Getting married under F1 visa and not returning to school

[Venezuela 0]

I am a graduate student under an F1 Visa. Recently my boyfriend (an American Citizen) and I (a foreign Citizen) discovered we are pregnant. We wanted to get married a year from now , but this resent news accelerated every aspect of our lives. Thus, we need to get married soon. I was attending school 6 hours away from where my boyfriend lives (were we are living now) and for obvious reasons I won't be able to continue my graduate education until some time after the baby is born. I am supposed to return to classes on January 14th. Instead I am staying with my boyfriend to start a family. My question is: How much time do we have before getting married? Can we get married on February 14th or should we get married before that so I don't go out of status before filling the AOS?. In other words, is it ok if I just don't go back to classes and get married in the next 40 to 50 days? or will I have a "penalty" for going out of status before getting married?

Thank you in advance for your help.

[Penguin_ie 5,997]

*** Moving from Student Visa to AOS from Student Visa as question is about the adjustment of status process ****

[Hypnos 6,578]

Follow the guide: http://www.visajourn...page=i130guide2

You can get married at any point you wish, but will only be able to file for AoS after you get married, once you have obtained a certified copy of your marriage certificate.

You will be out of status from the point at which your school terminates your status on SEVIS (which will probably be a few days after classes resume, they are very hot on this now) until you file for AoS. You can file for AoS whilst being out of status (as overstay is forgiven for immediate relatives of a US citizen) but being out of status makes you deportable.

Since ICE will know exactly where you are then I would not hesitate in marrying now and filing for AoS before your SEVIS registration is severed by your school; there have been cases here where F-1s were detained by ICE only a few weeks after they stopped going to school. This will not be a pleasant thing to happen, especially whilst pregnant.

Edited December 31, 2012 by Hypnos