New trick to get free B-2 visa stay extension

December 18th, 2006

For people with visiting family members from other countries, B-2 visa must sound familiar to you. Typically your family members will be granted a stay of six month upon they pass the US Immigration and Custom checkpoint at the airport. If you wanted to extend their stay for whatever reasons, you have to file an request to US Homeland Security, this request must be filed with $200 per person processing fee, this sounds expensive.

Actually I found you can get that extension in a better way - just bring your family members to a cruise which stops at the Carribbean ilsands (like Bahama). Because the island is a foreign country, and upon return, you will have to pass the Immigration checkpoint, which they will grant you another six month of stay without asking you any questions!  You might think why cruise? because I guess Cruise is a controlled env, people who is allowed to enter the cruise departing from a US port should already have permission to stay in US,  so US DHS just assume you have valid permissions and all they need is just another putting another stamp on your passport.

Maybe you call my title “cheating” since you still have to pay for the cruise, but to me “Cruise” price in a heavy discounted season might be much less than $200, and don’t forget you’ll get served really well on the ship. 

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