Different dates in Passport and I-94

[CM&KV 72]

My boyfriend entered the USA last month on a B1 with a sub category that is "in-lieu of H" this allows him to be here for his company and earn a per diem. When he entered the county he was given a hard time but an officer stating that the visa type he was entering on didn't even exist. They ended up letting him enter the USA after 2 hours in secondary. He was afraid he was going to be sent back to Russia. In his passport it has it stamped as B1 and the exit date as 91 days later. But on his I-94, it states his expiration date as 180 days after entering the USA. He called someone to get a confirm. I don't recall where he says he called. But he is contacting another someone for more info. I really want to suggest to him to go by the website and and get an infopass to get his passport updated with the 180 days marked in it.

 

Anyone have any suggestions?

[millefleur 5,047]

I had to look it up but apparently the 'B-1 in lie if H-1B' does exist. Huh. I read that they usually give people on that type of visa a hard time because immigrant intent is assumed, whereas that's not the case usually with a normal B-1/B-2.

 

Maybe the Infopass appointment is a good idea? Or you could consider contacting an immigration lawyer.

[Mollie09 1,543]

If you're close to an international airport, might be worth going to the CBP office there to get it corrected.

[az2014 381]

The website is correct.

 

Dont bother wasting time getting it corrected in the passport, human error.

 

Happened to me before on my B2.

[CM&KV 72]

He's afraid that while the data was being entered someone auto put in the 180 days and not what's written on his visa. We don't want an overstay. But I guess the company's lawyers are going to handle it from here, hopefully they know more about it than I do, since they send a lot of people over to the USA for projects etc. There is a meeting about it this Monday, and good thing we are about an hour drive to the international airport.

 

But yeah I didn't know about the subcategory till he sent me a picture of his visa, I thought he was going to get a b1/b2 issued, and his Visa is only good for one year.

[CM&KV 72]

As a quick update.

 

Yesterday, my boy friend got his passport updated to the 6 months mark, after emails back and forth from the CBP. They ended up asking for a managers letter stating that this company wanted to get him fully extended for the 6 months since the I-94 states 6 months and the passport states 3 months, and the current project he is in is taking longer than expected. And scanned copies of his passport, unsure if it was those pages or the whole thing.

 

I don't know the exact wording of the letter. I just know it took us 2 weeks to get a letter from his boss' boss. And then the CBP replied about 3 days later to come on in.

 

Also he says they gave him a new I-94 print out stating the change in passport, they gave him a brand new stamp and it states that it was done at the inspector's office, and old stamp crossed out.

Edited July 28, 2017 by CM&KV