Trip to Puerto Rico - will CBP let me back in
Apr 22nd 2009, 6:06 pm
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Trip to Puerto Rico - will CBP let me back in
Hi
Can anyone help me.
I am currently on the VWP and due to leave on 1st May back to the UK for good. My fiance wants to take me to Puerto Rico for the weekend, can anyone advise if I will be allowed back in the country. I did have immigration problems coming in bearing in mind I did two 90 days with a short time out of the country in between and dont want to end up not being allowed back in.
Thanks
Can anyone help me.
I am currently on the VWP and due to leave on 1st May back to the UK for good. My fiance wants to take me to Puerto Rico for the weekend, can anyone advise if I will be allowed back in the country. I did have immigration problems coming in bearing in mind I did two 90 days with a short time out of the country in between and dont want to end up not being allowed back in.
Thanks
Apr 22nd 2009, 6:20 pm
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Re: Trip to Puerto Rico - will CBP let me back in
Hi
Can anyone help me.
I am currently on the VWP and due to leave on 1st May back to the UK for good. My fiance wants to take me to Puerto Rico for the weekend, can anyone advise if I will be allowed back in the country. I did have immigration problems coming in bearing in mind I did two 90 days with a short time out of the country in between and dont want to end up not being allowed back in.
Thanks
Can anyone help me.
I am currently on the VWP and due to leave on 1st May back to the UK for good. My fiance wants to take me to Puerto Rico for the weekend, can anyone advise if I will be allowed back in the country. I did have immigration problems coming in bearing in mind I did two 90 days with a short time out of the country in between and dont want to end up not being allowed back in.
Thanks
Hopefully someone can pipe up and clarify whether you'll have to go thru immigration control or not.
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Apr 22nd 2009, 6:26 pm
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Re: Trip to Puerto Rico - will CBP let me back in
Hi
Can anyone help me.
I am currently on the VWP and due to leave on 1st May back to the UK for good. My fiance wants to take me to Puerto Rico for the weekend, can anyone advise if I will be allowed back in the country. I did have immigration problems coming in bearing in mind I did two 90 days with a short time out of the country in between and dont want to end up not being allowed back in.
Thanks
Can anyone help me.
I am currently on the VWP and due to leave on 1st May back to the UK for good. My fiance wants to take me to Puerto Rico for the weekend, can anyone advise if I will be allowed back in the country. I did have immigration problems coming in bearing in mind I did two 90 days with a short time out of the country in between and dont want to end up not being allowed back in.
Thanks
Apr 22nd 2009, 6:29 pm
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Re: Trip to Puerto Rico - will CBP let me back in
First things first. Puerto Rico is inside the USA. It's surprising how many Americans don't know this.
Second... there is another thread here somewhere about this issue. Apparently immigration does keep some kind of eye on the comings and goings from there. But if your documentation is squared away, I can't see there being a problem.
Second... there is another thread here somewhere about this issue. Apparently immigration does keep some kind of eye on the comings and goings from there. But if your documentation is squared away, I can't see there being a problem.
Apr 22nd 2009, 6:33 pm
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Re: Trip to Puerto Rico - will CBP let me back in
Hmmm, I don't think a flight to PR will be classed as international. In all likelihood, you wouldn't even go through immigration on the return flight to the US. However, I've never been to PR, so I could be very wrong. If you do have to go thru immigration, I'd find it highly unlikely you'll be allowed entry. Sounds like you've been tryin to live in the US w/out a visa.
Hopefully someone can pipe up and clarify whether you'll have to go thru immigration control or not.
Hopefully someone can pipe up and clarify whether you'll have to go thru immigration control or not.
Thanks for your response.
Apr 22nd 2009, 6:35 pm
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Re: Trip to Puerto Rico - will CBP let me back in
First things first. Puerto Rico is inside the USA. It's surprising how many Americans don't know this.
Second... there is another thread here somewhere about this issue. Apparently immigration does keep some kind of eye on the comings and goings from there. But if your documentation is squared away, I can't see there being a problem.
Second... there is another thread here somewhere about this issue. Apparently immigration does keep some kind of eye on the comings and goings from there. But if your documentation is squared away, I can't see there being a problem.
Hi AdobePinon
Chances are the "Americans that dont know this" would be the CBP officials.
I am not sure I want to take the risk even though I know for definite I am getting on that plane on Friday back to the UK but even though I have the ticket to prove it chances are it wont be enough for them.
Thanks for taking the time to respond.
Apr 22nd 2009, 7:06 pm
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Re: Trip to Puerto Rico - will CBP let me back in
Hi
Can anyone help me.
I am currently on the VWP and due to leave on 1st May back to the UK for good. My fiance wants to take me to Puerto Rico for the weekend, can anyone advise if I will be allowed back in the country. I did have immigration problems coming in bearing in mind I did two 90 days with a short time out of the country in between and dont want to end up not being allowed back in.
Thanks
Can anyone help me.
I am currently on the VWP and due to leave on 1st May back to the UK for good. My fiance wants to take me to Puerto Rico for the weekend, can anyone advise if I will be allowed back in the country. I did have immigration problems coming in bearing in mind I did two 90 days with a short time out of the country in between and dont want to end up not being allowed back in.
Thanks
If you are a UK citizen, I see no reason for the UK not to let you in.
BTW, the initials "CBP" are generally used for the United States border people. I've never heard it used for the British inspectors also.
Apr 22nd 2009, 7:07 pm
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Re: Trip to Puerto Rico - will CBP let me back in
Sorry Folinskyinla I was referring to the CBP at the airport letting me back into the USA from Puerto Rico and then returning to the UK on 1st May.
Apr 22nd 2009, 7:08 pm
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Re: Trip to Puerto Rico - will CBP let me back in
Not much to see and hear in PR that you can't see and hear in New York City.
Apr 22nd 2009, 8:34 pm
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Re: Trip to Puerto Rico - will CBP let me back in
First things first. Puerto Rico is inside the USA. It's surprising how many Americans don't know this.
Second... there is another thread here somewhere about this issue. Apparently immigration does keep some kind of eye on the comings and goings from there. But if your documentation is squared away, I can't see there being a problem.
Second... there is another thread here somewhere about this issue. Apparently immigration does keep some kind of eye on the comings and goings from there. But if your documentation is squared away, I can't see there being a problem.
Apr 22nd 2009, 9:06 pm
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Re: Trip to Puerto Rico - will CBP let me back in
Thanks crg14624 no previous overstays but did do two separate 90 days on the VWP with only about a 11 day stay back in the UK which is why I am wondering if that will flag up on coming back and if they think I am intending to stay past the I94 date.
Apr 22nd 2009, 9:22 pm
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Re: Trip to Puerto Rico - will CBP let me back in
You have me very confused now -- are you traveling somewhere via Puerto Rico? As written, you are asking will they be "...letting back into the USA from the USA and then returning to the UK on 1st May."
Apr 22nd 2009, 9:44 pm
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Re: Trip to Puerto Rico - will CBP let me back in
It's treated as part of the USA for immigration purposes, but otherwise is a United States territory, not part of the USA itself (unlike Hawaii, for example).