Hello,

So, my wife and I are in a bit of a pickle. We got married in October of this year, and she's been in the US since August 2014 on a student visa. Her visa is good until something like 2020, but her I-20 expires in mid-December, and she's not planning on signing up for another semester of school. It took us longer than we thought to get all of the paperwork together to file for adjustment of status, so we're just now getting ready to mail it all in, but we're wondering what to do if we don't hear back from USCIS by the time her I-20 is expired. If she goes back to her home country of China, then basically everything we've done up until now was pointless as we'll have to find another way for her to legally immigrate here, which could take a year or long. If she overstays her I-20 and then the application for adjustment gets rejected, though, isn't it possible that she'll have to leave and be barred from entry to the United States for a while for overstaying? Does anyone have any experience in this type of situation, or can anyone shed some light on this? It would be very greatly appreciated!

Thanks