One way vs round trip

[Kittentard 0]

One way plane tickets are more expensive. Can't we just do a round trip and then obviously not return. But will this cause questions?

[Pheebs1201 269]

As long as you cancel the return portion of your ticket when you arrived then you should be fine (this is important as you don't want them to think you have left and abandoned your AOS when you haven't actually boarded the plane). Alternatively, book the return date for wayyyyy in the future when you do actually intend to return for a visit (once you have your EAD/AP), or just have the return date changed for later in the future once you have arrived.

Hope that helps, good luck!

Edited November 22, 2014 by Pheebs1201

[TheCaptain 67]

As said above. Make sure you cancel the return portion of the ticket.

The airlines can sometimes incorrectly indicate that you in fact departed the country on the flight and this will cause your AOS to be marked abandoned without actually manually checking to see whether you were actually on the flight.

The manifest would have shown you as a registered passenger and then you have an uphill battle trying to convince USCIS that you never actually left and your petition is still valid.

[sma1488 155]

Not only that, many airlines have policies that specifically prohibit buying a round-trip ticket knowing you won't use the return portion. They rarely enforce it, but it's something to be aware of.

[TBoneTX 45,498]

The answers above are accurate, and dozens of other threads exist on this exact topic. For these reasons, this thread is closed to further comments.