Would this be considered lying to a customs officer on a B2 visa

[whoami5673829 0]

So my family is on an H visa, and I wanted to visit my family for the summer on a B2 visa, I am an international student (in a country which I am not a citizen or a resident of). My father had solicited for some unpaid internships, nothing official, and I in naivety without looking up the legality of it, went along, I had an interview with them etc, All of this was before I visited the US. I only came to know about my visa stipulations that included that i could not work, only the day I was leaving for the States. Then after arriving I told my father about this and we declined the internship offer the following day. I do not intend to work in the US. However this was after the customs, and I did not mention anything about the internships and all. Would this be seen as misrepresentation and would this come back to bite me, I think I have learned my lesson to double check everything on the basis of legality whilst i visit the USA. 

 

One more query I had is whether people can report any queries of this sort, to the USCIS as I posted a similar question to reddit, which I had given to the uscis as prt of my ds160, or do the USCIS routinely check these accounts

 

im sorry 

[D-R-J 192]

Did they ask you about work? Seems like you should be ok considering you didn’t work once you found out it wasn’t allowed.
 

Definitely possible someone will check your Reddit posts. I guess the wording in the post would determine how problematic it is.

[whoami5673829 0]

Nope they did not ask me anything about my work, And I have deleted my posts and all last month after posting it for a week

[OldUser 6,659]

16 hours ago, D-R-J said:

Did they ask you about work? Seems like you should be ok considering you didn’t work once you found out it wasn’t allowed.

No this is not OK. Whether somebody knows or not, they cannot violate terms of their visa by working if not permitted.

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20 hours ago, whoami5673829 said:

So my family is on an H visa, and I wanted to visit my family for the summer on a B2 visa, I am an international student (in a country which I am not a citizen or a resident of). My father had solicited for some unpaid internships, nothing official, and I in naivety without looking up the legality of it, went along, I had an interview with them etc, All of this was before I visited the US. I only came to know about my visa stipulations that included that i could not work, only the day I was leaving for the States. Then after arriving I told my father about this and we declined the internship offer the following day. I do not intend to work in the US. However this was after the customs, and I did not mention anything about the internships and all. Would this be seen as misrepresentation and would this come back to bite me, I think I have learned my lesson to double check everything on the basis of legality whilst i visit the USA. 

 

One more query I had is whether people can report any queries of this sort, to the USCIS as I posted a similar question to reddit, which I had given to the uscis as prt of my ds160, or do the USCIS routinely check these accounts

 

im sorry 

Simple. Don't ask, don't tell. If asked, deny, deny 

[D-R-J 192]

3 hours ago, OldUser said:

No this is not OK. Whether somebody knows or not, they cannot violate terms of their visa by working if not permitted.

You are right, he is not allowed to work on a B2…and he didn’t.