To travel or not to travel? Please help

[AB loves AG 54]

You can travel anywhere in the USA without issue. Carry your passport and a copy of the NOA1 for filing the I-485(this gives you a year of legal status) until you actually receive your green card.

You can travel anywhere in the USA without issue. Carry your passport and a copy of the NOA1 for filing the I-485(this gives you a year of legal status) until you actually receive your green card.

Legal status is not limited to a year. You're legal while they're processing the I485, in my case 14 months and counting.

You can travel anywhere in the USA without issue. Carry your passport and a copy of the NOA1 for filing the I-485(this gives you a year of legal status) until you actually receive your green card.

Legal status is not limited to a year. You're legal while they're processing the I485, in my case 14 months and counting.

[Cathi 5,794]

Your visa was a single entry visa and expired the day you entered the US. As long as you travel domestically within the US you will be fine. As others have stated, just make sure to bring your passport and a carry a copy of your most recent documentation. Congrats on the arrival of your son!

[KayDeeCee 4,896]

Legal status is not limited to a year. You're legal while they're processing the I485, in my case 14 months and counting.

Correct. There is no time limit on it. You are in a period of authorized stay for as long as your I-485 is pending.

http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/87120.pdf

b. DHS has interpreted "period of stay authorized by the Secretary of Homeland Security" as used in the construction of unlawful presence in INA 212(a)(9)(B)(ii) to include:

...

(5) For aliens who have properly filed an application for adjustment of status to that of a lawful permanent resident (LPR), the entire period of the pendency of the application, even if the application is subsequently denied or abandoned, provided the alien (unless seeking to adjust status under NACARA or HRIFA) did not file for adjustment "defensively" (i.e., after deportation proceedings had already been initiated)

[Jawaree 718]

Yes you can travel to any state as someone suggest have a ccopy

of approved docs...I've seen CBP spot checking in Miami, Houston

& Dallas airport B4 when traveling...and definitely if on Greyhound ,

or Amtrak....but yes you can travel just don't go outside the US...Go

enjoy your kid

[Tahoma 2,292]

As others have correctly pointed out, your legal status is not limited to one year.

I hope you enjoy SF as much as my wife and I enjoy it.

[Ligaya10 2]

Many thanks for all your help and replies!