The safest path forward is to file the application for COS to H-4 before the wife's employer terminates the J-1/SEVIS record. Proactive filing...

The start date of 06/18/2026 on your H-1B transfer approval is almost certainly an error: you were protected by cap-gap/portability principles from...

The I-94 not showing "E-2S" is the root problem and must be fixed first. Once it reflects E-2S, spouse can work without an EAD. The EAD is optional...

Your background sounds well-suited for an EB-2 NIW petition. A P.E. license combined with DOT bridge inspection work and a focus on public safety...

No" is defensible and correct: a nunc pro tunc extension approval retroactively cures the gap, so you were in authorized stay, not an overstay. But...

In theory a pending I-485 does not doom the concurrent I-129 E-2 extension: USCIS adjudicates them separately, and E-2's "intent to depart upon...

Using an I-485-based EAD to keep working will not jeopardize the pending E-2 extension on its own, but it can effectively moot or undercut the E-2...

Yes, once your wife becomes a lawful permanent resident (LPR/Green Card holder), she can sponsor you as her spouse under the F2A preference...

What you listened to is wrong and am sure by the wrong people. Know this: a divorce before the conditions are removed on the 2 year temporary...

Hogwash. "Police" in Chicago hardly ever operates to begin with... In any event, a hotel front-desk worker threatening to "call the cops" over...