Originally Posted by
RichardKenner
In this particular case, it was that his Green Card was in his pocket, but passport buried in his bag and he was too lazy to fish for it. After receiving the comment he did, he got "unlazy".
And I just asked another co-worker if he ever tried to enter the US with just his Green Card. He said yes, but he was also asked for his passport.
The officer very likely will ask every time. That is because it is extremely unlikely that the passenger does not have his passport with him. As I explained earlier it is because usually the passenger needed that passport to get into the country that he was going to. That does not mean that it is an automatic secondary if the passenger doesn't have the passport. The officer wants the passport to stamp the admission stamp in. This is important if the passenger decides to naturalize later down the line because the stamps in the passport are one of the things that is used to determine if physical presence requirements have been met. However, this is becoming less important as computer systems continue to become more sophisticated.
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