Australian citizen and rejected visa

[rajeevperera]

Hi,

My mother in law wanted a one year visa so she applied and was rejected the first time. The second time they gave her a three month entry visa. I have two questions:

(1) Is she now eligible for the visa waiver program where Australian citizens can stay for three months without a visa? Or does she have to always apply for a visa as she got rejected once?
(2) If she is eligible for the visa waiver pgoram can se extend her stay another three months by going to Canada and coming back?

Thanks in advance
Rajeev

 

[GotPR?]

She can not extend the stay beyond 90 days on VWP and going to canada/mexico/adjacent island is not considered going out of the US when one is on VWP. She needs to travel far from the US to be eligible to come back the US with VWP again.

It is safe to get B visa, as one who got rejected visa in the past is not eligible to VWP. It does not say about the case the visa was rejected when one was on previous citizenship, though. She has to disclose the rejection of visa on I-94W(green one) upon entry, and it has some uncertain risk of entry denial without B visa.