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caco   0

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I know it is not the same topic but i have something to ask too!! In october i was "arrested" by the customs for 3 hours because i went in america too many times!! It s been 8 months now since my last trip! I planned to go end of august just for 3 weeks of vacation!! I just want to know if it is a bad idea or if for 3 weeks it will be no problem?? thanks

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Penguin_ie Grand Master

Penguin_ie   5,994

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We need more information. I doubt you were in fact arrested, but the question is what exactly happened. Did you sign any papers and if so what? Did they write anything in your passport? There is a possibility that you will no longer be able to use the VWP and need to apply for a tourist visa, but it depends on what happened.

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Me: Irish/ Swiss citizen, and now naturalised US citizen. Husband: USC; twin babies born Feb 08 in Ireland and a daughter in Feb 2010 in Arkansas who are all joint Irish/ USC. Did DCF (IR1) in 6 weeks via the Dublin, Ireland embassy and now living in Arkansas.

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Harsh_77 Mentor

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My boyfriend lives in America! I was detained by customs 3 hours, just checked my suitcase and said i came too many times! but they didnt put anything on my passeport or made me sign any papers!! And i dont have a visa tourist!!

They are afraid that you might use the VWP to enter under pretext of tourist and continue to stay in US. I am sure they asked you about how you can afford this many trips, if you working then how do you get that many days off etc.

They might have somethign in the system you never know, but if you are going to use VWP this often then you would be going thru this kinda screening.

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Brother Hesekiel   2,236

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Put yourself in the shoes of the CBP officer at the airport. He or she will want to be pretty sure that you will return to France once your vacation is over. Bring anything that will make the officer to feel good about letting you in. Show that you have an apartment, a job, a cat or a dog waiting for you . . . anything you have that shows that you cannot possibly want to stay in the United States.

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.

President Teddy Roosevelt on Columbus Day 1915

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