Not an overstay, but what to do?
I'm American and my husband is Australian naturalized British. We visit the US every year, although I usually stay longer than he does. Last year he flew back before me and immigration at Newark didn't take the other part of the visa waiver form and he didn't notice the (single, small, and not in an obvious place) sign that told him what to do with it. He hasn't done anything with it since.
We're going to the US again this year.
That was on his Australian passport which has since expired. He hasn't decided if he wants to travel on his new Australian passport (b/c then he won't have to be fingerprinted again and whatnot) or if there will be problems and he should just get a British passport. (Technically that would speed things up at the return except that he still goes through non-EU lines with me anyway as we will be travelling back together but I will be entering the US before him.)
He'll be flying into Raleigh-Durham (RDU) so I don't know if they would be forgiving about him not having turned in the card at Newark, or if it will even matter since it's another passport. He does have a stamp (in the old passport, that has the visa waiver form) proving that he arrived back in the UK if he needed to prove that.
For the record this happened to us in Japan too but we've not gone back there to know if it's an issue :)
If anyone has any experience with this, advice would be gratefully received. I know it's ultimately not a big deal (he has plenty of time to get a British passport as he's not travelling til September) but I'd like to know what I need to nag him about *wink* I leave in a few days and want to be able to arrange things for him before I go.
(Yeah I know I am going for a lonnnng time but my dad is being treated for cancer so I want to be there with him.)
We're going to the US again this year.
That was on his Australian passport which has since expired. He hasn't decided if he wants to travel on his new Australian passport (b/c then he won't have to be fingerprinted again and whatnot) or if there will be problems and he should just get a British passport. (Technically that would speed things up at the return except that he still goes through non-EU lines with me anyway as we will be travelling back together but I will be entering the US before him.)
He'll be flying into Raleigh-Durham (RDU) so I don't know if they would be forgiving about him not having turned in the card at Newark, or if it will even matter since it's another passport. He does have a stamp (in the old passport, that has the visa waiver form) proving that he arrived back in the UK if he needed to prove that.
For the record this happened to us in Japan too but we've not gone back there to know if it's an issue :)
If anyone has any experience with this, advice would be gratefully received. I know it's ultimately not a big deal (he has plenty of time to get a British passport as he's not travelling til September) but I'd like to know what I need to nag him about *wink* I leave in a few days and want to be able to arrange things for him before I go.
(Yeah I know I am going for a lonnnng time but my dad is being treated for cancer so I want to be there with him.)