USA Arrival

Well we have arrived in the USA, whew! Only one minor incident with our flights. On our day of departure from Brisbane we received a text message at 3.30 am in the morning advising us our flight from Brisbane to Sydney had been cancelled! After rubbing the sleep from our eyes it was onto the phone to Qantas to see what was going on. They attempted to book us on a much later flight saying you will still make your connection, yeah right, a quick calculation in our heads said we would be rushing it to connect, no way were we going to start the trip running from one terminal to another. In the end we got a flight 30 mins later than our original flight. Our first hurdle, and we have not even left Brisbane.

A couple of red wines in the Qantas club Sydney and we were ready for the "long" flight. All the usual departure procedures and we were heading down the runway for our 15 hour flight. As we had booked many months prior we booked our seats after a quick check of the Seat Guru web site. We chose the seats near the back, only two seats wide but in the area where the plane narrows, much more space, they were great plenty of room and only two seats in the row.

We arrived in Dallas mid afternoon some what weary but we were here that was the main thing, next step entry to the US. Now from what we had been told and researched we had a slim chance of a 12 month entry, forget it, with a five year visa you get 6 months and six months only. We would have to re apply by May 2013 no worries it was half expected. The only exception according to the immigration officer was a work visa and it had to be authorised by a supervisor. All our paperwork and preparation to plead a longer stay was wasted effort, oh well we might need it for the re application. One thing to note is when the flight crew issue you with your entry paperwork to fill out make sure if you are using a "non immigrant visa" as opposed to an ESTA visa you advise them, it's another form to fill out and will save you getting kicked out of the long line at immigration to go fill it out.

So now we are in Dallas overnight waiting for our connecting flight to Dayton OH.
Update, waiting for our flight to Dayton, Dallas airport is huge!


- Posted by RnR on their IPad

Location:Dallas Texas