Overstaying European Visa: Will US Immigration Find Out?

[yoyoma8 0]

I'm an American studying in Poland. My girlfriend is from Russia, and she is here with me, though her Polish visa is soon to expire. Next year she plans to follow me to America to attend an American school, but in the meantime, if she overstayed her Polish visa, presumably incurring European penalties upon leaving, would it affect her petition for a US visa? Will US immigration run an international background check on her, and if they discover that she overstayed her visa in Poland, will she be rejected as if she had overstayed a US visa?

To anyone who has had any experience with this sort of situation, thanks in advance.

[Saddle Bronc 124]

No--the Poland visa has nothing to do with US immigration or its laws.

[Harsh_77 716]

Saddle - I dont completely agree with you. If CO can figure out that she has overstayed her visa does not matter what country it is, she is more then likely going to do the same in future.

CO might not grant a visa in that case.

Here is the story happen with someone I really know well - This guys works in globally well know MNC and he had applied for (I believe it was Macedonia, I could be wrong about name of country but it was a small country)and while the interview CO fould some papers were fake,(this were put in by travel agent without knowledge of my friend)at end they refused him the visa. ok so far fine now he was supposed to travel with me on B1 to US and somehow CO at Mumbai consulate had this prior record and she asked him if his visa was ever rejected and what was the cause?

My friend told CO the truth and she was like yep that what I have - agent had faked the papers.

I could not believe that they had this info and all this had happened like couple years back.

[Robert B 1]

I tend to agree with Harsh_77 behavior in the past is usually a good indication of the behavior in the future. When she goes for her J1 or F1 interview she has to show that she has all the intentions of returning home. This is difficult to do when you already overstayed another visa.