You are correct. I hadn't thought of that restriction. So how did the one-way ticket get approval?
Gibson?
We don't KNOW that he had a one-way ticket (Do we?).
We speculated that he did because of the "He was going to go to stay in the Bahamas and go to school" story that we think Howard concocted to cover that.
My son traveled the world for several years. These were maybe two month trips...but he was in Japan for a year. All his tickets were one way.
I just don't buy the story at all. Especially since Daniel was on flying commercial flight.
But then if Gibson had his people buy the ticket and Fedex it to Daniel in California, maybe??? But then why not send a plane to pick him up if they were going to go into all that kind of trouble? Or have an "handler" fly with him to take care of the immigration. I do know a bit about CBP and it is not easy even for very rich and connected people! Rules are rules. I think the story is made-up personally. It just fits more into the story HKS is spinning.