Will I be fined for staying in the United States after my visa expires?

If you stay in the United States after your visa expires, you will be fined. In addition, the consequences of visa expiration detention are:

1. Entry into the United States is prohibited for three years.

Those who overstay in the United States for more than 180 days and less than 1 year will leave the United States before being deported and will be prohibited from entering the country for three years from the date of departure.

2. 10 entry into the United States is prohibited.

Those who overstay in the United States for more than 1 year and leave the United States before being deported are prohibited from entering the country within 10 years from the date of departure.

3. Further affect the application for extension or change of identity, and the identity cannot be adjusted in the United States.

If you stay in the United States for more than the specified time, you cannot apply for an extension of your status or change to other non-immigrant status. In most cases, they are prohibited from adjusting from non-immigrant status to immigrant status.

However, the Immigration Bureau indicated that as long as foreigners submit an application for extension or change of status before their status expires, they will be regarded as legal status until their application is judged, even after the date on I-94.

4. Invalidate the current visa.

The immigration law has very strict regulations on overstaying. Even if they stay in the United States for one day, their visas will be cancelled and they cannot re-enter the country unless they get a new non-immigrant visa in their original country of residence.

You can't apply for a new visa outside your original country of residence.

The new law stipulates that foreigners who overstay must return to their country of nationality to apply for a new visa. For convenience, it is no longer possible to apply for a visa at a consulate near the United States. If foreigners can prove that they are in a different general situation, they can apply for a visa in a third country, but they need to get the consent of the consulate of the third country before making an appointment and submitting a non-immigrant visa application.