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Yeah I had a study plan, inflation and other personal circumstances has made things pretty difficult though, to keep paying tuition while not working to maintain status. Also I had no idea you can still study without F-1? I thought that was a must?

Unfortunately I only have regular F-1, not F-1 OPT, the minimum full time enrollment is 12 credit hours, and I pay on a per credit hour basis. I have asked the international student office, and they said that I cannot use my EAD while attending school, and that if I use my EAD it would be a automatic termination of my F-1 status😭. I know that right now is a really terrible time to not have a back up status, but also the fact that I can't even work because of the F-1 status is putting me between a rock and a hard place, hence why I was wondering if I drop F-1 right now in order to work, would I be having issues with NTA/Removal due to the new USCIS annoucement.

I do completely get that, but also its been pretty difficult to pay tuition recently cus of changing circumstances, and I would like to starting working with my EAD to earn extra income. I am more worried about if being out of F-1 status despite having pending AOS status will get me in trouble with NTA/removal cus of this new announcement.

Hey guys, recently we applied for family based green card with concurrent filing of I-130 & I-485 in April, we got pending AOS notice pretty soon after and have already gotten the EAD and have done the biometrics. Because of changing financial circumstances I am planning to drop out of college, so I can save on tuition and start working on my EAD. I've talked to our lawyer a few months ago and he said that is okay as long as I am aware that I have no backup options to be able to stay in the US if my application gets rejected. But now with the new USCIS announcement, I have been reading a lot of conflicting information on if it's okay to drop my visa status, with some people saying that they got a NTA after revocation of their H1-B visa despite their AOS status. And some saying that people who have already submitted their I-130 & I-485 is not gonna be affected. If I drop my F1 visa would it get me in trouble regarding NTA and Removal? I havent had any visa issues and overstaying, or any criminal records, but I am concerned if dropping out right now would cause me issues. Thank you.