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US visa
OK, so I am a US citizen living in a foreign country. We have been planning a two-week trip back to the states along with a friend that is from the country I live in now. Today he went to get his US visa, and since he is young and just got out of high school they classified him as high risk and gave him the visa for just one week. My question is, is there anything we can do about this? I mean, he had to pay 150 dollars to get the visa interview, and then when he tells them he needs it for a two-week trip they only give him the visa for one! I've seen online that you can apply for visa extensions, but it seems like those are only for really long stays, where you need to apply months in advance to get the extension. Also, if he stayed illegally for one more week, is there anything they could do about it? or is it better not to risk that?
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It depends on what country he's coming from. If its a country like Great Britain or Australia, staying over a week extra probably won't cause any waves. He could say an emergency came up and he couldn't arrange transportation to the airport before then. But if its a country on the watch list, like a middle-east country, than staying the extra week could result in his being detained and questioned at customs, or denied re-entry to the U.S. in the future. If I were coming from somewhere like Canada or the U.K., I'd just say "screw it" and go. But anywhere else is taking a pretty big risk.
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