Q: Does leaving the US to visit Canada for 2 weeks count as sufficiently leaving the US when a M1 student visa is expiring?
I'm currently in the US on an M1 student visa which ends on July 1st and I have to leave the country before then. I'm wondering if leaving to temporarily visit Canada qualifies as leaving the US? Then also I have a US tourist visa that expires in 2022, I'm wondering if I can come back into the US on the tourist visa for 1 month?
A: It is more a question of your reentry to the US. Would you be coming back to continue your studies under the M1, or would you be coming as a tourist? If your entry from Canada to the US is only as a temporary visitor for visitor or pleasure, you should be able to enter on that. You might want to have passage out of the country already arranged.
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