Afternoon,

I have been to the usa twice, First Trip june 25th 06 to August 31st 06 then november 2nd 06 to january 31st 07, i want to go back in may, will the US immigration have a problem with this ?

Ross..

Hi,
Welcome to flyertalk!

They will not have a problem with your visit as long as you come from one of the Visa Waiver programme countries with a machine readable passport and left the US within 90 days of arriving ( and handing back the I94 departures record when you left the US)

Regards

TBS

As far as I know there is no limit on how frequent you can travel to the US on the Visa waiver program as long as you don't violate the rules (overstay).

I don't think that the US immigration will have any problems at all letting you in.


heli_parts

Thanks for the information guys

I have been to the states for three times last year, did not have a problem as long as you stay with the requirements of the 90 days and such.

oh and they where even so nicely to reuse the same page all three times and remove the tacker from the last entry of the little green slip so they saw it.

(make sure that they tacker the green thing in your passport so you do not accidently loose it!)

I flew in and out of the states 21 times in 2006 on the visa waiver programme and never had a problem.

Why so many times, Did they question you at all ?

My partner is American and used to live in Tennessee then New York. I have some questions asked because my passport is so full of US stamps.
JFK was never a problem nor IAD but EWR was a nightmare, very personal questions which to be frank were none of their business. I have only been secondary screened twice, once in CLT and once at EWR.

As long as you don't exceed the 90 days and the 180 days annually, it should not be a problem at all.

Well i left England last time on the 2nd november and came back on the 31st january, so does the 180 days start every january or not ? if they have i have only been there 31 days this year.

It is a calendar year restriction - so clock reset in Jan

My passport has got heaps of US entries.
Usually they never ask why so many.
But once this officer said: DAMN......how much money do you make??
He and I just laughed and he sent me on.........NEXT!

So I reckon you`ll be fine.

Really. I was told by different INS inspectors that the system was based on a 365 day rolling calculation and that if I exceeded 180 days within that period that I would have voilated my visa (not visa waiver which is 90 days).

Standard admission is 180 days for a B1/B2 visitor and 90 days for a VWP visitor. Each entry is independent of the other, and I'm not aware of any regulation that limits the amount of total time in a year that one can spend in the US. I will say, however, that all of these visa classifications presume that the alien is a non-immigrant visitor. For B1/B2 visa holders, their ties to a foreign country are examined by a consular officer at an American embassy or consulate. For VWP participants, the traveler's foreign ties as they relate to section 214(b) of the Immigration and Nationality Act are examined at the port of entry.

I mention this to point out that someone who spends five or six months a year in the US as a temporary visitor will be asked to justify their foreign ties and their activities in the United States.