{"id":2343,"date":"2024-12-18T19:01:36","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T19:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brandnamaste.com\/law\/?page_id=2343"},"modified":"2024-12-18T19:01:36","modified_gmt":"2024-12-18T19:01:36","slug":"i-539-application-to-extend-and-or-change-nonimmigrant-status","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/brandnamaste.com\/law\/i-539-application-to-extend-and-or-change-nonimmigrant-status\/","title":{"rendered":"I-539, Application to extend and\/or change nonimmigrant status"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row el_class=&#8221;section-margin&#8221;][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;50px&#8221;][vc_column_text]What is the purpose of this form:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If you wish to extend your stay inside the States<\/li>\n<li>If you wish to change your status to another temporary status<\/li>\n<li>Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) residents<\/li>\n<li>F and M students applying for reinstatement<\/li>\n<li>V nonimmigrant applicants<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You cannot file form I-539 to request and extension of stay or a change of status to any of the following classifications:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>E-1 principal Treaty traders\/employees<\/li>\n<li>E-2 principal Treaty investors\/employees<\/li>\n<li>E-2 CNMI principal investors<\/li>\n<li>E-3 principal workers from Australia<\/li>\n<li>H-1B\/H-1B1, H-2A, H-2B, H3<\/li>\n<li>L-1<\/li>\n<li>O-1, O-2<\/li>\n<li>Q-1<\/li>\n<li>R-1<\/li>\n<li>TN-1 and TN-2<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>TIP:\u00a0 If your request is made on the wrong form USCIS may reject and\/or deny your case and they won\u2019t refund your filing fees.<\/p>\n<p>Make sure to complete the section about your full name, address, date of birth and current nonimmigrant status as we see this trigger rejection when done incorrectly.<\/p>\n<p>Make sure the form is signed in black ink and dated in the correct format: mm\/dd\/yyyy.[\/vc_column_text][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;50px&#8221;][\/vc_column][\/vc_row]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[vc_row el_class=&#8221;section-margin&#8221;][vc_column][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;50px&#8221;][vc_column_text]What is the purpose of this form: If you wish to extend your stay inside the States If you wish to change your status to another temporary status Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) residents F and M students applying for reinstatement V nonimmigrant applicants You cannot file form I-539 to request [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/pages.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2343","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandnamaste.com\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandnamaste.com\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandnamaste.com\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandnamaste.com\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brandnamaste.com\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brandnamaste.com\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2344,"href":"https:\/\/brandnamaste.com\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2343\/revisions\/2344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brandnamaste.com\/law\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}