| I-94—Arrival/Departure Record |
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Your I-94, a small white card usually stapled onto a U.S. visa page of your passport, contains an eleven-digit identifying number (called your departure number) that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) uses to keep track of your arrival and departure from the U.S. The DHS sometimes refers to the "departure" number as the "admission " number. There may be a date written in the upper right-hand corner of your I-94. You must leave the U.S. by that date or apply to extend your stay. If there is not date, but rather the inscription "D/S" (duration of status), you are admitted for the length of your program of study as indicated on your Form I-20, plus any period of post-completion optional practical training, plus 60 days. If you graduate before the completion date indicated on your I-20, you are considered to have competed your program of study and your I-20 is no longer valid. more
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