Immigration officers do not turn away visa holders because they are in a bad mood. They must have a legitimate reason to believe something is fishy about the visa holder's visit, and then they have to get supervisory approval to send the person back.A10 wrote: ↑Tue Jun 25, 2019 6:53 am
Basically she had her visa in hand, but the immigration officer wouldn't stamp her passport and told her to go home. After some (angry) arguing on my part (which probably didn't help), we were told to take a hike and that the decision was final.
Only thing I can think of is that the immigration officer was in a very bad mood at the time as my wife has land, a business in her name and a healthy bank account balance. She also has been to the U.S. multiple times before so, I'll just chalk the last time we tried to go due to bad luck.
How many times had she been to the USA before and for how long and what was the reason for her trip and how long was she planning on staying? They don't like when travelers are trying to live in the USA for months every year on tourist visas. They must have had good reason to suspect she would work in the USA or would overstay or something like that. Did she at least have a return ticket for two weeks later?