I built a visa timeline planner because I got tired of being scared of a calendar

2026-07-29 · Yusuf Gadelrab

I'm on TD status. It ends when I turn 21. I'm 20. There's a whole sequence of things that have to happen in a specific order before then, and every explanation of that sequence I could find was either a law firm's marketing page or a forum post from 2019.

So I put the timeline on a page. Filing windows, what depends on what, how the pieces interact with an internship search that starts a year before the internship.

It's free, it collects nothing, and it is emphatically not legal advice. It's a planning aid. I still take the real questions to the free immigration attorney my school provides, which is a resource an enormous number of international students don't know they have.

https://yusuf-gadelrab.github.io/visa.html

If you're an international student in the US, two things: find out today whether your school has a free immigration attorney, and put your own deadlines on one page where you can look at them. The anxiety is mostly from the fog, not the dates.