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Kseniia   0

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My story is long, but I will try to make it short.

I was a student with J-1 visa. Met my husband here in USA.

Stayed for him but our relationships was on and off for a 1 year.

Finaly we got married in February.

I started work on my papers and I dont know....WHAT MY CURRENT IMMIGRATION STATUS...

& also what is my ELIGIBILITY CATEGORY.

PLEASE HELP ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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DaniG   3

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My story is long, but I will try to make it short.

I was a student with J-1 visa. Met my husband here in USA.

Stayed for him but our relationships was on and off for a 1 year.

Finaly we got married in February.

I started work on my papers and I dont know....WHAT MY CURRENT IMMIGRATION STATUS...

& also what is my ELIGIBILITY CATEGORY.

PLEASE HELP ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Kseniia,

Your current status would be J-1 (exchange visitor) if that was the visa you entered with and you didn't adjust status after that. If you are out of status, you can write "J-1 overstayed" I think - someone who has done that may comment.

Eligibility category would be ©(9).

10/07/2007 Entered the US on J-1 visa

11/03/2008 Changed status to F-1

02/14/2010 Married

03/15/2010 Filed AOS (from F-1)

05/27/2010 AOS approved, GC Issued

02/28/2012 Mailed I-751 (Removal of Conditions)

03/01/2012 I-751 received by CSC/NOA Issued

03/15/2012 Biometrics letter sent

04/12/2012 Biometrics appointment per letter

05/27/2012 GC expires

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mjaskiew   8

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My friend is in the same situation and that's what we wrote in his I-765: J-1 Overstay and c9. However, we are now stuck on the question about previous employment authorizations. J-1 allows you to work for a certain period of time. Should we consider this as a previous employment authorization? If yes, then what should we write in the box where they're asking about which USCIS office issued the previous authorization? The visa itself is a work authorization and when you enter the country you do not need to apply for anything else but the SS#.... Anybody can help us with this qustion?

Thank you!

Green card through employment in EB2 category approved in July 2011

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Brother Hesekiel   2,236

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Of all the words I would not enter in any immigration form, "overstay" must be the number 2, only to be trumped by "illegal."

The visa status is "J-1" and the employment authorization is "no."

The reason the immigration people ask for the visa status is that they want to see how somebody entered the US, with a visa, or in the trunk of a car, being very silent, a.k.a. "entered without inspection" (EWI), which makes the applicant ineligible for AOS.

There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all . . . . The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English-Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian-Americans or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality, than with the other citizens of the American Republic . . . . There is no such thing as a hyphenated American who is a good American. The only man who is a good American is the man who is an American and nothing else.

President Teddy Roosevelt on Columbus Day 1915

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Bobby+Umit   161

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My story is long, but I will try to make it short.

I was a student with J-1 visa. Met my husband here in USA.

Stayed for him but our relationships was on and off for a 1 year.

Finaly we got married in February.

I started work on my papers and I dont know....WHAT MY CURRENT IMMIGRATION STATUS...

& also what is my ELIGIBILITY CATEGORY.

PLEASE HELP ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Are you subject to the 2 year Residence Requirement?

If you are, you would need a waiver for that.

My Advice is usually based on "Worst Case Scenario" and what is written in the rules/laws/instructions. That is the way I roll... -Protect your Status - file before your I-94 expires.

WARNING: Phrases in this post may sound meaner than they were intended to be. Read the Adjudicator's Field Manual from USCIS

 
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