Can I just wait in the checked-in baggage lane before passing immigration to shift the number of days of staying in US?

4/6/2017 6:27:20 PM

If you arrive at LAX internationally, you will be in a corridor between the gate and the immigration desks. There are nothing but bathrooms before immigration, and immigration is before baggage reclaim and customs. To delay your purported arrival until the next day, you’d be abandoning your bag for 7 hours and probably be hanging around in the bathroom to avoid being approached by security to find out what you’re up to.

According to a post on flyertalk and another on lonelyplanet and probably your own previous VWP stamps, your entry date is day 0, so it looks like you’d be fine with 90 days. That is of course providing CBP is ok with you staying for the maximum possible time on the VWP.

Update: I just googled some images of a VWP passport stamp that has both arrival and admitted to date and got two different ranges. One gave 91 days according to a date duration calculator, and another gave 90.

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