90 days then back for two weeks?

[yourwelcome 0]

Hi I often travel to the USA, New Jersey to be specific...and by often I mean i go for like a week once every 3 months or so, and have done this 3 times now. My bf lives there and i want to visit him this summer from july til mid september..about 80 days..but then i have to return to the UK for a month or so, for family reasons.. but then i'd like to go back for like 2 weeks before i go back to get a full time job and get my life going somewhere..and he'd plan the next visit to me.

Point is, will this look suspicious to them? ..Will they stop me coming back so soon after such a long stay ..and I will have a couple thousand english pounds so it shows i can support myself.

[canadian_wife 1,827]

Well, coming back so quickly after a long stay in the US raises eyebrows. Expect to be asked for ties.

IT is clear you have someone special in the US so they may be more questions, be prepared

Good luck

[Noel194 53]

I think I need to move to the UK. It seems several people are able to take 80-180 day vacations. Here in the USA the average annual vacation is 2 weeks. So anyone who claims to be on Holiday for 80 days raises suspicion.

[*Snowdrop* 604]

I think I need to move to the UK. It seems several people are able to take 80-180 day vacations. Here in the USA the average annual vacation is 2 weeks. So anyone who claims to be on Holiday for 80 days raises suspicion.

There is a lot more flexibility (in many industries, not all) over vacation time in the UK, compared to the US. I think I may have actually wept when I first realised what employment conditions in the US were like.

At my company (media industry) I had seven weeks paid vacation with the option of carrying 2 over at the end of the year. Meaning it was possible to start the year with 9 weeks of paid vacation ahead of you. I also worked shifts on the kind of pattern where you do 4x10 hour days and then three days off. So when planning trips I would aim to make my vacation time last as long as possible by using just 4 days of leave to get 10 days off work (by having my three days off fall at the start and end of my vacation. Also I would volunteer to do extra days and take the vacation time instead of the pay.

It meant that in the three years before I moved over here I was able to visit five or six times a year, sometimes for a few months at a time. I guess I had a good enough regular pattern of returning to the UK though as I never had any problems at the border.

I missed out on the maternity leave though which was a shame. My US employer gave me 4 unpaid weeks off. In the UK I would have had six months paid leave, followed by the option of 6 months unpaid, followed by the option of taking part-time or flexible working hours, with my job title and place guaranteed.

[Dana-Mića 51]

I think I need to move to the UK. It seems several people are able to take 80-180 day vacations. Here in the USA the average annual vacation is 2 weeks. So anyone who claims to be on Holiday for 80 days raises suspicion.

It's not only the UK. I have family in Australia which takes 3 month vacations each time they go to Europe and America. We get 10 days - 3 weeks the most 4 or 5 when you have 10 year or something.