Hello all,
My Thai girlfriend was approved for a tourist visa and is planning to come to the US at the end of the month. She was planning to stay for two weeks then go back. I live in Thailand but I'm in the US until October.
She was supposed to be coming with her friend but then her friend had some things come up and now can't go. She was planning to visit me, meet family etc, but also go around with her friend to some other cities because her friend knows people there.
Now that her friend isn't going she was planning to stay with me for a bit and we'll do some traveling. She already has the first 4 nights booked at a hotel, but after she was just going to stay at my place until she goes back. She's worried that because she's traveling alone and staying with me instead of booking hotels for the entire trip, she'll arouse suspicion from the immigration officers in the airport. She's concerned that they will want to see her entire itinerary, including bookings for hotels the entire time that she's in the US. She told me that immigration officers don't want to hear that you're staying with your boyfriend because they think you're likely to overstay.
Does anyone have any experience with how US immigration officers scrutinize visitors from Thailand? A woman in her early thirties traveling solo into the US from Thailand.