It stars Alberto Ammann and Bruna Cusí alongside Ben Temple and Laura Gómez.

[1][2] Diego (a Venezuelan urbanist) and Elena (a Barcelona dancer) fly to the United States together, as she has won a Green Card Lottery visa and they are a pareja de hecho or common-law couple.

Arriving at Newark Airport passport control, as the nervous Diego misplaced the I-9 Declaration form, Elena fills out another.

However, after scanning their passports, the agent fingerprints them and takes their photos before escourting them to a secondary inspection area.

When asked to turn off and lock away his phone, Diego resists slightly as he had planned to see his brother in New York before continuing to Florida.

A female agent enters, and one by one asks for a series of documents, social media account information, again about birth dates.

Elena asks why they are repeating the same questions as those in the embassy, she is told they are checking due to new info they received.

The agent asks Diego about Kate, a Miami woman he had met online ten years his senior, with which he had almost entered the US on a fiancé visa with.

Written and directed by Venezuelan filmmakers Alejandro Rojas and Juan Sebastián Vásquez, Upon Entry is based on the helmers' personal experiences as immigrants.

[1] It was picked up by Charades and Anonymous Content ahead of its screening at the South by Southwest (SXSW) for its North-American premiere.

[4] Jonathan Holland of ScreenDaily considered that the film "plays out in that grey zone where legitimate questioning ends and the state torture manual begins", pointing out how generating "so much drama from what is basically 74 minutes of people talking across a table at one another is very clever film making indeed".