Overstay. How do they know?

there are cases, when people were leaving the US with overstayed visa without their I-94 being submitted (for whatever reason) and then succesfully got a new one to come back.

Q: When applying for a new visa how do consulate people know if that visa was overstayed? Assuming of course there were no stamps in passport when leaving, no fingerprints taken etc.

There would probably be a record somewhere that you flew out of the country. I don't know if there is a scan on your passport or whether the info is taken when you purchase the flight ticket. Once they check your id or passport and you board that plane, the Stupid and I'm guessing the government knows that you left the country.

Hoping you or someone might know this... what if a Canadian were to drive back across the border to Canada from US - would the US have any record of exit/entry? Do those two countries exchange that type of info? Thank you.

essdee wrote:Hoping you or someone might know this... what if a Canadian were to drive back across the border to Canada from US - would the US have any record of exit/entry? Do those two countries exchange that type of info? Thank you.

You should open your own thread rather than hijack someone else's.

Marco 72 wrote: You should open your own thread rather than hijack someone else's.

Well it was almost exactly the same question (except about land travel, instead of air). And I did open a new thread - no replies. Thanks anyway.

essdee wrote:

Marco 72 wrote: You should open your own thread rather than hijack someone else's.

Well it was almost exactly the same question (except about land travel, instead of air). And I did open a new thread - no replies. Thanks anyway.

Your question is actually very different. Airline passenger lists are shared with the government, that's why even when VWP travellers had to hand in their I94W stub before boarding, it wasn't strictly necessary to do so. However, I have no idea what happens at the US-Canada border. If it's anything like the US-Mexico border, then there are no exit checks.

You may want to ask on the following forum, which has higher traffic:

http://britishexpats.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=34

usually when u leave any country thy dnt stamp ur passport....but when u arrive to ur destination and u had to go through immigration..at tht time thy stamp and give entry clearnce.....so the time calculates when u arrive to usa(stamped) and left.....reach ur home country(stamped).

the US immigration will check the database in your file if you passport is expired which means you overstay this country without renew your passport.

This will might help, I'm sure you will understand.

http://www.spammer.com/

When you enter US, you'll be provided with Form I-94 which is the arrival and departure document, which will keep track of all the details about when you supposed to departure.

If you don't have any Form I-94 use Form I-102 to replace the lost Form I-94.