Out of status student married U.S. Citizen applying for a GC
I entered U.S. on F-1 Student Visa. I attended English language school in Los Angeles for three month and after I finished a course I transferred to another language school in New York. However the school in NY wasn’t anything like school in LA, there we actually were learning something. I felt like I got ripped off and I was wasting my time, but I was told that I cannot transfer to another school until I finish the course. During that 3 month in NY I was in a long distance relationship with a guy I met in Los Angeles. Originally, he was from Oregon, where he was attending college. During our separate time I flew back to LA for a weekend to see him, when he was taking care of his business down there. When we decided that we want to be together and after I finish the course I’ll move with him to Oregon. I couldn’t wait to be done with school and go to Oregon. Finally I finished the course and I went to student adviser and told that I want to transfer to another school, she told me to leave the transfer form at I-20 department and they will fax it to school,she didn`t say anything else. So I moved to Oregon and I had 60 days to start a new school. After I contacted a new school, they said that they didn’t get my transfer form. I asked again for my transfer paper, but we didn’t receive it and my new school said that whey will take care of that. But the time I could stay out of school was almost over and then the news came from NY that supposedly my attendance wasn’t good enough and they can’t transfer me. If I won’t come back and take another course, they will put me out of status. They only wanted more money as all this school was about. I was so mad because that was only point of me staying in New York for that long cause I wanted to maintain my legal status and now I was in a situation like I’ve never even was where. I hired attorney who tried to encourage transferring my papers, however that didn’t help and I was put out of status. My new school said that I can reinstate my student status. At the same time I and my boyfriend were thinking about getting married so I haven’t filed for reinstatement since we were going to file for permanent residency after we get married.
Now we are married and at our first step to file for the green card. Some applications ask about current status and I started worrying about my applications for a permanent residency being denied if I wrote that I am Out of Status.Can I be approved being out of status?
I entered U.S. on F-1 Student Visa. I attended English language school in Los Angeles for three month and after I finished a course I transferred to another language school in New York. However the school in NY wasn’t anything like school in LA, there we actually were learning something. I felt like I got ripped off and I was wasting my time, but I was told that I cannot transfer to another school until I finish the course. During that 3 month in NY I was in a long distance relationship with a guy I met in Los Angeles. Originally, he was from Oregon, where he was attending college. During our separate time I flew back to LA for a weekend to see him, when he was taking care of his business down there. When we decided that we want to be together and after I finish the course I’ll move with him to Oregon. I couldn’t wait to be done with school and go to Oregon. Finally I finished the course and I went to student adviser and told that I want to transfer to another school, she told me to leave the transfer form at I-20 department and they will fax it to school,she didn`t say anything else. So I moved to Oregon and I had 60 days to start a new school. After I contacted a new school, they said that they didn’t get my transfer form. I asked again for my transfer paper, but we didn’t receive it and my new school said that whey will take care of that. But the time I could stay out of school was almost over and then the news came from NY that supposedly my attendance wasn’t good enough and they can’t transfer me. If I won’t come back and take another course, they will put me out of status. They only wanted more money as all this school was about. I was so mad because that was only point of me staying in New York for that long cause I wanted to maintain my legal status and now I was in a situation like I’ve never even was where. I hired attorney who tried to encourage transferring my papers, however that didn’t help and I was put out of status. My new school said that I can reinstate my student status. At the same time I and my boyfriend were thinking about getting married so I haven’t filed for reinstatement since we were going to file for permanent residency after we get married.
Now we are married and at our first step to file for the green card. Some applications ask about current status and I started worrying about my applications for a permanent residency being denied if I wrote that I am Out of Status.Can I be approved being out of status?
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