Arrival with family - USC or visitors lane?

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Hannah7

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Hi, I am about to take a trip overseas for couple months. On the way back, my parents would like to come with me for visit for a few weeks and then leave. Of course, I am LPR but they are non-immigrants.

I am curious, when we arrive together at an airport, can we go through the same lane same booth?
 
You can try to take them with you through the LPR queue, whether that is lumped together with the citizen queue, or is by itself. A better bet would be for you to join THEM in the visitor queue.
 
You should go to the citizens and residents line, they go into the visitors line.

If you go in the same line, that would remind the officer that they're the parents of an LPR, which would increase their risk of being refused entry, especially if this is their first trip since you became an LPR.
 
I am speaking from personal experience, in 2010 I (US citizen) brought my mom on visit visa and used the citizens/LPR line without any issues.My mom was given 6 months stay. If the visitor is elderly and needs assistance in getting through the interview process or fingerprinting usually there should not be problem in using the LPR line. This was at SFO.
 
nkm-oct23 said:
I am speaking from personal experience, in 2010 I (US citizen) brought my mom on visit visa and used the citizens/LPR line without any issues.My mom was given 6 months stay. If the visitor is elderly and needs assistance in getting through the interview process or fingerprinting usually there should not be problem in using the LPR line. This was at SFO.
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There's no guarantee that the OP will have the same luck.

Having said that, parents of LPR are less likely to have a problem than parents of USC.
 
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