Legal or Illegal!!!?

Question

If your passport is good and your Visa has expired..... Are you still able to live in the United States...are you legal here or illegal

Answer 1

illegally, You permission to be here is on your visa not your passport if it was your passport there would be no need to get a visa.

Answer 2

your passport gives u the ability to travel from one country to another for short periods of time, like on vacation. A visa gives u the right to live in a countryfor the designated time on the visa. In other words, when your visa runs out, you are an illegal

Answer 3

Upon the expiration of the visa, the passport holder is allowed to remain in the US if the number of days allowed upon entry has not yet expired. Overstaying will set in after both the visa expired and/or the number of days upon entry has been consumed when the entrant is already considered an illegal.

Answer 4

You need to get a grip. Your visa gives you permission to be in a country, not your passport. Your passport is only an identification document. It proves your citizenship. That's it.

Overstaying your visa is grounds for deportation and being banned from entering the country for any reason for a decade.

Answer 5

You need to get a new visa before the old one expires. You are illegal and now eligible for all those freebies Anti's get.

Answer 6

A visa must be valid at the time a traveler seeks admission to the U.S., but the expiration date of the visa (validity period/length of time the visa can be used) has no relation to the length of time a temporary visitor may be authorized by the Department of Homeland Security to remain in the United States. Persons holding visas valid for multiple entries may make repeated trips to the U.S., for travel for the same purpose, as long as the visa has not expired, and the traveler has done nothing to become ineligible to enter the U.S., at port of entry.


Staying beyond the period of time authorized, by the Department of Homeland Security, and out-of-status in the U.S., is a violation of U.S. immigration laws, and may cause you to be ineligible for a visa in the future for return travel to the U.S.

Answer 7

Well don't tell anybody that you have an expired visa or somebody might inform the Immigration office have you arrested and get a 100 dollar reward.

Answer 8

Illegal because the date of permission to be here has expired.

Answer 9

The general substantialness of a passport or visa rules. So, then, when any person chooses to roam about the U.S., tell them to keep both.

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Answer 10

Here's info:
http://www2.semo.edu/intadmit/visaexpired.htm