First of all thank you all for the replies.

Yeah I really do not want to go down a route of embellishing the truth. I am sure from my past visits (especially the last one where the guy did a LOT of typing) that they'll know my deal anyway.

I always print out my itinerary and have it ready to hand to the officer with my passport. Every time they have asked to see one so I figured I'll do the same.

I know that by all accounts and on paper I should be fine, I'm just really dreading being pulled into a room and grilled by some control freak again.

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There is another issue that I am attempting to clear up today. I have NEVER overstayed in the US, and I have ALWAYS been out of the country by the date stamped in my passport.

However, in this last summer, I was due to leave on the 16th of August and my plane was curtailed in Phoenix Arizona meaning that I was going to miss my connecting flight back to the UK in PHL. The airline deemed that it was futile for me to make the trip to PHL, so they kindly sent me back and rebooked my entire itinerary (rather than send me to PHL and put me in a hotel).

I left the next day successfully on the 17th, the date that was stamped on my passport. I contacted the UK embassy when I got home and asked about it, and the man on the phone said I should be fine. But there was no way for him to "check" on any computer system to confirm this.


I am going to contact CBP when they open today to try and make sure I'm not flagged as an overstay. I have a nice letter from airline documenting the whole problem, as well as tickets the from both days on the airline. So I am hoping I will be ok.

Does anyone know if the number at the following link is the correct one for me to contact in this situation?

http://www.cbp.gov/xp/cgov/toolbox/c...er_service.xml


Thank you all again.