How do I upgrade from an (expired) B2 Visa to Permanent Residency or to a F1 Visa?

I am 18 years old, so adoption is out of the question.


I have no immediate family in America.


I go to college, but I was told that in order to get a student visa (F1 Visa, which would at least allow me to get a job) I would need to go back to my home country and apply from there. Is there any way to do it without leaving the country?


What can I do to get permanent residency?|||"Upgrading" your immigration status isn't quite the same as getting a first class seat on an airline instead of sitting in coach.





It looks like the advice that you've been given is very good.





You cannot change status to F-1 if your B-2 status has expired.





You need to leave the U.S.





You need to apply for an F-1 visa outside the U.S.





If you are going to college as a B-2 overstay, you are subject to arrest and deportation.





It does not appear that you can become a permanent resident through any of the normal or exceptional ways of becoming a green card holder.|||Student visas strictly prohibit working. You have to prove you have sufficient funds for all of your school expenses, plus all of your living expenses, plus return transportation to your own country. And you can only apply for student visa from within your own country.





There is no way you can remain in the US and get any visa or residency. You must hurry up and return to your country! If your parents brought you here illegally or allowed your visa to expire as a minor child and if you return home before you turn 18 or as soon as you graduate from high school, your parents' illegal acts will not be held against you and in time you can apply for student or other visas if you qualify.





If you do not return to your own country immediately, then you are choosing as an adult to violate the law, and you are subject to arrest, detention, deportation, and 10-year bar to reentry.





If you ever want a chance to immigrate to the US or anywhere else, you will get out of the US immediately! You are already 18 y.o. and your window of opportunity is about to close.|||In your present circumstances you are subject to deportation and cannot obtain student status or permanent residence. You should go


home.