Travel Abroad after Green Card

Hannah7 said:
I want to take there also my mother and my friend with me.
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Avoid bringing your mother to their attention. Foreigners with parents/children/siblings who are permanent residents or citizens face greater scrutiny, because it is very often that the foreigner overstays the visa to be with their parent/child/sibling. You'll need to go to separate lines at the airport anyway, you to citizens/residents and she to Visitors. So you'll need separate customs forms.

They might still find out about you anyway, so she should be prepared to defend herself and explain her ties to her home country (house, spouse, etc.) if they hassle her because her son has a green card.
 
Well my mother's english isn't perfect. So maybe good strategy for her:

- use address of a hotel instead of my address
- don't talk about me
- have return flight ticket + itineary on the paper

and also as mentioned go separately. I won't talk about my mother comming and she'd not talk about me, just about plans like shopping, visiting Statue of Liberty ...

good?
 
Jackolantern said:
Avoid bringing your mother to their attention. Foreigners with parents/children/siblings who are permanent residents or citizens face greater scrutiny, because it is very often that the foreigner overstays the visa to be with their parent/child/sibling. ......
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Hi Jack,
thank you for helping the forum. I have a question. What do we mean by 'overstay' on visitor visa. My parents have been granted one year multiple entry visa starting 01 June 2008. They are planning to come here in US this year in March 2009
1. Does this mean, that they have to LEAVE USA on or prior to June 1 2009?
2. or is it, they can stay beyong June 1 2009 provided their overall length of stay in US during that particular trip is still within 6 months (180 days total, AND THEY ENTER USA before june 1 2009). I am presuming that their I-94 will be stamped for 6 month stay at POE. In other words, 'expiry date on visitor visa' signify the eligibility to ENTER and not restriction to EXIT.
Thank you in advance.
 
tomy19192001 said:
Hi Jack,
thank you for helping the forum. I have a question. What do we mean by 'overstay' on visitor visa. My parents have been granted one year multiple entry visa starting 01 June 2008. They are planning to come here in US this year in March 2009
1. Does this mean, that they have to LEAVE USA on or prior to June 1 2009?
2. or is it, they can stay beyong June 1 2009 provided their overall length of stay in US during that particular trip is still within 6 months (180 days total, AND THEY ENTER USA before june 1 2009). I am presuming that their I-94 will be stamped for 6 month stay at POE. In other words, 'expiry date on visitor visa' signify the eligibility to ENTER and not restriction to EXIT.
Thank you in advance.
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The visa in the passport has no thing to do with stay in US. The visa is some thing to enter the US within its validity (if one day left in the visa exactly as if 10 years left). After anyone admitted to US (with valid visa in the day of entrance for sure) he/she should follow the regulation and do not overstay what written in the I94. If for example I94 stamped for one week, then one week is the maximum, if stamped for 6 months, then 6 months is the maximum, if stamped for DS, a valid unexpired DS (for J visa) should be valid all the time and so on. Few exceptions for this may apply for example for those coming with AP, I94 will be for one year, but those can over stay that if the I485 is pending. If one overstay that time just because the visa stamp is not expired yet, he will be violating immigration law and will face troubles during his subsequent entry with the valid visa. These troubles will depend on the length and justification of the overstay (over the time mentioned in I94) last visit.
 
mmed said:
TIf one overstay that time just because the visa stamp is not expired yet, he will be violating immigration law and will face troubles during his subsequent entry with the valid visa.
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The troubles they will face is that the visa is no longer valid. Overstay automatically cancels it.
 
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