J1 Visa overstaying?

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Whether you accrued unlawful presence or not is of no relevance to the question of whether you were "deported, removed or otherwise required to leave" the United States. You weren't.

Weirdly, whether you accrued unlawful presence also has no bearing on whether your presence in the country was in fact lawful. It's paradoxically possible to be unlawfully present without actually accruing unlawful presence. That's because the accrual of unlawful presence is only relevant to the automatic ban that is triggered by the accrual of unlawful presence.

You should answer "no" to the question about whether you were "deported, removed or otherwise required to leave any country." But if they ask you whether you've ever stayed anywhere beyond your authorized period of admission, you should answer "yes."

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