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Hightower   0

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Hi guys and girls, I'm new to the forum and looking for a bit of advice


I have an old college friend that lives in Florida, I've been in touch with him for years. I'm from the UK and looking to visit him and his wife. I also want to rent a car and drive around the USA. I'd like to spend a couple of months with them at their request, but under the VWP that would only leave me a month to see what I want to see and that wouldn't be long enough in my mind.


I then read about the B2 visa and see that you can at the immigration officers discretion ,get up to 6 months to travel before having to leave. However getting a B2 visa is not a certainty. It all seems rather up in the air as to whether or not a visa gets approved. So maybe you can offer some advice.




So some background


1) I have more than enough money for my stay in the USA


2) I own a property, however it is not in the UK, but in the Channel Islands


3) I'm a UK citizen but only moved back there in May of 2012, having spent 6 years in the Channel Islands.


4) I've had steady employment up until I moved back to the UK, I hope to find something soon, so at the moment I'm without work.

5) I moved back in with family so my permanent residence is in the UK and I have bills to pay there as well as for my property.

6) I plan to travel around May 2014



7) I don't have family in the US, nor a girl friend. I'm in my 40's and have no intention of staying in the USA after I done my traveling



I guess some of those things are negative, so I'd like some opinions on the likely hood of getting approved


I thought maybe just going with the Visa waiver program to be on the safe side but the extra time would be a bonus. I just wonder what happens with regards to visiting the US if your application for a B2 is denied?


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Ning Experienced

Ning   619

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Hi guys and girls, I'm new to the forum and looking for a bit of advice
I have an old college friend that lives in Florida, I've been in touch with him for years. I'm from the UK and looking to visit him and his wife. I also want to rent a car and drive around the USA. I'd like to spend a couple of months with them at their request, but under the VWP that would only leave me a month to see what I want to see and that wouldn't be long enough in my mind.
I then read about the B2 visa and see that you can at the immigration officers discretion ,get up to 6 months to travel before having to leave. However getting a B2 visa is not a certainty. It all seems rather up in the air as to whether or not a visa gets approved. So maybe you can offer some advice.
So some background
1) I have more than enough money for my stay in the USA
2) I own a property, however it is not in the UK, but in the Channel Islands
3) I'm a UK citizen but only moved back there in May of 2012, having spent 6 years in the Channel Islands.
4) I've had steady employment up until I moved back to the UK, I hope to find something soon, so at the moment I'm without work.
5) I moved back in with family so my permanent residence is in the UK and I have bills to pay there as well as for my property.
6) I plan to travel around May 2014
7) I don't have family in the US, nor a girl friend. I'm in my 40's and have no intention of staying in the USA after I done my traveling
I guess some of those things are negative, so I'd like some opinions on the likely hood of getting approved
I thought maybe just going with the Visa waiver program to be on the safe side but the extra time would be a bonus. I just wonder what happens with regards to visiting the US if your application for a B2 is denied?
Hope you can help smile.png
Boiler Grand Master

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From what you have said do not bother, use the VWP.

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”

MacUK Proficient

MacUK   983

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If your B-2 is denied then you can't use the VWP ever again.

Is that really worth the risk?

August 2000: We start e-mailing. I'm in Bosnia, she's in Florida

October 29th 2000: She sends me e-mail asking if I would marry her

October 29th 2000(5 seconds later): I say yes

November 2000: She sends me tickets to Orlando for when I get back

December 6th 2000: Return from Bos

December 11th 2000: Fly to Orlando, she meets me at airport

December 22nd 2000: I fly back to UK

January 3rd 2001: She flies to UK (Good times)

Mid February 2001: Pregnancy test Positive

Mid February 2001: She flies back to US

March 2001: Miscarriage, I fly to US on first flight I can get

May 2001: I leave US before my 90 days are up

June 2001: I fly back to US, stopped at airport for questioning as I had only just left

September 2001: Pregnancy test Positive again

September 2001: She falls sick, I make decision to stay to look after her as I am afraid I may have problems getting back in.

April 16th 2002: Our son is born, we start getting stuff together for his passport

March 6th 2003: We leave US for UK as family

Early April 2003: Family troubles make her return to US, I ask Embassy in London about possibilities of returning to US

April 16th 2003: London Embassy informs me that I will be banned from the Visa Waiver Program for 10 years, my little boys first birthday

June 13th 2006: I-129f sent

August 11th 2006: NOA1 Recieved

After our relationship breaks down she admits to me that she had never bothered to start the application process

Boiler Grand Master

Boiler   45,979

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Not so.

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”

Penguin_ie Grand Master

Penguin_ie   5,996

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Small chance of a B2 for you.. even with savings, they will wonder how you can afford it and why you don't work.

Why not split up the trip? See your friends for 2 months, go home, then go back a few months later for a 2 months road trip.

Bye: Penguin

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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