Visiting girlfriend with a B1/B2 visa regularly

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As you tell it, your visits are frequent but short. That's a distinctly different pattern than trying to live in the US under the guise of tourist visits -- and any halfway awake border guard ought to be able to see that difference.

The usual stories of people getting into trouble concern people who're visiting their SO for weeks or months at a time and then trying to do it again after having been home for a time that barely compares to what they're spending abroad.

For peace of mind, you may want to travel with a fresh printout of your I-94 travel history, boarding passes from recent trips, etc., such that you can show concretely that you're actually spending much more time outside the US than inside.

Oh, and definitely disclose your intent. Lying to immigration authorities is never a good idea -- so much more when the truth is a perfectly legitimate story that checks out with your travel history.

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Someone asked in a deleted answer, how my experience was in practice so posting this as an alternate answer.

Henning Makholm's answer was basically correct. The border people were never adversarial so I never even bothered to bring the I-94 copy. Looking at it now, I have 24 entries into the US since June 2016 and never spent more than 5 minutes with the border people.

Note that this is from Vancouver airport so the border folks I dealt with were the ones stationed in Vancouver. Not sure how the culture differs between different points of entry, so no harm in going in prepared.

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