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Returning after Holiday Visa expires

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  • 03-06-2012 6:51pm
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    kerryman10
    Registered Users Posts: 87 ✭✭


    Hi everyone.

    As far as I know the maximum lenght to stay on a holiday visa to the USA is 3 months but how long does one have to wait before they can return again. Can someone leave before the 3 months expire only to return again a day later and stay for another three months???

    Hopefully someone can clarify this for me.

    Thanks.


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    silja
    Registered Users Posts: 2,921 ✭✭✭silja


    The general guideline to not have trouble is to spend more time outside the US than inside each time, and no more than 180 days in any rolling year- so if you spent 6 weeks on holidays, wait at least 6 weeks to return and you *should* be given the full 90 days.

    However, it all depends on the officer you get at immigration at the airport. If you have been travelling a lot, or are close to the guidelines, or just look odd, or the officer has a bad day, they may give you a hard time or even deny you- they have broad powers. So if you travel a lot, it is a good idea to bring "ties to home"; ie proof you will return home such as a rental agreement, proof of university enrollment for next term or a letter from the employer stating when you are expected back.

    In my own case, when my now-husband was my boyfriend in the USA, I travelled a lot, often only for a long weekend when I could get a cheap flight. One October I'd been in the US 5 times that year (for a total of less than 8 weeks), and got stopped at the airport and taken into secondary inspection. Interviewed for an hour, they looked through my bags etc. Told me to be careful if I wanted to travel more often, and rather than the usual 90 days only stamped my passport for a day longer than my return flight 6 days later. I travelled .again for Christmas, nervous, brought lots pf ties to home... and they barely glanced at my passport that time/

    You get 90 days on the visa waiver btw, which isn't always 3 months.


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