Hi all,
Long time no post. I wasn't sure which forum to post this in, apologies if this is incorrect.
The situation is my mother-in-law sent in her ESTA, it took forever to process and came back denied. She's visited us multiple times on the VWP to 3 different states, with no problem until 2020. She came to visit that March, a week later they locked down and she could not leave before the 3 months ran out. I helped her file two extensions with the local immigration office. The extensions were approved both times and she could finally book a flight home in July. She was here a total of 5 months. Nobody gave her any grief about the overstay since she had papers to cover that.
My questions are:
Is she on a ban list now despite going through everything with immigration for that overstay?
Would she even be approved for a visitor visa if she applied to visit next year?
I'm assuming this will affect possible immigration applications in the future?
Thanks for any help!
