Extend 60-day grace period, F-1 visa, help needed!

[NYGuys2014 0]

Hello,

I just graduated this fall with my associate degree and I am not planning to continue to study. In my I-20, it says that the last day of school is 12/23/2013, which means that +60 days from that date I need to leave USA. Now here is the thing, I need to find a way to extend my legal time here as my apartment contract is until the end of May. I was wondering if anyone can give me a tip of what to do in order to delay my last "legal" day here in the USA to May. My F-1 Visa is good until the end of 2014 + I have a valid tourist visa.

I was thinking of the following options:
1. Go to my international advisor, explain her the situation, and hope that she will print a new I-20 with a delayed end date.
2. Fly out from the USA and enter using my tourist visa (I'm not sure it's the smartest thing to do as they might reject my entrance for some reason and then I'm screwed?).
3. Take the risk and stay more than the 60 day grace time and hope they won't find it out when I leave? (I don't want to do that)

If you have any thought that might help, it would be incredibly helpful and appreciated!

Please help,
Thanks!

[canadian_wife 1,823]

Certainly talk to the DSO at your school but she cannot issue you a new I20 as you are not attending school.

So...why can't you leave? I've left leases before, it is not a big deal. It sounds like you simply do not want to leave, yes?

good luck

[NigeriaorBust 4,087]

A lease does not give you any right to stay. Inform them you will be leaving early pack your things and leave when you are required to. You may have to pay for the place if they don't re rent it but they are obligated to look for a new renter

[NYGuys2014 0]

Hey Guys,

I do have more reasons to stay as one of you assumed, so I am looking to find a way to do that and not a solution for my renting problem, but thanks so far!

I was wondering if applying for OPT will provide me with the legibility to stay few more months until they will approve or rejection my application. If I will get the OPT, I might stay, if not I will leave.

Is that a good plan?

Thanks!

[jan22 3,056]

Hello,

I just graduated this fall with my associate degree and I am not planning to continue to study. In my I-20, it says that the last day of school is 12/23/2013, which means that +60 days from that date I need to leave USA. Now here is the thing, I need to find a way to extend my legal time here as my apartment contract is until the end of May. I was wondering if anyone can give me a tip of what to do in order to delay my last "legal" day here in the USA to May. My F-1 Visa is good until the end of 2014 + I have a valid tourist visa.

I was thinking of the following options:

1. Go to my international advisor, explain her the situation, and hope that she will print a new I-20 with a delayed end date.

2. Fly out from the USA and enter using my tourist visa (I'm not sure it's the smartest thing to do as they might reject my entrance for some reason and then I'm screwed?).

3. Take the risk and stay more than the 60 day grace time and hope they won't find it out when I leave? (I don't want to do that)

If you have any thought that might help, it would be incredibly helpful and appreciated!

Please help,

Thanks!

All three of your suggestions are, basically, fraud -- and you're asking a school official to help you commit it in the first one. Your school ends when it ends -- not when some trumped up date a school official writes on a form. If you're not enrolled in classes, you would be out of status anyway. The second one would have you misrepresenting your intent to an immigration officer -- you would not be entering for a visit, you would be entering to resume your life. And, the last one -- just staying -- clearly is against the law. When you applied for the student visa, you told the officer that you would leave the U.S. at the end of your studies -- well, you have graduated, and it's now time to live up to that.

And, BTW, it doesn't matter what date is on the !-20 -- it is when you actually finish your schooling. You said you "graduated this fall" -- the 60 day grace period started when you graduated (i.e., the last day of the semester in which you finished your studies), not automatically on 12/23/2013.

[canadian_wife 1,823]

So...why do you want to stay?

The 60 day grace period is to include applying for OPT. It won't take 60 days to have that answer.

Ok...so you get OPT, what happens if you don't find a job?

Good luck

[NYGuys2014 0]

All three of your suggestions are, basically, fraud -- and you're asking a school official to help you commit it in the first one. Your school ends when it ends -- not when some trumped up date a school official writes on a form. If you're not enrolled in classes, you would be out of status anyway. The second one would have you misrepresenting your intent to an immigration officer -- you would not be entering for a visit, you would be entering to resume your life. And, the last one -- just staying -- clearly is against the law. When you applied for the student visa, you told the officer that you would leave the U.S. at the end of your studies -- well, you have graduated, and it's now time to live up to that.

And, BTW, it doesn't matter what date is on the !-20 -- it is when you actually finish your schooling. You said you "graduated this fall" -- the 60 day grace period started when you graduated (i.e., the last day of the semester in which you finished your studies), not automatically on 12/23/2013.

You sounds like a very nice person I must say, haha. Well, it's true, I do have to leave by the end of my 60 days, but I am looking for legal ways to stay a little bit more, I am not talking about life time, but about a month or two. So don't take it personally (it sounds like you did) but I am looking for a LEGAL way ok? If I was trying to go against the law I would not look for an advice here to begin with.

I am still wondering if my last option, the OPT, would count, anyone?

Thanks.

[NYGuys2014 0]

So...why do you want to stay?

The 60 day grace period is to include applying for OPT. It won't take 60 days to have that answer.

Ok...so you get OPT, what happens if you don't find a job?

Good luck

I will apply to OPT, this is a legal option I can choose between 90 days before my graduation and until 60 days until after my graduation. That means, that once I submit my applications, and until I will get the answer, I will be legal. Now here is the thing, if I will get my OPT, I might stay that year and go to work, why not (if I won't find a job, I will just leave). If I won't get OPT, I would have a 60 days grace days to leave. So both ways I will find myself getting what I need.

What do you think?

[canadian_wife 1,823]

I will apply to OPT, this is a legal option I can choose between 90 days before my graduation and until 60 days until after my graduation. That means, that once I submit my applications, and until I will get the answer, I will be legal. Now here is the thing, if I will get my OPT, I might stay that year and go to work, why not (if I won't find a job, I will just leave). If I won't get OPT, I would have a 60 days grace days to leave. So both ways I will find myself getting what I need.

What do you think?

When was your graduation?

[NYGuys2014 0]

When was your graduation?

Less than a month ago.