What to do if your visa expires abroad

If your visa expires abroad, you must go to the local immigration bureau in time to apply for extension procedures.

After your foreign visa expires, if you need to extend your stay due to some special reasons:

1. If you must extend your stay, you should do so within the valid stay period allowed by the visa. Within the period, submit an extension application to the country’s immigration agency in advance. If there are good reasons, you may be granted an extension. If not, you must return to your home country to reapply for a legal entry visa before you can legally travel again.

2. If the applicant does not apply for extension within the period of stay, and the validity period and period of stay of the visa have expired, and the applicant has not left the country, then he must present the corresponding valid certification materials. Apply to the country of destination for extension procedures. So that they will not be treated as illegal residents and punished.

Extended information:

1. Visa validity period

The visa validity period refers to the time from the date of visa issuance to the period during which the holder is allowed to enter the country. the term. Beyond this period, the visa will be invalid. Visa holders should enter the country after the visa effective date and leave the country before the visa expiration date (including the same day).

Note:

The validity period of a visa is shorter than a few days to one month, such as a transit visa and a single tourist visa;

The validity period of a visa is long and can be up to one month. years, five years or even ten years, such as employment and study visas or multi-year multiple-entry visas.

2. Visa Stay Period

The visa stay period refers to the maximum period of time the holder is allowed to stay after entering the country. The difference between it and the validity period of the visa is that the validity period of the visa refers to the period of use of the visa and is the "validity period" of the visa itself.

3. Consequences of overstaying a U.S. visa:

Overstaying means that a non-immigrant person’s stay in the United States exceeds the stay time specified by the immigration officer.

The consequences are divided into bans from entering the United States for 3 years, bans from entering the United States for 10 years, etc., and the visa is invalid, and you cannot apply for a new visa in other countries other than the country of original residence. The consequences are determined based on the length of overstay.

If the overdue time is within 180-365 days, you will be prohibited from entering the country within 3 years starting from the day of departure. If you are overdue for more than one year, you will be prohibited from entering the country within 10 years from the day you leave the country.

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