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Media visas for US

  • 16-04-2007 12:42am
    #1
    Snickers Man
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,301 ✭✭✭


    Has anyone here got an I-visa to travel to the US for journalistic/media assignments?

    If so, do you know what happens once the visa expires and you try to get into the US for reasons other than work?

    Example: you have a brand new passport, which will last 10 years. You have to go to the US on an assignment; you submit yourself to the bureaucratic hell that is the I-visa acquisition process; they give you one for, say, one year.

    Two years later, your passport still has eight years to run but it contains within it an expired I-visa. You decide you might like to go to New York for a shopping trip before Christmas--nothing to do with work.

    Will you be allowed in once they spot the fact that you are a journalist/media worker or will you have to get another I-visa, despite the fact that the purpose of your trip is pleasure and not business?

    Experiences welcome.


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  • #2
    Hobbes
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,264 ✭✭✭✭Hobbes


    If you have a visa and its expired in the passport you can still go on a holiday visa, providing that you were not previously banned for some reason.

    The holiday visa would be seperate process to the media one.


  • #3
    Tom Dunne
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,212 ✭✭✭✭Tom Dunne


    I've been in a similar situation with a different type of visa (can't remember if it was a B or a H - I've had a few). But going on a holiday to the US with a still valid visa wasn't a problem. I still filled out the visa waiver form and confirmed to the immigration heads at Dublin airport that I was not going to work and would be returning within the week.

    Same goes for an expired visa.


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