How International Students can accrue unlawful presence?

00:01 A new USCIS policy can have devastating consequences on students who overstayed or violate their status

00:15 The new UCIS policy coming up August 9, 2018 that will change the way a students, F-students, J-Students, M Students are considered to be accruing unlawful presence in the US if they violated their status by not going to school or working

1:25 The only way they could accrue that if they were apprehended by immigration official, by a judge who determine that at that moment they accrued over presence.

2:26 but the essence of accrual of unlawful presence will happen at the time of that interview when that person willmeet the immigration officer.

3:37 If they are here now, before August 9th they should try to speak with an immigration attorney to see what they can do facing that change in and the upcoming date because after that they will be a accruing unlawful. And it’s important to make plenty because we have 180 days and then you have the one year. And it’s important to plan that

4:40 Keep in mind that this is a policy change that is coming in August 9th. It will be impacting all students that are here in DS status that currently are in violation of status

5:33 it’s important to understand and plan how you’re going to try to change your status. Once again students that are currently in violation of status are going to start accruing unlawful presence after August 9th based on this new memo

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