my tin hat is FIRMLY ON. the US has a 2 part immigration & customs process for border admission/international arrivals that doesn't allow for sterile transit (#post-9/11 homeland security measures), so everyone has to clear immigration at the first point of entry before getting on a connecting flight/moving through to customs. on visas:
When you arrive at the U.S. port of entry... a U.S. immigration officer will open your sealed packet and review it for completeness. If you have a connecting flight, be sure to allow several hours for this process... In the meantime, the officer will put a stamp in your passport to indicate that you are now a U.S. permanent resident… Your passport, with the visa and stamp, will serve as your temporary green card. (x paraphrased)
it’s not an official source but other websites all seemed to say the same thing, and the description of this logic makes sense to me - i.e. first flight/entry is the ‘green card activation trip’ where immigration docs are checked over & officers confirm where your green card should be sent. your passport is stamped as proof of completing the immigration inspection. so the port of entry doesn’t have to be your ~final destination~, bc once you've through immigration you can travel normally as a US resident. it also kinda implies that here:
If the CBP officer admits you, you will then have lawful permanent resident status and be able to live and work in the United States permanently. (from step 7) (x)
looking at the US Customs & Border Protection website, I couldn't see any info about needing to travel to a specific location/port of entry for visas either - if that was the norm there’d be something about it. this was literally the only thing i saw referencing it:
CBP "designated ports of entry for optimized processing of first-time Canadian applicants for admission in the TN or L-1 categories...[which] ensures a more efficient approach to processing the high volume of...applicants"... "you may continue to go to any port of entry...for processing" (x) - (so presumably not a norm for other visa types/ports of entry(?), just streamlining immigration delays at the US/Canada border)
🤷♀️ it's not clearly laid out anywhere from what I can tell, but customs procedures never are. all that to say, if george truly wanted to fly directly to twitchcon and say 🖕dream, he totally could. he would never tho & that's that
I love you, reblogging this to my other blog
its official he doesn't have to land in florida orlando
however I do think he highly likely will simply because dream has planned this for a while and I doubt george will want to arrive in sandeigo first as much as dream fears he would
if you disagree that's fine, but don't you dare do it out of doomposting
