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For someone having entered the U.S on a visa, for example a B-2 visitor visa, changing to an F-1 student visa presented a very tricky logistical bureaucratic nightmare that often led to disastrous results. That’s why we’re very happy about USCIS’s latest policy decision - which eliminates the need for an extension application while waiting for an F-1 change of status decision. Read our latest blog to learn what this means for you.

We were about to report that the online exception was ending, but lo and behold, in the last 48 hours the United States has done an about-face, and will now be allowing international students to remain in the country in the fall, even if their universities are remaining on an online-only model in the fall.

This is a follow up on our 06/05/20 blog post “U.S. Citizens Married to Undocumented Spouses Sue Government for Not Receiving Stimulus Checks.”  We have received many inquiries from families who have been affected by the government's discrimination against U.S. citizen taxpayers.  Many are aski...

Ordinarily, students on F-1 visas are very limited in their employment opportunities. Typically international students are only allowed to work on their college campuses. Under 8 CFR 214.2(f)(9), however, USCIS has discretion to allow students on F-1 visas to request employment authorization to work off-campus due to severe economic hardship because of unforeseen circumstances beyond your control.

As more places are put into quarantine in the United States because of the Coronavirus COVID-19, universities are scrambling as they attempt to have solid plans in place for the more than one million international students who attend American universities.  In the last two weeks universities a...