Overstaying in US now canadian citizen & want to visit US

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slim215

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Hi all,
I came to US in 2000 under F1, left for 6 month in 2003 and re-enter the country in 2004 under H1B visa. Got laid-off in 2007, do AOS to B2 in 2007 and overstaying my B2 visa for more than a year before I left US 5 years ago in 2008 (stay in US the whole time between 2004 until 2008). I believe I am banned to re-enter the US for 10 years (5 years left now). I am now Canadian citizen and wanted to know what will happen if I'm trying to pass the border now? Would immigration officer on the US side will catch my name on their black list people? Thx!
 
If you over stayed your last valid B-2 status by more than a year, you face a 10 year ban. Acquiring Canadian citizenship does not change that.

slim215 said:
I am now Canadian citizen and wanted to know what will happen if I'm trying to pass the border now? Would immigration officer on the US side will catch my name on their black list people? Thx!
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I know I am still under 10 year ban and I can say with certainty that if I go back to my original country and try to apply B2 visa, US embassy will deny my application. I'm just wondering if anyone in this forum has the experience where they had been ban to re-enter US under one nationality and has since change their citizenship with countries that don't need visa to visit US and whether they have issue at the port of entry.
 
Your ban is not limited to a visa denial, it also extends to admission into US. Therefore you will still be subject to the ban even if you now hold Canadian citizenship. You will definitely be turned away at any US border if the agent gets to run your Canadian passport through their database.
 
I totally understand that the 10 year bar is not about visa denial but it is about entering the US. That said, so far, no one has shared whether they tried to do the same thing. What I gather from all of you who responded to my posting is that the US immigration system is a sophisticated, state of the art high tech system that when they scan Canadian passport the system will then catch my info on their 10 year bar list.
 
slim215 said:
What I gather from all of you who responded to my posting is that the US immigration system is a sophisticated, state of the art high tech system that when they scan Canadian passport the system will then catch my info on their 10 year bar list.
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If you're lucky that is what will happen. If you're unlucky they will let you in.
 
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