Originally posted by J. J. Farrell
> "tenormezzo" <member19348@british_expats.com> wrote in message
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> > Thanks for your reply. I have since been advised, on arrival, to
> quote
> > the US embassy in London that "I am entitled to stay an extra
> ten days
> > after my visa expires."
> I would not word it like that if I were you. You are entitled to
> whatever the officer at the Port of Entry chooses to give you,
> nothing more and nothing less. The Embassy's opinion is irrelevant.
> If you have a valid visa, you are not 'entitled' to enter the USA
> - it is still the Inspector that makes the decision. If you get an
> unpleasant Inspector and start telling him what you are 'entitled'
> to, he might choose to be less helpful than he could be ...
> There is (or was) a general rule that for some types of visa and
> petition you can be admitted until 10 days beyond the validity of
> the petition. I don't know if this applies to your visa, and in
> any case I have never seen it actually done even for visas to which
> it does apply.
> I would word it more along the lines of "I'm giving a concert on
> such a date, then I plan to vacation in such a place for a few days
> afterwards. I have a return ticket for such a date, and the guys at
> the US Embassy in London said this would be fine."
Good point! Thank you.