I want to know how my family can stay in USA for completing the highschool of my daughters

[Sanju257 0]

I have been transferred USA through L1 Visa by my native country's company 2-1/2 years back. I came here with my family ( wife and my 2 daughters). Now I have been transferred to my native country. However my family is in USA because my elder daughter is studying in XI grade. My family's I94 will be expired up to July 2019. I want to complete my daughters XII grade( highschool) from USA. So I want to know how my family can stay there up to June 2020. Please help me.

[Roel 7,193]

13 minutes ago, Sanju257 said:

I have been transferred USA through L1 Visa by my native country's company 2-1/2 years back. I came here with my family ( wife and my 2 daughters). Now I have been transferred to my native country. However my family is in USA because my elder daughter is studying in XI grade. My family's I94 will be expired up to July 2019. I want to complete my daughters XII grade( highschool) from USA. So I want to know how my family can stay there up to June 2020. Please help me.

If your visa is expiring and you're being transferred, then it means that your family have to go with you.  They won't have a legal status. You should have known that L1 visa won't guarantee you any kind of long term residence in the US.

Edited May 16, 2019 by Roel

[carmel34 3,650]

There's no way for them to stay in the US past July.  Your wife and daughters will have no legal status in the US after the I-94 expires so I suggest that they start planning their move and travel plans to join you in their home country.

[Ben&Zian 4,398]

Like above, they would have to have some other type of merit to remain, just to finish high school isn't one. This is one of the 'downsides' of work visas and such like that because they are just ment to be temporary, not lifetime.

[SusieQQQ 11,587]

Do they even have legal status now? If they are dependents of the L1 and the L1 is no longer working in the US, doesn't that invalidate their L-dependent status? (I am reading "Now I have been transferred to my native country. " to mean OP has already moved back)

 

You can apply for a student visa for your children to finish school, bearing in mind the restrictions (max one year public school at full unsubsidized cost, or private school) but I can't see how your wife can stay behind. Alternatively most countries have American international schools, is there one near where you will be moving?

Edited May 16, 2019 by SusieQQQ

[WeGuyGal 1,052]

Your entire family's L-dependent status expires when you're no longer working in the US. She has to return to her native country India when that happens.