[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 8, Volume 1]
[Revised as of January 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 8CFR217.3]

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                     TITLE 8--ALIENS AND NATIONALITY
 
      CHAPTER I--DEPARTMENT OF HOMELAND SECURITY (IMMIGRATION AND 
                             NATURALIZATION)
 
PART 217_VISA WAIVER PROGRAM--Table of Contents
 
Sec.  217.3  Maintenance of status.

    (a) Satisfactory departure. If an emergency prevents an alien 
admitted under this part from departing from the United States within 
his or her period of authorized stay, the district director having 
jurisdiction over the place of the alien's temporary stay may, in his or 
her discretion, grant a period of satisfactory departure not to exceed 
30 days. If departure is accomplished during that period, the alien is 
to be regarded as having satisfactorily accomplished the visit without 
overstaying the allotted time.
    (b) Readmission after departure to contiguous territory or adjacent 
island. An alien admitted to the United States under this part may be 
readmitted to the United States after a departure to foreign contiguous 
territory or adjacent island for the balance of his or her original Visa 
Waiver Pilot Program admission period if he or she is otherwise 
admissible and meets all the conditions of this part with the exception 
of arrival on a signatory carrier.

[62 FR 10351, Mar. 6, 1997]