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Visa length of stay and return

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Gosia & Tito Proficient

Gosia & Tito   199

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There is no time requirement, but several exits/entries not very far apart in time will probably raise flags. Your question seems to indicate you have a one time entry visa only, chances are that next time you get a multiple entry.

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There is no set rule, the US likes to see more time spent in your home country than in the US. Plus there is the issue of ties, if you are unable to satisfy them with sufficient ties to your home country you will be unlikely be issued another tourist visa

How long were you in the US? What ties do you have? What country are you from?

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Are you sure you had a visa, and didn't come on the Visa Waiver Program?

In any case, as mentioned, there is no hard and fast rule, but as a guideline, you should spend more time out of the USA than in, so I would wait 3 months.

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fastinjun Apprentice

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Yes it was the visa waiver program. Heres the situation. Husband is from the USA, we have a son together that was born in Europe. Came to the usa to visit and my husband wants to stay for a while to take care of some unfinished business. My 3 months is up soon and either need to file for permanant residence or go back. Not sure what to do at this point. Im here now and have to decide in the next week.

Thanks again for your advice.

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Filing for Adjustment of Status in your particular situation would be immigration suicide. You will need to leave before your I-94W expires, stay in Finland for at least 4 to 6 weeks and come back.

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all . . . . The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic . . . . There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else.

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Yes it was the visa waiver program. Heres the situation. Husband is from the USA, we have a son together that was born in Europe. Came to the usa to visit and my husband wants to stay for a while to take care of some unfinished business. My 3 months is up soon and either need to file for permanant residence or go back. Not sure what to do at this point. Im here now and have to decide in the next week.

Thanks again for your advice.

It depends on how long your husbands unfinished business is going to take to be finished. It seems after that he is ready to move with your Europe, if you guys going to do that - then AOS would be waste.

Also doing AOS on VWP is not a wise idea, if you want you can return to Finland and apply for tourist visa and let CO know you dont want to immigrate to US and your husband is going to move to europe, that could work or nothing then return back on VWP after 6 weeks, but you will be asked why frequent visit even on VWP.

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