Overstayed in the US

DazMan_2

Hi,

i was wondering if somebody has been in the same situation as me. I have been in the US since late September on the VWP. I missed my flight back just before christmas and could not get a flight until the new year, i've stayed with friends but now I have been here for more than 90 days ... what can I expect from US immigration when I get to the airport to come back home, will I be grilled, stopped from getting on the plane until they've checked me out or what ?

Peteee

mmmm tough one that.

Make sure you have the old ticket anyways, so you can prove you tried to leave the country before the deadline.

I'm wondering what effect all this 'Homeland Security' malarky will have on you?

I'm sure somebody has more experience been stopped at an airport then me so....

kaimera

i think they'l let you go home but you WILL be stopped when/if you try to go back to the states in the airport at emmigration.

saw it happen to a guy in the line with me last June. hehehe. idiot.

Gordon

Moved from PI.

Miles

DazMan_2 wrote:

Hi,

i was wondering if somebody has been in the same situation as me. I have been in the US since late September on the VWP. I missed my flight back just before christmas and could not get a flight until the new year, i've stayed with friends but now I have been here for more than 90 days ... what can I expect from US immigration when I get to the airport to come back home, will I be grilled, stopped from getting on the plane until they've checked me out or what ?

The ticket agent will check your passport as part of the SOP for Ireland entry. But you do not deal with US immigration on departure.

As someone else said going back would be a different story.

pickarooney

My bro missed his train to Canada on the last day of his visa. He took the train the next day and was stopped on the border. He spent nearly three weeks in prison.

kaimera

wasn't him in the paper a while back as it pickarooney? read about something similar.

SoBe

id say you will get out without much problems but i dont think you will be let back in for at least 3 years,they issue a 3 year ban for a small overstay and a 10 year ban for a longer overstay not sure what the time limit is though

Victor

Talk to the local Irish consulate (there's a bunch of them) and get their advice.

http://foreignaffairs.gov.ie/embassies/display.asp

chump

My sister missed her bus to Mexico on the last day of her visa. She took the bus the next day and was stopped on the border. She spent nearly five weeks in prison, shackled.

por

Miles wrote:

The ticket agent will check your passport as part of the SOP for Ireland entry. But you do not deal with US immigration on departure.

As someone else said going back would be a different story.

When you are checking in for your flight the check-in crew will take that green slip of paper off your passport and will pass it on with all the others to US immigration .They will then put iyour departure date in their computer and it will show that your departure date was more than 90 days after entry, so it might be a problem next time you are going to the US.

You could remove the green slip prior to check in and when the check in staff ask for it say you lost it. Then on the US immigration computer your departure date will be 'blank'. So the next time the you enter the US they may ask a few more questions but will no be able to prove you have overstayed.

You are lucky the US do not stamp passports on departure like they do in Australia for example.

pickarooney

kaimera wrote:

wasn't him in the paper a while back as it pickarooney? read about something similar.

I don't think he was in any papers. This was about two years ago. He was only pissed off until he met some of the long timers in there, and then realised how lucky he was comparatively - a Cuban who had committed a minor crime in the US, local law says he should be deported, Cuban law says they won't take back any criminals, so effectively a life sentence for public disturbance, that kind of thing.