Denied entry - need advice urgently

lots of EU countries has issued over the period of years advice to their citizens to avoid traveling to the US all together without some urgent reason or business -traveling to see a friend or traveling for pleasure can not be related or conveyed to average US citizen as a experiance cause very few Americans travel like that or have a passport at all for that matter so it creates a lots of problems for tourists or visitors from Europe who are used to travel around Europe without beign asked to provide or explain anything -its a cultural thing more then anything else -Americans or to be more specific -officers at the border are usualy ignorant /ill informed persons with way too much power so for them anyone could be potentional illegal immigrant even through only about 1% of all illegals come to USA on any kind of visa and out of that number maybe 0.01% from EU countries on VWP ?but for sake of some kind of "political correctnes" they get the hard time too and disproportionate number of EU citizens are served with expulsions orders at the POE with flimsy excuse or no reason at all like you;You experiance in US embassy in Holland is typical for all this -they (at the US embassy in Holland) could not of course say -"look we have those idiots from homeland security on the border and we don't even trust those guys so we have now all kinds of systems on the border(fingerpints and retina scans etc.) to assure that there is some sort of control AT ALL !!-so they just gave you a new visa for your trouble -even 10 years one ;my advise :be cool and play dumb (basicly try to "blend inn"!:)
 
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You always have to bear in mind that the officers at the border sometimes - but not always - lack the wattage to be able to understand subtlety, and enjoy jerking around people who come to their kiosk. Most are fine, but as you found out at the POE and here in this forum, some are jerks for no reason at all. Like So Special said, the best bet is to leave it blank and note the application was allowed to expire, which they apparently are treating as a denial. As an immigrant and current US citizen, I am sorry you were treated with disrespect. Unfortunately, we can't guarantee it won't happen again.
 
So_Special said:
Ok, the layperson advice I can offer you is to do the following: leave that question blank and when the POE officer reviews your I-94 and asked about it then you explain the situation and allow him/her to determine how it should be completed. Some officers will have no problem with that. This way it wont appear you tried anything "funny".

The other thing I see is that your abandonment of the original application could have amounted to a denial as far as POE computers are concerned. What do you think about that suggestion?
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Thank you again :) I think it's a good suggestion, because I have no wish to complicate an already complicating situation. I will be traveling with my parents, so I will stand in line with them so that eases my mind a little bit. I have nothing to hide, no reason nor desire to stay in the United States so I wouldn't know why it would again be a problem. I have my university papers with me, I will be starting school again by the end of August so I hope that will give them enough evidence, plus my bank statements, statements from my parents and the friend that I will be staying at. I hope that'll be enough.

I am just scared for some reason that I will be denied entry again, whilst having a visa and all the above. I hope it will be unlikely for this to happen again. What is your opinion?
 
JerryR said:
You always have to bear in mind that the officers at the border sometimes - but not always - lack the wattage to be able to understand subtlety, and enjoy jerking around people who come to their kiosk. Most are fine, but as you found out at the POE and here in this forum, some are jerks for no reason at all. Like So Special said, the best bet is to leave it blank and note the application was allowed to expire, which they apparently are treating as a denial. As an immigrant and current US citizen, I am sorry you were treated with disrespect. Unfortunately, we can't guarantee it won't happen again.
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I definitely felt this way. The first POE officer was very nice to me, but the rest was so disrespecting. I understand they need to ask questions, but this only goes so far. Respect is no where to be found.

I hope it won't happen again, but I'm already not looking forward to traveling 14 something hours to Atlanta to go through the whole process.
 
S.Evs said:
Thank you again :) I think it's a good suggestion, because I have no wish to complicate an already complicating situation. I will be traveling with my parents, so I will stand in line with them so that eases my mind a little bit. I have nothing to hide, no reason nor desire to stay in the United States so I wouldn't know why it would again be a problem. I have my university papers with me, I will be starting school again by the end of August so I hope that will give them enough evidence, plus my bank statements, statements from my parents and the friend that I will be staying at. I hope that'll be enough.

I am just scared for some reason that I will be denied entry again, whilst having a visa and all the above. I hope it will be unlikely for this to happen again. What is your opinion?
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I dont see that happening. You should be fine this time around.
 
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