I hold a B1/B2 visa with multiple entries for 5 years. But since I got into a university, I will soon be applying for an F1 visa. If in any case, I get rejected for a student visa, what will happen to my current traveler's visa? And if I do get the F1 visa, can I have both the visas simultaneously?|||If you apply for an F-1 visa at a U.S. visa office, and your application is approved, you are allowed to have two visas in two different classifications at the same time. Inside the U.S., you can only be in one status at a time. You can have two or more visas in two or more classes simultaneously, but you cannot be in more than one non-immigrant classifications at the same time.
If your F-1 visa application is denied, the visa officer will have to decide what to do with your B-1/B-2 visa based upon your particular set of circumstances. He'll make a judgment. It's hard to predict what his decision will be. He can cancel it or let it alone.|||You must file I-539 Change of Non Immigrant Status, not applying visa. You apply visa and get visa stamp only at US Embassy/Consulate outside of US.
Therefore, if the application gets rejected, nothing will happen to your B1/B2. However you must leave immediately since more likely your I-94 will be expired that ti,e.
Once your F1 Status is approved, you still need to apply F1 Visa once you are outside of US to reenter back. And F1 will precede over your B1/B2. Only one visa status precede the other.
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