Traveling with AP while having an expired visa.

[Alexsed 2]

Hi guys,

I have a question regarding traveling with AP. Me and my wife filed for AoS this summer and I am expecting my EAD/AP card to show up within a month or so.

We are planning to go visit my parents back in the old country during christmas and then go to Berlin for New Years, but something occurred to me recently.

I came here on a F-1 visa and I am still on that visa and in status since I am in graduate school. The thing is that the physical visa (the one in my passport) expires in December, but as I understand it, I am still in F-1 status since my I-94 says D/S and I 've been registered as a full time student every semester.

WIll the fact that my actual visa is expired cause any probelms when we travel to or arrive back to the US even though I have my AP card? I can imagine problems both checking in when flying back and when being inspected at the border.

Am I being overly paranoid or is this something I should be concerned about?

[mat_buky 3]

Once your ead/ap combo card is been issued and you've received it you are good to travel and return back to the states.

[newacct 688]

That expired visa is irrelevant. The point of AP is to not need a visa to enter the US. You can't enter on that visa even if it were unexpired anyway, because F1 visa requires no immigrant intent.

[Alexsed 2]

That expired visa is irrelevant. The point of AP is to not need a visa to enter the US. You can't enter on that visa even if it were unexpired anyway, because F1 visa requires no immigrant intent.

Ah gotcha! Thank you!

[TBoneTX 45,285]

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