How many times can someone enter, leave, and re enter the US to renew their tourist visa?

[deezy455 0]

Hi everyone!

I'm new to this forum, My girlfriend and I have been together for 2 years, living in Japan. She is Japanese, and I am American. I want her to come to America with me and test it out, whether she likes living there with me, etc. I think we need about a year or so to test this out.

I thought the best way to go about this, is to just get a tourist visa for her, which lasts for 90 days, and after the 90 days leave the country to canada, or mexico, for a few days, and re-enter, and renew her tourist visa for another 90 days. Is this possible? Can you keep doing this pattern, or is there a number of times they limit you?

Are there other options we can take so that we don't have to keep leaving the country?

Any insight at all is greatly appreciated, I am clueless on this matter, and am very frusterated, as I have been searching the forums, and can't really find any definate answers to these questions.

Thanks so much in advance!

[PlatyPius 5]

Yes, to keep from having to leave the country you can get a fiancee visa or a K3 visa like everyone else.

She cannot "go to Canada and come back to the US to renew her tourist visa." She can come here on a tourist visa, return to Japan after 90 days, wait the required number of days/months, and then return to the US for another 90 days.

[Yodrak 7]

deezy,

Japan is a VWP country - your girlfriend does not need to get a tourist visa.

If she does wish to get a tourist visa for some reason, the are generally issued with a validity of 10 years and CBP can grant a stay of as long as 6 months at the time of entry.

Leaving the country for a few days and then seeking to re-enter, whether using the VWP or a B2 visa, is going to start generating some tough questions on the 3rd attempted entry, maybe even the 2nd.

Yodrak

Hi everyone!

I'm new to this forum, My girlfriend and I have been together for 2 years, living in Japan. She is Japanese, and I am American. I want her to come to America with me and test it out, whether she likes living there with me, etc. I think we need about a year or so to test this out.

I thought the best way to go about this, is to just get a tourist visa for her, which lasts for 90 days, and after the 90 days leave the country to canada, or mexico, for a few days, and re-enter, and renew her tourist visa for another 90 days. Is this possible? Can you keep doing this pattern, or is there a number of times they limit you?

Are there other options we can take so that we don't have to keep leaving the country?

Any insight at all is greatly appreciated, I am clueless on this matter, and am very frusterated, as I have been searching the forums, and can't really find any definate answers to these questions.

Thanks so much in advance!