My I-94 expires at the end of the month because the expiration date of my passport. My O-1 Visa is valid until July 2022 and I just received my new passport.
Any tips on how I can get my I-94 extended/updated? Is it safe to leave the US and come back (Mexico, Canada etc.) even with the current administration and travel restrictions?
Thank you!
https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/se...
When you show up at a land border, you technically exit the US. Likewise, when CBSA turns you back, you'd be re-entering the US and going through US CBP. So for purposes of updating a US visas, the current ban is not relevant if you present at a land border.
It also runs the risk of Canada not letting you in and turning you back, and then the US not letting you in (if they decide your status, O-1 here but often would be TN, isn't valid, or for whatever other reason), and you.... get stuck in no-mans-land? I've always legitimately wondered what happens in that situation.
If you do happen to be a citizen or permanent resident of either Canada or Mexico, it would be safest to do your border-trip at your home-country border.
_Update_: Did some real quick research, and it appears that for US/Canada at least there are agreements in place that if one country rejects your entrance (at a land border) from the other country, the other country must take you back, but could find you inadmissible and put you in immigration custody pending removal. Fun times.