travel on expired K1 visa

[samiam95124 1]

Sorry for such a basic question, but I have sent the I-485 material in for my wife,

and her K1 visa is still valid for a few weeks. But we want to go visit her sister

for Christmas, and the visa and I-94 will definitely be expired by then. I don't think

the travel or no travel issue is even that relevant. The bottom line is, what if she

gets stopped with an expired visa? California is not a good state to be in while

speaking only Spanish with an expired visa. Should she carry a copy of the wedding

certificate around with her?

My other searches here only found the answer that "they should not be looking at

your visa in general", not all that comforting.

True story. I had an Indian friend who had an uncle visiting her in Los Angeles.

He got swept up in a raid and bussed "back across the border" to mexico. Why? because

he had dark skin, and the agents who got him were too stupid to realize that he was

babbling in hindi. So the poor guy was wandering around lost in Mexico, able to speak

neither English nor Spanish.

Scott

[canadian_wife 1,822]

Her K-1 expired the moment she came to the US. It is a single entry visa.

Do you have the NOA-1 from the AOS you'v sent in for her?

Good luck

[Wyld Blu 35]

Her K-1 expired the moment she came to the US. It is a single entry visa.

Do you have the NOA-1 from the AOS you'v sent in for her?

Good luck

She cannot travel outside the country unless she has either her AP (advance parole) finished or her green card in hand. If she travels before one of those two things are in place, she won't be allowed back in the US, and you will be back to square one, filing all over again.

-Blu-

[pushbrk 12,877]

She cannot travel outside the country unless she has either her AP (advance parole) finished or her green card in hand. If she travels before one of those two things are in place, she won't be allowed back in the US, and you will be back to square one, filing all over again.

-Blu-

Leaving the US without AP would be very bad. Fortunately, California is still in the USA. The K1 expiration is meaningless because it's actually "DEAD". If concerned, carry the receipt notice for having filed AOS, and a copy of your marriage certificate.

[Wyld Blu 35]

Leaving the US without AP would be very bad. Fortunately, California is still in the USA. The K1 expiration is meaningless because it's actually "DEAD". If concerned, carry the receipt notice for having filed AOS, and a copy of your marriage certificate.

LMAO...oops, missed the California part. LOL...travel away!

-Blu-

[JimVaPhuong 4,863]

Sorry for such a basic question, but I have sent the I-485 material in for my wife,

and her K1 visa is still valid for a few weeks. But we want to go visit her sister

for Christmas, and the visa and I-94 will definitely be expired by then. I don't think

the travel or no travel issue is even that relevant. The bottom line is, what if she

gets stopped with an expired visa? California is not a good state to be in while

speaking only Spanish with an expired visa. Should she carry a copy of the wedding

certificate around with her?

My other searches here only found the answer that "they should not be looking at

your visa in general", not all that comforting.

True story. I had an Indian friend who had an uncle visiting her in Los Angeles.

He got swept up in a raid and bussed "back across the border" to mexico. Why? because

he had dark skin, and the agents who got him were too stupid to realize that he was

babbling in hindi. So the poor guy was wandering around lost in Mexico, able to speak

neither English nor Spanish.

Scott

California has an estimated population of 3 million illegal aliens - the largest of any state. Local, county, and state police do not ask people about their immigration status when making routine contact. The only time they might check their status is when they are ready to release them from jail, after having arrested them for some other crime.

Los Angeles is a "sanctuary city". They have an official policy that it is not the city's responsibility to enforce federal immigration law. Illegal aliens in Los Angeles, and most of California, make no real effort to hide their immigration status. If you want to find some of them just go to any Home Depot or U-Haul rental center during normal business hours and you'll find them congregating near the parking lot entrance waiting for day jobs.

The kind of raids you're talking about are conducted by federal immigration officials, often with no assistance from local police. They don't drive down the street or go through shopping centers looking for illegal aliens. They raid facilities suspected of being used for human smuggling, mostly near the border with Mexico. They also raid businesses suspected of having large numbers of illegal immigrants. It's highly unlikely someone visiting the state would be in one of these places, and would get caught up in one of these raids.

Your wife will need to present her passport for identification when getting her boarding pass and when clearing the TSA security checkpoint. For a domestic flight, neither the airline ticket agent nor the TSA document checker is going to care about the traveler's immigration status. If the TSA document checker has any suspicions about the passport (if they thing it's fake or belongs to someone else) then they may inspect the entire passport and not just the bio page. In that case, there's a possibility that they might call ICE to come and verify the traveler's immigration status. Frankly, if you're going to have any problems whatever then it's likely to happen during a TSA screening. Once you get off the plane in LA then there is probably less chance of having any problems than any other city in the US, with the possible exception of San Francisco.

Unless your friend's uncle was working in LA when the business got raided then I find the story highly dubious.