http://www.immigration-professor.com Call For Consultation... 310-384-0200 Fri, 07 Jan 2011 02:38:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.3 http://www.immigration-professor.com/about/our-staff/robert-a-perkins/comment-page-1#comment-7 Legal Loophole Allows Out of Status Students to Get Work Visa | The Immigration Professor Thu, 29 Oct 2009 00:35:56 +0000 http://www.immigration-professor.com/?page_id=9#comment-7 [...] Being a full time international student can be expensive and maintain student status isn’t always easy. Sometimes, through of fault of their own, an international student will fall out of status. Falling out of status can happen for a variety of reasons including but not limited to running out of funds. For example, in one recent case our office encountered an international student who was traveling to Canada in 2002 got stuck there and could not re-enter the USA because our government was having technical problems with the SEVIS student computer system. By the time he was able to re-enter the United States, the semester was already halfway over and the school would not allow him to enroll. Later, he found out that his failure to enroll — which was not his fault — was an immigration status violation making him out of legal status. He did not know what to do until he consulted with The Immigration Professor, Attorney Robert A. Perkins. [...] [...] Being a full time international student can be expensive and maintain student status isn’t always easy. Sometimes, through of fault of their own, an international student will fall out of status. Falling out of status can happen for a variety of reasons including but not limited to running out of funds. For example, in one recent case our office encountered an international student who was traveling to Canada in 2002 got stuck there and could not re-enter the USA because our government was having technical problems with the SEVIS student computer system. By the time he was able to re-enter the United States, the semester was already halfway over and the school would not allow him to enroll. Later, he found out that his failure to enroll — which was not his fault — was an immigration status violation making him out of legal status. He did not know what to do until he consulted with The Immigration Professor, Attorney Robert A. Perkins. [...]

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