Visiting girlfriend with a B1/B2 visa regularly
I am a Turkish citizen holding a US B1/B2 visa living in Canada. My girlfriend is a Canadian citizen, holding a TN-1 visa, will be living in US in a few months. We will be visiting each other with frequent intervals (2 day visits one a month to both directions with a few potential outliers). I heard that frequent visit to partners can be considered as "intent the immigrate" by border people. How likely is it for this to cause me problems since my partner is residing in US under a non immigrant visa? Is frequent visits with full disclosed intent likely to cause problems?
Will she have problems with US border when returning to US if she leaves frequently under a TN visa?
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Someone asked in a deleted answer, how my experience was in practice so posting this as an alternate answer.
Henning Makholm's answer was basically correct. The border people were never adversarial so I never even bothered to bring the I-94 copy. Looking at it now, I have 24 entries into the US since June 2016 and never spent more than 5 minutes with the border people.
Note that this is from Vancouver airport so the border folks I dealt with were the ones stationed in Vancouver. Not sure how the culture differs between different points of entry, so no harm in going in prepared.
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