[Code of Federal Regulations]

[Title 8, Volume 1]

[Revised as of January 1, 2006]

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

 

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]