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Visa Overstays
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If you enter the United States using a visa, you are expected to depart within a specified amount of time. U.S. immigration laws set a maximum amount of time that people on different types of visas may be allowed to stay for, but you'll find out the exact date by which you are expected to depart when you enter the United States. At that time, the border official will put a card into your passport called an I-94, showing your expected departure date.
While no one will come to escort you out of the United States on your departure date, there are consequences for failing to leave on time.
Consequences of a Visa Overstay
The impact of a visa overstay in the United States, and whether it can be “forgiven,” depends on the how long you stayed and what immigration benefit you are currently seeking.
Strategic considerations for tourists who believe they may have a right to a U.S. green card.
Understanding the three-and ten-year bars to returning to the U.S. after long periods of unlawful stay.
Young people face consequences for overstaying a visa, though not as severe as adults do.
When student visa holders must leave the United States, and how their period of unlawful stay is determined.
Avoiding Overstays With Visa Extensions
Learn your rights as you apply to extend your nonimmigrant status.
How and when someone can obtain the right to remain in the U.S. with nonimmigrant status.
How to apply for an extension of your U.S. stay.
Possibilities to Regain or Adjust Status After a Visa Overstay
Find out whether, despite your overstay, you might obtain a U.S. green card.
How an expired visa impacts eligibility to apply for a green card without leaving the United States.
Understanding when, in the process of obtaining a green card, you have a legal right to remain in the U.S. beyond the expiration date of your visa.
How having entered the U.S. as a student helps your application for a green card based on marriage.
Issues to consider when hoping to return to the U.S. after a visa overstay.
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