Can I appeal the cancellation?
Persons may not have to selfisolate when they arrive in England if they are travelling from one of the countries or territories listed below. That is because these countries and territories are either:
• Covered by the travel corridor exemption;
• Within the common travel area – Ireland, the Channel Islands, the Isle of Man;
• British overseas territories.
Persons will need to selfisolate if they had visited or had made a transit stop in a country or territory that is not on the travel corridor list you were given on a couple of basis. One is that when you arrived at the airport in 2019, you probably told the Customs and Border Protection (CBP) officer that you were coming to the United States for a visit, and I doubt that you told the officer that you were going to stay in America for four months. When a visitor arrives in the United States with a US visa, they are often given six months as the duration of stay, although they said they were visiting for a lesser period. The six months is given as a convenience to the visitor, in the event they must stay beyond the one or two weeks of their vacation. So many persons see the six months and think they can extend their stay, and if they do not stay beyond the six months, that is, overstay – they are in compliance with their visa.
Second, you did work in the United States if you helped a friend on a painting job and received money for your assistance. Some only consider it working if you report to a job every day and are paid regularly. ‘Working’ is any labour performed in exchange for compensation. Many persons have lost their visas because they mistakenly believe that they only occasionally assisted someone or accompanied someone on a job and only got a small amount of money. Working while in the United States on a visitor’s visa is a violation of that visa and can, and will, lead to the cancellation of the visa or a renewal denial.
There is almost always an automatic assumption that a person who spends four months in America worked during that period, because not many persons can afford to take four months off from work without any income. I strongly suggest to persons who can afford to take months off from their work or business to ensure that they travel with evidence of how they supported themselves in America during any period of extended stay.
When a non-immigrant visa is cancelled or denied, the applicant can reapply with a non-immigrant waiver if they have evidence to refute the reason for the cancellation or denial, and they can prove that they are not a danger to the United States. Even then, it is not guaranteed that the visa will be reissued.