I've been warned to leave the US within 10 days as I will "overstay" my visa, but I have legally left the country by plane months ago. What can I do?

4/28/2020 9:40:59 PM

As others have suggested, first check your I-94 departure record. If something has gone wrong and your departure has not been recorded properly, it will show up there.

If the system is showing incorrect information, the FAQ from CBP has a section for that:

If you feel this information is incorrect, you have two options:

You can contact the CBP Traveler Communications Center at (202) 325-5120.

You can formally write to the Department of Homeland Security’s Travel Redress Inquiry Program (DHS TRIP). DHS TRIP is a single point
of contact for individuals who have inquiries or seek resolution
regarding difficulties they experienced during their travel screening
at transportation hubs, like airports and train stations, or crossing
U.S. borders, including: denied or delayed airline boarding, denied or
delayed entry into and exit from the United States at a port of entry
or border checkpoint continuously referred to additional (secondary)
screening.

You can contact DHS Traveler Redress Inquiry Program (DHS TRIP) at
http://www.dhs.gov/trip.

Or, by mail at the following address: DHS Traveler Redress Inquiry
Program (TRIP) 601 South 12th Street, TSA-901 Arlington, VA 22202

Regardless, I would hold on to whatever evidence you can indicating that you left the US (this can include evidence that you’re back home now). If they can’t fix it for you over the phone, you can submit your evidence to DHS TRIP through their online form and ask that the records be corrected.

4/28/2020 7:07:41 PM

I would suggest to check your I-94 record, which is a record of your entry and exit into the United States. https://i94.cbp.dhs.gov/I94/#/recent-search
If this is updated to the date you left USA, then that will be your official document for proving you left. If it is not then its an administrative error and you probably should contact US immigration with all your travel proof, especially the proof that you entered back into your country which will be the stamp on you passport. Also if your I-94 is not updated, it will cause trouble for your future visits, so its better to have it done anyways

4/29/2020 2:23:54 PM

First, check that this is a genuine warning. Check it for the usual signs of a scam email (faked “from” address, links you to a website that does not end in .gov). Contact US immigration on a publicly available email or number (not by any contact that you were given in the warning) and check with them.

If it turns out it is genuine, it is probably not as serious as you think. It’s most likely just an administrative mixup.

When you contact immigration they will tell you what you need to do, but most likely if you simply give them the date and flight number when you left that will be the end of it. They will almost certainly be able to verify that you were on that flight, and that will probably be the end of the matter.

Also remember that, even if for some reason they don’t believe that you left on the flight you did, you don’t need to prove you left on that flight, you only need to prove you left before the end of your legal stay, ten days from now. The easiest way to do that is probably to make some sort of visit to someone official, like a government office or the police or a lawyer, where your visit will be recorded and you can provide information. But something as simple as records of an everyday transaction will help – a few records of you using your credit card in your hometown is going to be evidence, and is probably good enough.

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