Traveling to the U.S for 7 days in March with ESTA visa and making another trip to the U.S in June. Can I be denied entry?

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The official rules are clear as mud:

When traveling to the U.S. with the approved ESTA, you may only stay for up to 90 days at a time - and there should be a reasonable amount of time between visits so that the CBP Officer does not think you are trying to live here. There is no set requirement for how long you must wait between visits.

If he is not trying to live in the United States, and can actually show evidence that he will return to his home country at the end of the visit, then he should be fine. Such evidence might be something like a university admission, or documentation of anything else that would require his presence outside the US.

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A foreigner entering the US (especially a visitor) can always be denied entry. There is nothing inherently problematic with his pattern of travel. It is very reasonable to have visited the US for a few days, and then after a space of a few months later to visit again. People visit more frequently than that with no problem. It's not like he's trying to do a visa run (stay for almost the 90 days, leave for a few days, and then come again).

A bigger potential source for problems, in my opinion, is the fact that he is coming to the US to visit his US-citizen significant other. It's so easy for you guys to decide to get married on a whim, after which he can stay, so that poses immigrant intent issues.

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