Laborperm, Thank you for your prompt response and valuable suggestions. She is in difficult position right now. It happned in 2002 when when she had to drop a class because she thought she would not be able to get a passing grade. At the same time, she was suffered due to the death in her family. She registered for 9 hours in two semesters in row before 9/11 event. When the schools began to put all int F1 students in SEVIS system, the DSO office denied her to put in the SEVIS system and issue a new SEVIS generated I-20. It was partially DSO office fault too because they did not alert her or inform her about her not taking full-time course and its consequence. At that time they suggested her that they would give her new I-20 if she would leave the US and reapply for visa from her home country. At that time she was not in a position to travel because she was pregnant. The DSO office did her favor and allowed her to take classes and told her that they would not update her information in SEVIS and she could continue and finish her degree. However, she was not in position to take classes due to the birth of a child. So she did not registered for two semesters in 2004 and she started taking one class from 2005. She has not been in contact with DSO office since then. She is vulnerable right now. One time her husband tried to put her as dependent as F2 but his school's DSO asked about her status in the US. He explained about her status but the DSO asked him to bring a letter from her school's DSO office indicating her status. Her school was reluctant to issue a letter in the ground that she is not in a SEVIS system. Her husband plans to graduate in Spring. Most likely he would start a job and get H1 But he is too worried about his wife and not decided yet what to do. He can not send her to Nepal, neither he wants her to be in out of status. THey have a long term plan to stay in the US. They have credit card debts too. Please suggest if there is any way she could be brought back to status by whatever way. Any other folks have similar experience or have observed similar case. Please help