{"id":2311,"date":"2018-05-23T09:34:12","date_gmt":"2018-05-23T16:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swlgpc.com\/eng\/?p=2311"},"modified":"2018-05-23T09:34:12","modified_gmt":"2018-05-23T16:34:12","slug":"uscis-students-exchange-visitors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/uscis-students-exchange-visitors\/","title":{"rendered":"USCIS New Policy on Accrual of Unlawful Presence by Students and Exchange Visitors"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is changing how it calculates unlawful presence for F-1, J-1, and M-1 nonimmigrants and their dependents. These changes are designed to clarify how USCIS implements the unlawful presence grounds of inadmissibility. \u00a0In particular, individuals in F, J, or M status who fail to maintain their status on or after August 9, 2018, will start accruing unlawful presence on the earliest of any of the following:<\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>The day after they no longer pursue the course of study or the authorized activity, or the day after they engage in an unauthorized activity;<\/li>\n<li>The day after completing the course of study or program, including any authorized practical training plus any authorized grace period;<\/li>\n<li>The day after the I-94 expires; or<\/li>\n<li>The day after an immigration judge, or in certain cases, the BIA, orders them excluded, deported, or removed (whether or not the decision is appealed).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more information please click on the following link:\u00a0<a id=\"LPlnk811198\" class=\"OWAAutoLink\" title=\"http:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?f=001e2ww9-c53HAk6O0fZcBC50oYZSCPFteXlQ8pnH_7fpX7m78OHZwl9TuJi9FszZrEZHLnrEOY8St--R_-D97Rm7GUNhii5CCiKYEmbRcbiIvq4Dtq0Od164sJHwF6ALCQ_wDmJJJUuM_7ZSNgA-Q9TMv0eIEIHADRZ4AUETdGOh9JMZlka7lsxSfRqdYWMC20UUfu46IANqd1lWYlApjjkn-pxWOkulWV5kZOkgZBq-wP634f-oAgHlEtEgGLILV8sI1ZnUI7-DWuDC7hZcQNTciZzCZXiXkTsOO5CRoZRPOHosLSZ_McstJGfjA3bN35&amp;c=pShaZc8gZlcS1nlhGdMgeHGY-Km0jh8fwGfiqcDmJPUIuoqTqDCi3A==&amp;ch=62aNaD9GxSyvbKeFZ4h61VzEbkJx8XOw5Qq5FfFV9jlyiqs3harzrw==\" href=\"http:\/\/r20.rs6.net\/tn.jsp?f=001e2ww9-c53HAk6O0fZcBC50oYZSCPFteXlQ8pnH_7fpX7m78OHZwl9TuJi9FszZrEZHLnrEOY8St--R_-D97Rm7GUNhii5CCiKYEmbRcbiIvq4Dtq0Od164sJHwF6ALCQ_wDmJJJUuM_7ZSNgA-Q9TMv0eIEIHADRZ4AUETdGOh9JMZlka7lsxSfRqdYWMC20UUfu46IANqd1lWYlApjjkn-pxWOkulWV5kZOkgZBq-wP634f-oAgHlEtEgGLILV8sI1ZnUI7-DWuDC7hZcQNTciZzCZXiXkTsOO5CRoZRPOHosLSZ_McstJGfjA3bN35&amp;c=pShaZc8gZlcS1nlhGdMgeHGY-Km0jh8fwGfiqcDmJPUIuoqTqDCi3A==&amp;ch=62aNaD9GxSyvbKeFZ4h61VzEbkJx8XOw5Qq5FfFV9jlyiqs3harzrw==\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" shape=\"rect\" data-toggle=\"tooltip\">https:\/\/bit.ly\/2L3rUaW<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is changing how it calculates unlawful presence for F-1, J-1, and M-1 nonimmigrants and their dependents. These changes are designed to clarify how USCIS implements the unlawful presence grounds of inadmissibility. \u00a0In particular, individuals in F, J, or M status who fail to maintain their status on or after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2312,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":""},"categories":[8,11,38],"tags":[27,54,55,56,26,57,28],"yst_prominent_words":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2311"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.swlgpc.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=2311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}