Posted by: coolbuddy July 13, 2015
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USCIS Officer was right. Your current status gets terminated. However, once TPS ends and you maintained your original status, you can get that status back. Once you are approved for TPS, you can't just travel. You need to get your AP documents. If you travel just with your Visa & I-20 without AP, your TPS gets cancelled too.
If I were you, I would apply TPS only, get AP, travel Nepal with AP, come back and apply H-1B next year. If you didn't make H1B next year...you might be out of status after may, 2016. Coz you will have only TPS status and not other status.
As that being said, the best bet is, apply TPS, apply H1b next year, if not selected in lottery, go for the graduate program (take evening classes and continue working under TPS).
The bottomline is: MENTION YOUR SEVIS ACTIVE TO GET YOUR STATUS BACK ONCE TPS ENDS.
USCIS Officer was right. Your current status gets terminated. However, once TPS ends and you maintained your original status, you can get that status back. Once you are approved for TPS, you can't just travel. You need to get your AP documents. If you travel just with your Visa & I-20 without AP, your TPS gets cancelled too.
If I were you, I would apply TPS only, get AP, travel Nepal with AP, come back and apply H-1B next year. If you didn't make H1B next year...you might be out of status after may, 2016. Coz you will have only TPS status and not other status.
As that being said, the best bet is, apply TPS, apply H1b next year, if not selected in lottery, go for the graduate program (take evening classes and continue working under TPS).
The bottomline is: MENTION YOUR SEVIS ACTIVE TO GET YOUR STATUS BACK ONCE TPS ENDS.