that kind of thing might be fixable by DHS. https://www.dhs.gov/dhs-trip https://www.dhs.gov/dhs-trip I was constantly put into secondary inspection when i wa

that kind of thing might be fixable by DHS. https://www.dhs.gov/dhs-trip https://www.dhs.gov/dhs-trip I was constantly put into secondary inspection when i was on F1, and they were quoting that my visa from 4 years ago (j1) was inactive/expired. Well, of course it expired, it was a different visa. I put in a TRIP/Redress request, got contacted by them, and provided them some paperwork (passport, visa scans etc). It took 2-3 months of waiting, but at the end it got resolved. Now, they never send me to secondary inspection, except that first time after I got the greencard (but had to enter using EAD since the greencard was literally in my mailbox in the US). tl;dr; if you care about it, try putting a dhs request, it may be well worth it. It saved me hours at the border.