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Filing F-1 to stay in USA and not age out [merged threads]

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I currently live in the USA on an E-2 visa as a dependent to my parents. I am 20 years old and at 21 I will age out, so that means I have to be independent on my own visa. I am starting to file for my F-1 visa. I am from the UK and a citizen. Will my interview be in the UK or here in the USA? Keep in mind, I am not a LPR of the USA. How long will it take for me to get my student visa?

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If I change from an E-2 to F-1 within the USA and get my F-1 STATUS accepted, what are the steps in obtaining the actual F-1 visa? What if I change status within the USA and go to the UK to get my actual f-1 VISA ? When I re enter will they let me back in? Or will they stamp my passport which is the visa? Or will I have to attend an interview and might get denied so then I cant re enter the USA?

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Similar-themed threads have been merged.

06-04-2007 = TSC stamps postal return-receipt for I-129f.

06-11-2007 = NOA1 date (unknown to me).

07-20-2007 = Phoned Immigration Officer; got WAC#; where's NOA1?

09-25-2007 = Touch (first-ever).

09-28-2007 = NOA1, 23 days after their 45-day promise to send it (grrrr).

10-20 & 11-14-2007 = Phoned ImmOffs; "still pending."

12-11-2007 = 180 days; file is "between workstations, may be early Jan."; touches 12/11 & 12/12.

12-18-2007 = Call; file is with Division 9 ofcr. (bckgrnd check); e-prompt to shake it; touch.

12-19-2007 = NOA2 by e-mail & web, dated 12-18-07 (187 days; 201 per VJ); in mail 12/24/07.

01-09-2008 = File from USCIS to NVC, 1-4-08; NVC creates file, 1/15/08; to consulate 1/16/08.

01-23-2008 = Consulate gets file; outdated Packet 4 mailed to fiancee 1/27/08; rec'd 3/3/08.

04-29-2008 = Fiancee's 4-min. consular interview, 8:30 a.m.; much evidence brought but not allowed to be presented (consul: "More proof! Second interview! Bring your fiance!").

05-05-2008 = Infuriating $12 call to non-English-speaking consulate appointment-setter.

05-06-2008 = Better $12 call to English-speaker; "joint" interview date 6/30/08 (my selection).

06-30-2008 = Stokes Interrogations w/Ecuadorian (not USC); "wait 2 weeks; we'll mail her."

07-2008 = Daily calls to DOS: "currently processing"; 8/05 = Phoned consulate, got Section Chief; wrote him.

08-07-08 = E-mail from consulate, promising to issue visa "as soon as we get her passport" (on 8/12, per DHL).

08-27-08 = Phoned consulate (they "couldn't find" our file); visa DHL'd 8/28; in hand 9/1; through POE on 10/9 with NO hassles(!).

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A visa is only for entering the US. If you do Change of Status in the US and don't leave, you won't have (or need) a visa. The next time you leave, you will need to get a visa before coming back.

There are two ways to enter into a status (like F-1 status): 1) be outside the US and enter the US on an F-1 visa, or 2) do Change of Status in the US, which will cost several hundred dollars and take several months to process. In either case (change of status or to get a visa), you will need an I-20 from your educational institution first.

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Quite a common route for those aging out, Status means you are landlocked, do you need a visa to travel?

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”

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A visa is only for entering the US. If you do Change of Status in the US and don't leave, you won't have (or need) a visa. The next time you leave, you will need to get a visa before coming back.

There are two ways to enter into a status (like F-1 status): 1) be outside the US and enter the US on an F-1 visa, or 2) do Change of Status in the US, which will cost several hundred dollars and take several months to process. In either case (change of status or to get a visa), you will need an I-20 from your educational institution first.

If i change my status here in the USA and then I went to the UK to get my visa, what are my chances of receving the visa? Which is safer? I do not want to be landlocked either.

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You have to get a visa if you do not want to be landlocked.

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”

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Hi.

Before you can apply for an F-1 visa, you must be accepted into a US college. The college will issue you an I-20. You are required to have an I-20 to apply for the F-1 visa.

To get the F-1 visa, you must prove that you have a foreign home that you intend to return to after your studies are completed. If you can't prove this, you are not going to get a student visa.

Once you have the I-20, you can choose to apply through the US Embassy in London or file for an adjustment of status. If you are refused a visa in London, your VWP privileges will end. You will be stuck outside the US. If your AOS is denied, you will need to leave the US within 30 days and your E2 status will be terminated.

Best of luck.

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If i change my status here in the USA and then I went to the UK to get my visa, what are my chances of receving the visa? Which is safer? I do not want to be landlocked either.

If you change your status, you do not need to go get a visa in the UK. You would already have F-1 status.

There is no "safer" way. It's the same.

What do you mean by "landlocked?"

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If you change your status, you do not need to go get a visa in the UK. You would already have F-1 status.

There is no "safer" way. It's the same.

What do you mean by "landlocked?"

Yes I would need to go to the UK to get my visa, because in the USA you cannot get a F1 visa, you can only change your status to a f1. In order for me to travel abroad outside the USA I need a visa. So if i changed my status here in the USA and went to the UK to get my visa, is there a chance of denial? Because if I get denied, then I cannot re enter the USA because I have no visa, just the status.

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Hi.

Before you can apply for an F-1 visa, you must be accepted into a US college. The college will issue you an I-20. You are required to have an I-20 to apply for the F-1 visa.

To get the F-1 visa, you must prove that you have a foreign home that you intend to return to after your studies are completed. If you can't prove this, you are not going to get a student visa.

Once you have the I-20, you can choose to apply through the US Embassy in London or file for an adjustment of status. If you are refused a visa in London, your VWP privileges will end. You will be stuck outside the US. If your AOS is denied, you will need to leave the US within 30 days and your E2 status will be terminated.

Best of luck.

I have been living in the USA for 15 years now and I am getting f1 so I do not age out. But most of my family still lives in the UK, so since most of my family still lives in the UK, will the officer still deny me? I do plan to come back to the UK after my studies.

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Change of Status is not certain

Nor is a visa

They is some secondary evidence that the Consulate do not like it where someone has a CoS and then seeks a Visa.

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”

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