What is the I-94?

[Firstenburg 0]

My wife's I-130 and K3 were both approved in June, and she entered the US on the K3 visa. She has been in the US for almost 6 months now. We're applying for her AOS, and on the list of documents to include is an "I94". Also an I94 # is required on the I-485 form. But to my knowledge we never received any I-94. I've kept and filed every scrap of paper the gubahmint has sent us. And no I94 in our collection.

What is it and who should I contact if we haven't received it by mistake?

[TayRivers 4]

My wife's I-130 and K3 were both approved in June, and she entered the US on the K3 visa. She has been in the US for almost 6 months now. We're applying for her AOS, and on the list of documents to include is an "I94". Also an I94 # is required on the I-485 form. But to my knowledge we never received any I-94. I've kept and filed every scrap of paper the gubahmint has sent us. And no I94 in our collection. What is it and who should I contact if we haven't received it by mistake

The I-94 card is the white card she filled out on the flight, It should be stapled in her passport.

Edited December 3, 2008 by TayRivers

[Firstenburg 0]

The I-94 card is the white card she filled out on the flight, It should be stapled in her passport.

*W-H-E-W*

Thank you very much. When I realized which document it was, I didn't remember keeping it. So I checked her passport, and as you predicted, it is stapled there across from her visa. Interestingly, Wikipedia has this to say about I-94:

"Contrary to a popular misconception, it is not the U.S. visa stamp, but rather the stamped form I-94, that authorizes the alien's stay in the United States in a particular non-immigrant status and for a particular period of time."

... which made me even more nervous until I found it.