I've never received a clearance to anywhere but the destination airport.
Filing to an IAF might meet some psychic need, but ATC is going to put you
where they want you, not to what you filed for.

Bob Gardner

"john smith" wrote in message
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Did you file to the IAF in the original flight plan?
If you wanted to do an instrument approach at your destination, you
should have told the controller the clearance needed to be to that point
and not directly to the airport. If they clear you directly to the
airport, you can expect a visual approach if the airport is not the IAF.

Don Brown wrote about something similar in his last AvWeb column.