cit100 said:You do not currently hold a visa. You have been admitted to the US as an applicant for adjustment and your current status is "paroled into the US pending adjustment of status to permanent resident" or just "paroled." If you look at your I-94 card, it will have a red parole stamp on it, not the normal red and blue admission stamp.
You are applying for permanent residence. Since it's through adjustment of status, and not consular processing, there is no visa stamp in your passport involved. The green card is an immigrant visa.
People often get confused between visas and status. You can be in the US without a valid visa, but you (generally) can't be in the US legally without status. I say generally because there are grey areas that fall under the "period of stay authorized by the attorney general" rule. Typically this is when a USCIS application was filed while you were in status, but that status has now expired due to the length of time the USCIS took to process the application.
The date of expiration of status is given by the date written on the I-94 card by the CPB officer who admitted you.
Hey cit100,
If I'm not mistaken, I remember you leaving the country before your interview and re-entering under H1B.
What happened at the interview? Did the officer say anything about a different I-94 (different than the one you submitted with the application)?
Thanks