I94 Not Stamped: Help!
Mar 25th 2007, 3:43 am
#1
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I94 Not Stamped: Help!
Hi,
I traveled to the US from India early this year. At the airport, the
immigration officer happened to misinterpret expiration date of my
passport to a date in a very near future this year. I was asked if I
am planning to renew it in the US or if I plan to go back to India and
get it renewed. The expiration date on my passport is not the one he
interpreted. However, it still is going to expire at the end of this
year. I explained this to him.
At the end of the conversation, I was approved the entry. To my utter
surprise later, I am seeing that my I94 does not have an expiration
date at all. I am not sure I understand why it was handed over to me
that way, with a missing expiration date.
Could somebody please advise me as to how to go about getting a valid
expiration date updated on my I94 now? I guess I can contact the
authorities at the airport and get this done. Any pointers would be
highly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Dhanu
I traveled to the US from India early this year. At the airport, the
immigration officer happened to misinterpret expiration date of my
passport to a date in a very near future this year. I was asked if I
am planning to renew it in the US or if I plan to go back to India and
get it renewed. The expiration date on my passport is not the one he
interpreted. However, it still is going to expire at the end of this
year. I explained this to him.
At the end of the conversation, I was approved the entry. To my utter
surprise later, I am seeing that my I94 does not have an expiration
date at all. I am not sure I understand why it was handed over to me
that way, with a missing expiration date.
Could somebody please advise me as to how to go about getting a valid
expiration date updated on my I94 now? I guess I can contact the
authorities at the airport and get this done. Any pointers would be
highly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Dhanu
Mar 25th 2007, 6:26 pm
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Re: I94 Not Stamped: Help!
Hi,
I traveled to the US from India early this year. At the airport, the
immigration officer happened to misinterpret expiration date of my
passport to a date in a very near future this year. I was asked if I
am planning to renew it in the US or if I plan to go back to India and
get it renewed. The expiration date on my passport is not the one he
interpreted. However, it still is going to expire at the end of this
year. I explained this to him.
At the end of the conversation, I was approved the entry. To my utter
surprise later, I am seeing that my I94 does not have an expiration
date at all. I am not sure I understand why it was handed over to me
that way, with a missing expiration date.
Could somebody please advise me as to how to go about getting a valid
expiration date updated on my I94 now? I guess I can contact the
authorities at the airport and get this done. Any pointers would be
highly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Dhanu
I traveled to the US from India early this year. At the airport, the
immigration officer happened to misinterpret expiration date of my
passport to a date in a very near future this year. I was asked if I
am planning to renew it in the US or if I plan to go back to India and
get it renewed. The expiration date on my passport is not the one he
interpreted. However, it still is going to expire at the end of this
year. I explained this to him.
At the end of the conversation, I was approved the entry. To my utter
surprise later, I am seeing that my I94 does not have an expiration
date at all. I am not sure I understand why it was handed over to me
that way, with a missing expiration date.
Could somebody please advise me as to how to go about getting a valid
expiration date updated on my I94 now? I guess I can contact the
authorities at the airport and get this done. Any pointers would be
highly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Dhanu
Mar 26th 2007, 4:13 pm
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Posts: 41
Re: I94 Not Stamped: Help!
If you are on F1-Student VISA then usually your I94 has D/S which means duration of stay. But if you are on H1B/L1B/B1/B2 then you should have a date mentioned! On what VISA did you enter US?
Mar 26th 2007, 8:08 pm
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Re: I94 Not Stamped: Help!
You aren't required to live up to your name you know. I would suggest, politely, that you stop and think before you next play the role of tough cop on the forum. It is not appreciated.
Rete
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Mar 28th 2007, 12:50 am
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Re: I94 Not Stamped: Help!
Moderators should be consistent and fair. I asked the D/S question, a reasonable response to the O/P's post. You let far worse slide, you may want to stop and think about that. I suggest that politely too.
Mar 28th 2007, 11:03 pm
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Re: I94 Not Stamped: Help!
On Mar 26, 2:08 pm, Rete <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Tough titty if you walked away from immigration without a date entered
> > on your I-94. Are you sure it has not got D/S written on it?
>
> You aren't required to live up to your name you know. I would suggest,
> politely, that you stop and think before you next play the role of tough
> cop on the forum. It is not appreciated.
>
> Rete
> AA
>
> --
> I'm not an attorney. This disclaimer is valid in NYS!
> Posted viahttp://britishexpats.com
second that. ole' slick has no clue his replies would end up in un-
moderated newsgroup.
> > Tough titty if you walked away from immigration without a date entered
> > on your I-94. Are you sure it has not got D/S written on it?
>
> You aren't required to live up to your name you know. I would suggest,
> politely, that you stop and think before you next play the role of tough
> cop on the forum. It is not appreciated.
>
> Rete
> AA
>
> --
> I'm not an attorney. This disclaimer is valid in NYS!
> Posted viahttp://britishexpats.com
second that. ole' slick has no clue his replies would end up in un-
moderated newsgroup.
May 7th 2007, 8:35 pm
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Joined: Apr 2005
Posts: 168
Re: I94 Not Stamped: Help!
This happened to my wife - its easy enough to do if you have kids and multiple documents to juggle. We dont live too far from the airport so we paid a visit and spoke to an immigration officer.
