Originally Posted by
lin821
No. You got the main point wrong. OP's girl friend won't have any problem leaving NYC this time. An expired visa can't hold her back from departure. She may even take any flight as her heart desires.
However, if OP's GF overstays her current visa, even by an hour, chances are she won't be able to get a new visa nor allowed to get back into the U.S. for a loooong time. I would think OP prefers to keep seeing this girl and having her visit Uncle Sam in the near future. That's why overstay her visa IS a bad idea. Don't chance it. That's the point.
There seem to still be different ideas on what controls the allowed stay in the US-is it the period stated on the visa (which you seem to support) or is it the date on the I-94 (as others support). If it is the I-94, then staying past the date on the visa but leaving before the date on the I-94 wouldn't create a re-entry problem, because if it did, then the real action date is the earlier of the two. Or so it seems.