Mike B.

If you apply now you'll probably be okay. However, if you want to know all of the problems you could have, there are potential issues with having an expired I-94 and NOT having a non-frivolous application to adjust status submitted. Just today Arizona made big news by approving a bill that is expected to be singed into law that would have police jail people if there was a "reasonable suspicion" that they are unlawfully present in the United States. While you are NOT unlawfully present, I'd hate to be in Arizona without any evidence at all of your status and be dependent on some hillbilly cop who doesn't know the first thing about immigration understanding your strange circumstance.

I also have friends in law enforcement, but I think what TBone is trying to say isn't that everyone in LE is evil, but rather you are correct: they are just doing their job. People don't like to talk about it so bluntly, but the plain fact is that the job of an ICE agent is to deport as many people who can legally be deported as possible, just like the job of a beat cop is to assist the district attorney in getting as many guilty people convicted as possible. That's their job, and they do it. We're better off having people in law enforcement do their jobs as a whole, but as an individual you have to really look out when you're being targeted. That's what I took out of his post, and if that's what he meant, I totally agree.