Hi!
I'm relatively new to this site so I figure the first thing I should do is introduce myself. I'm Solveig from Norway, currently under an F-1 status.
Anyways, my problem is that I might not get to stay in America as long as I had hoped due to some bad information I recieved from my international students expert at the University I studied at. I went to talk to him because I wanted to change my status from student F-1 to tourist B-2. I thought I had to fill out an I-539 and apply, but he said that was not nessecary. He said that since I am from a Visa Vaiwer country there should be no problem as long as I travel to a different country within the 60 days after my I-20 had expired. My I-20 expired Apr 30th. It is Now june 17th, and today I called border controll to confirm his information. They told me the information given to me was wrong and that I was not allowed to travel anywhere when I was in my grace period. As you can imagine this was rather frustrating. Granted, I could have called a whole lot earlier to confirm what he had said, but silly naive little me belived what this man told me.
Now I am desperately hoping that I'll still have time to send my I-539 application. I called them today as well where they told me that I needed to check the expiration date on my I-94, and that if the date was good I could send in my application. Problem is I don't know where to look on my I-94
I really don't want to travel back home and then back up to America again and then back home again. I hope that someone will be able to help me!
Thank you
I'm relatively new to this site so I figure the first thing I should do is introduce myself. I'm Solveig from Norway, currently under an F-1 status.Anyways, my problem is that I might not get to stay in America as long as I had hoped due to some bad information I recieved from my international students expert at the University I studied at. I went to talk to him because I wanted to change my status from student F-1 to tourist B-2. I thought I had to fill out an I-539 and apply, but he said that was not nessecary. He said that since I am from a Visa Vaiwer country there should be no problem as long as I travel to a different country within the 60 days after my I-20 had expired. My I-20 expired Apr 30th. It is Now june 17th, and today I called border controll to confirm his information. They told me the information given to me was wrong and that I was not allowed to travel anywhere when I was in my grace period. As you can imagine this was rather frustrating. Granted, I could have called a whole lot earlier to confirm what he had said, but silly naive little me belived what this man told me.
Now I am desperately hoping that I'll still have time to send my I-539 application. I called them today as well where they told me that I needed to check the expiration date on my I-94, and that if the date was good I could send in my application. Problem is I don't know where to look on my I-94
I really don't want to travel back home and then back up to America again and then back home again. I hope that someone will be able to help me!
Thank you