20Updates
Adelaide - out here in Kelowna, BC the closest eSafe POE is in Blaine which is about a 4 hour drive. I'm not sure what part of the country you're in but depending on how fast you want your application to be processed it may be a good idea to take the trip. I'm not sure how it is out East. I hear eSafe is processing applications in as little as 10 days. Blaine seems to be open 24/7. I would imagine that they will add more POE eSafe processing in 2020.
I'm not sure what George S is going on about in #2014 since as a woman it's highly unlikely that you'd be a "child molester". That made me curious and I read through some of the posts here. There appears to be some fool - a child - with a bunch of aliases on here posting absolute bs.
I'm gonna guess that somehow you've "molested" this "child" INTELLECTUALLY and VERBALLY telling from your beautiful dressing downs and now his snowflake self is completely butthurt that he got owned... got owned by a woman.
Anyway check out the eSafe website. I could see them adding yyc to the list in the near future since that would probably best serve the prairie provinces.
@Michelle I have had a client who did it after i prepared everything, answer was in 9 days after they were fingerprinted.
I have not been submitting the G325A since they changed the forms, and not a single problem. I know your so detail oriented you won't listen to me anyways (LOL) but you don't need t submit it any longer. Stop killing trees! Or let me appeal to your business sense....toner is expensive!
@Magnus I agree with everything you said.
@2019, John...LOL..Thanks!...I did try to "not submit" the G-325 and Customs had a fit..they did at least allow me to type up one fast and fax it to them, while my client was still there...so..not doing that again...And I so agree...I think about the trees and the toner...LOL...How is the weather your way???..It is only November and we are in the -30..with lots of snow......going to be a very long winter...
