since this question came up!! i have a fren who is out of status because his sevis was not released in the transferring process!! now we are in the end of the semester almost!! and now the problem is he didnt know he was out of status until couple of weeks ago and he had already paid for tickets to nepal!! the advisor is saying that he could give my fren a pending i20 and when returning back he would be re-instated so that he would also save 300 dollar of re-instating!!! and we are all wondering if it it safe to go to nepal without being in a valid status!! ??? can you guys shed some light ?