Canadian wants to be in the US

Reba
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Canuck in NC

Joined: 16 Jul 2004
Posts: 1172
Location: North Carolina

Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 12:31 pm

 

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Its not legal to leave the US for just one day, or even one month, just to return for another 180 days. The rule is you must be out as long as you were in. So if you're in the US for 6 months, you would have to be in Canada for 6 months as well.

In previous years, the US border patrol didn't bother too much with enforcing this law, but now they really really are! You may slip thru, but if you don't, and you piss off the wrong dude, you could end up getting yourself banned for a period of years, or until you get a proper entry visa of some sort.

As to the poster above chrryblssm, if you've been in the US already for 15 months, you're illegal and there is no amount of trying you can do at this point to make yourself legal. You should return to Canada and try applying for some sort of visa thru the proper routes. These days, it is just waaaaaaaaaaay too risky to even attempt the illegal way. You will be deported and banned, possilby jailed, if you're caught. As it is now, if you leave the US to go back home to apply for a visa, you will have a 3 to 10 year ban likely for your extended overstay.

Spins the wheel, ya takes your chances...when it comes to immigration and the rest of your life, the odds are not with you.

And marrying a USC just so that you can stay in the US is also visa fraud, against the law, and not recommended.

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