My wife is currently on F-2 visa. She has been admitted to MBA schools and therefore, she needs to get her own student visa.

Since, she is on F-2, she can't even study online in the fall. Contd.

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If anyone is in the same boat or has experience, could you please guide us towards options.

My visa status - just finished school, and will start my job on OPT, have been selected in the H1B lottery and my employer will file my H1B.

We were earlier thinking of going to India, but now that is not possible. Then we had thought we might go to Canada to change her visa status. However, with extended US - Canada border closure, it is looking increasingly difficult.

Change of status will also take 6-8 months as per school international office. She is quite keen to start her studies this year.

Any help/ideas would be greatly appreciated.

Congrats OP, why would change of status take 6-8 months, things should open up soon in india don’t worry, but you may want to stay put here till your H1 comes through

We were told by the international office that Change of status from F-2 to F-1, (i-539) will take 6-8 months. School starts in the fall, so we are not sure if we will be able to travel to India before that.

I’m pretty sure you can start school while the change of status is still in process, as long as you file before school starts. Have classmates who started bschool with change of status from H1B in process. Only downside is that you can’t leave the country until the process is done, but that won’t matter as much in the current covid situation.

Ohhhhhh sorry OP you might be right...

Slightly off tangent, but I think you can go to India(under air India’s VBM). Don’t know if that helps for some time with the visa situation?

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