Legal Question in Immigration Law in Kentucky

Re: Imigration

Dear Inquirer:

Your friend will be out of status when he stops attending school full time. He may seek reinstatement to F-1 status later, based on his medical disability, assuming he recovers and desires to return to school.

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Re: Imigration

Unfortunately, a student visa requires a certain minimal number of credits per semester or quarter to remain in status and illness is not a grounds for not remaining in status. For people within the US there is no general visa category for receiving medical treatment, although transfer to visitor status prior to falling out of status may theoretically be an option if no treatment is available in the home country and the applicant can establish the means to pay for the treatment in the US and return home afterwards. Otherwise, this is one of those heartbreak situations where there is nothing straightforward that can be done to obtain a visa for treatment under current law and regulations.

Whether any other visa category is possibly applicable depends in part on the country of nationality, which was not provided.

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