Do you know someone that has been refused entry?

[floridadreamvilla.co.uk]

I think that's a bit of a gerealisation - we come over 4-5 times a year on the VISA Waiver and do get asked about our jobs but never have to prove anything. Why would they not just take your word for it, unless there was something else that made them suspicious?

I think the fact that her boyfriend had a H1B visa, which allows himn to stay in the US has a lot more to do with why she was questioned - they would naturally have been suspicious that she wanted to come over to live with her boyfriend in the US. This will not apply to many (if any) people coming over to the US on vacation so is a red herring.

<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by chrizzy100
My friend was stopped and held in an office for a few hours on her last trip before marrying her boyfriend who lived here on an H1B....she had been over 2 times already that year...the lawyer had told her to always bring proof of job etc in England.....they let her in telling her not to re-entre...until she was married and on her new visa......
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[chrizzy100]

<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by floridadreamvilla.co.uk
I think that's a bit of a gerealisation - we come over 4-5 times a year on the VISA Waiver and do get asked about our jobs but never have to prove anything. Why would they not just take your word for it, unless there was something else that made them suspicious?

I think the fact that her boyfriend had a H1B visa, which allows himn to stay in the US has a lot more to do with why she was questioned - they would naturally have been suspicious that she wanted to come over to live with her boyfriend in the US. This will not apply to many (if any) people coming over to the US on vacation so is a red herring.

<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by chrizzy100
My friend was stopped and held in an office for a few hours on her last trip before marrying her boyfriend who lived here on an H1B....she had been over 2 times already that year...the lawyer had told her to always bring proof of job etc in England.....they let her in telling her not to re-entre...until she was married and on her new visa......
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I think it proves a point that you need to know how everyone in your party stands with what visa they need when coming to the USA....her friends had a very nasty few hours in other offices.....something that could happend to you if someone in your party does not have the right visa etc.....so I would say that it could apply to some people on vacation......everyone she was traveling with was pulled out of line..which could happen if you were traveling with someone needing a visa because of a court case...I'd hate to see that happen to anyone on a FL holiday.....even more so with kids.....when that happens all of the fellow travelers can travel on....but the wait at the airport can't be a nice way to start your holiday.....

[floridadreamvilla.co.uk]

Of course you do - it makes a LOT of sense to make sure you have the correct VISA (if required) before you travel. This not only applies to the USA, but any country you travel to. It's common sense [msnsmile]
<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by chrizzy100
<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by floridadreamvilla.co.uk
I think that's a bit of a gerealisation - we come over 4-5 times a year on the VISA Waiver and do get asked about our jobs but never have to prove anything. Why would they not just take your word for it, unless there was something else that made them suspicious?

I think the fact that her boyfriend had a H1B visa, which allows himn to stay in the US has a lot more to do with why she was questioned - they would naturally have been suspicious that she wanted to come over to live with her boyfriend in the US. This will not apply to many (if any) people coming over to the US on vacation so is a red herring.

<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by chrizzy100
My friend was stopped and held in an office for a few hours on her last trip before marrying her boyfriend who lived here on an H1B....she had been over 2 times already that year...the lawyer had told her to always bring proof of job etc in England.....they let her in telling her not to re-entre...until she was married and on her new visa......
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I think it proves a point that you need to know how everyone in your party stands with what visa they need when coming to the USA....her friends had a very nasty few hours in other offices.....something that could happend to you if someone in your party does not have the right visa etc.....so I would say that it could apply to some people on vacation......everyone she was traveling with was pulled out of line..which could happen if you were traveling with someone needing a visa because of a court case...I'd hate to see that happen to anyone on a FL holiday.....even more so with kids.....when that happens all of the fellow travelers can travel on....but the wait at the airport can't be a nice way to start your holiday.....
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[Ray&Sarah]

We haven't heard of anyone who has been refused entry either. Ray travels to the US several times a year for work and we usually travel there for our holidays twice a year. He has always found the immigration people to be thorough but fair.[msnsmile]

[E. Cosgrove]

Whenever David is asked his job he has stopped saying he works for Total as they always associate it with oils and he then gets asked if he travels to the middle east, he now say he works for Total petrochemicals, that way we seem to get less questions.

[caroline]

No, we've never heard of anybody being refused entry or refused a visa.
My sister-in-law and her partner go to the US around 6 or 8 times a year, and have been doing this for the last 17+ years and neither of them have ever even been questioned.

[Robert5988]

Cat Stevens was recently refused entry and a BA plane returned to London as it had a 'suspect' passenger on board that the US authorities refused to allow entry.

Unless you are 'known' to the US immigration authorities or they have suspicions you are going to break the rules of entry(seek work etc) I suspect you are unlikely to have problems.

I go 6/7 times a year on a Visa waiver and never have had a problem.

[Cruella DeVilla]

Have not heard or come across anyone that has been turned away.

[Nostromo]

<blockquote id="quote" class="ffs">quote:Originally posted by Robert5988
Cat Stevens was recently refused entry and a BA plane returned to London as it had a 'suspect' passenger on board that the US authorities refused to allow entry.
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That's not surprising. Yusuf Islam (or whatever he calls himself these days) has made statemets that have teetered on the edge of supporting fundamentalism in the past and that is only a step away from supporting terrorism.

[Ray9]

The facts relating to removal are not too difficult to pin down but there are variation..
There are Removal, Voluntary Departures. and more likely to interest this group would be the number of applications to enter which are withdrawn at the Port of Entry..
For the Removal.. these are all fully recorded so for the latest figures of DecO4
"Total removals for December decreased 19 percent compared to the same month a year before. In December 2004, DHS removed 12,547 aliens from the United States, 6,213 of these aliens were criminals"
http://uscis.gov/graphics/shared/abo...04/REMOVAL.HTM

Voluntary departures seem to be used more for people using a current visa .. where there may be a problem with that visa or similar...

The Withdrawal of Application seem to be used for people on the VW
more..i.e. "you don't enter, we won't put a ban on you"
From my experience this whats happens to those deemed to have abused the Visa Waiver... I personally know about half a dozen people this has affected.. but hear of many more thru immigration sources..

But the average tourist has nothing really to fear at all..