Australian detained in US for overstaying visa by 90 minutes - Polidicks

[QUOTE=OvB;52176894]He did not make it to Canada. He didn't even get through the door. Immigration is a double door. You go through the US side, and then through the Canada side. His brief stay in Canada was not as a permitted person as he was not allowed entry. If were going to keep using the work analogy, he made it to the office, but the security guard at the door couldn't validate his ID and turned him away. If Canada turned him away the previous day, he would've had 24 hours to figure out why and corrected it, and/or fly to a different country to satisfy his requirement.[/QUOTE] I'm not saying that his brief stay in Canada fulfilled his visa requirements. I'm saying that he had made it to that point in time, but the only reason he wasn't allowed entry was because the officials (seemingly without good reason) denied his entry, with the stated reason being a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy - "Your US Visa is about to expire because we're not letting you in, so we won't let you in" (when, if they had let him in, it would not have been expired). Back to your analogy... if you made it to the office in time but your ID wasn't working, that wouldn't be your fault. Your employer wouldn't be in the right to reprimand you. [editline]2nd May 2017[/editline] [QUOTE=OvB;52176919]I mean, in this case the USA is just following their own laws. It's not our fault or problem that another country turned him around. You can't give special treatment in this sort of thing. The best thing they [I]maybe[/I] could've done would be let him hover around the waiting room in limbo and figure out why he was denied entry. But at the end of the day if he can't get into Canada, they can't let him leave that office without being detained.[/QUOTE] I'm not really putting the blame on the US, I'm putting it on the Canadian officials who turned him away.

[QUOTE=Glent;52176908] I'm not really putting the blame on the US, I'm putting it on the Canadian officials who turned him away.[/QUOTE] Well yeah, that's clear. I don't know why Canada would do such a thing. My eTA explanation was trying to come up with a valid reason for turning someone around. Maybe his eTA was about to expire (I don't even know if they can) or something and the distraught relatives interpreted that as the visa almost expiring. Either way, we probably won't know Canada's reasoning on it. Shitty situation for the guy. But I can't stress enough not to wait around and do important government-related things at the last second. They will find a way to fuck you.

ya fuck those illegals always trying to come here just to go somewhere else!

This is contrary to my experience, we went a day over our 90 day visa waiver and were put in business class to get us out quicker. Win/Win.

Why is it even necessary to leave the country every six months if you have a five year visa...

[QUOTE=OvB;52176804]Also, that's not how deadlines work. A deadline is not flexible. A deadline is the last period with which you can do something. If my teacher gives me a 6 month project and I turn it in in 6 months + 20 minutes, I'm turning in late work. If My boss requires me to be to work at 8:00, and I get there at 8:15, I am late for work. If I do that a lot I will get fired for being a shit employee.[/QUOTE] You show up to work 7:58, your boss doesn't let you in but chats with you for ten minutes and then fires you for being late Your fault for not reserving more wiggle room tho

[QUOTE=DogGunn;52177525]Why is it even necessary to leave the country every six months if you have a five year visa...[/QUOTE] this makes me wonder if i travel to canada just like that i'd be okay to stay there for 6 months. so if i just visit the us for a bit and return to canada would i be go for another 6 months?

What the fuck

[QUOTE=Glent;52176798]The reason they didn't let him in was because the visa was about to expire (according to OP - if it's the eTA as you mentioned before, there's no indication of that being the case) - and it only expired because they chose not to let him in.[/QUOTE] There could very well be much more to the story than that. Canada has extremely strict entry requirements, if you've had even so much as one misdemeanor charge in the last 10 years IIRC, IE Drunk driving, etc, you can't enter Canada. I'd like to know the full details before I really judge the matter, yeah it seems stupid from the info given, but I'd like to know more all things considered.

Wait, so... They didn't let him leave the US, because he stayed in the US for too long? And too long = 90 minutes? Did I read it right? So they essentialy made him stay for even longer, even though he was about to leave as soon as possible? :v: what

[QUOTE=Lollipoopdeck;52176519]holy shit, Futurama was right bureaucrats are becoming more strict, soon if your visa expires by over a minute you'll be sent straight to the concentration ca.. holiday resort. for real tho, kinda dumb[/QUOTE] you're really invoking nazi concentration camps over someone being detained for overstaying his visa?