Coming from Canada to visit friend in Ocean City Maryland

[Not a Tailor 1,370]

Everyone thinks I should be good to go then?

Yes. You have not got a single dissenting opinion and you won't.

[superstang01 0]

Thanks everyone. Tomorrow is the day im leaving

[LiliBurd 85]

Just don't volunteer any information they don't ask... you sound like you are slightly paranoid Relax!

I am engaged to US Citizen and I visit every 2 months or so, I'm always prepared with evidence but was only asked for it once. As it was already mentioned, most of the time the questions go like this: Business or Pleasure? How long are you staying? What do you do for work? Thank you have a good time.

Answer the questions they ask politely and you should be good to go.

Have a fun trip.

[superstang01 0]

Thanks again everyone. Had a great trip

I am officially dating this girl now and I am supposed to go back and visit again for the weekend on April 23-26

Will the fact that we are officially dating change the questioning I receive at the border? Should I continue to tell them that I am going to visit a friend? Or going to visit my girlfriend?

Thanks

[superstang01 0]

I'm not sure if this statistic is true, but I read that once you mention a girlfriend you have a 99% chance of being denied entry

[Not a Tailor 1,370]

Don't tell them anything they don't ask, but don't lie. If they ask what you're doing, say you're visiting someone--call this someone by name if you want--but if they ask how that person is related to you, say your girlfriend, NOT your friend. Misrepresentation can screw you over. I had a boyfriend in university who attended the Rochester Institute of Technology. I always said, when visiting, that I was visiting my boyfriend and, when we were briefly engaged (ha, that didn't last for us--I was way too young and we were both not ready) I said fiancé. No one bugged me because I had proof of ties to Canada--I was attending university myself. Take proof of ties, you'll be fine. The advice has not changed.

[superstang01 0]

Don't tell them anything they don't ask, but don't lie. If they ask what you're doing, say you're visiting someone--call this someone by name if you want--but if they ask how that person is related to you, say your girlfriend, NOT your friend. Misrepresentation can screw you over. I had a boyfriend in university who attended the Rochester Institute of Technology. I always said, when visiting, that I was visiting my boyfriend and, when we were briefly engaged (ha, that didn't last for us--I was way too young and we were both not ready) I said fiancé. No one bugged me because I had proof of ties to Canada--I was attending university myself. Take proof of ties, you'll be fine. The advice has not changed.

Thanks! So it's not s huge deal like people make it out to be as long as I have ties to Canada? I only asked because I read about it before and some people were making a really big deal over it

[superstang01 0]

I've read that 99% of people going to visit a boyfriend/girlfriend are automatically turned away. Is this statistic overkill?

[Not a Tailor 1,370]

I've read that 99% of people going to visit a boyfriend/girlfriend are automatically turned away. Is this statistic overkill?

It is CERTAINLY overkill. Absolutely overkill. People who are engaged or married regularly travel back and forth, why would a girlfriend or boyfriend be such a higher statistic? That makes no sense. Stop scaring yourself, you're fine.

[Teddy B 17,251]

Thanks! So it's not s huge deal like people make it out to be as long as I have ties to Canada? I only asked because I read about it before and some people were making a really big deal over it

I've read that 99% of people going to visit a boyfriend/girlfriend are automatically turned away. Is this statistic overkill?

You're making this much harder than it needs to be. Just answer the questions they ask you truthfully and you'll be fine. I travelled back and forth to Canada for over two years, every time telling them I was visiting my girlfriend, I was never denied entry. (I was pulled into secondary twice for further questioning, but it had nothing to do with me saying that "I was visiting my girlfriend")

[superstang01 0]

Does any one have an example invitation letter? Does it have to be hand written or can she email me one?

[canadian_wife 1,791]

Invitation letters are irrelevant

Just GO! How much hand holding do you need?

Good luck - enjoy your trip

[yuna628 9,530]

You don't need an invitation letter. If we had to write invitation letters every time we've visited each other for ten years, we'd have quite a stack sitting on CBP's desk, and a lot of dead trees. You're visiting a friend, a girlfriend, or a fiancé -- it all doesn't really matter, so long as you've got proof of going back home.

[superstang01 0]

Will making 2 trips close together be suspicious?

[Not a Tailor 1,370]

No, it won't, unless you go over the 180 days I think it is that Canadians are permitted to be in the US out of each calendar year. Stop being so nervous. Being nervous is suspicious.