B2 extended stay(i 539) requested for 6 months, but approved for lesser period

[Swaroop kolluri]

My in-laws came to united states on sep 18 2021 with B2 visa and they are valid to stay until March 17th 2021,and we applied for I539 extension in the month Feb 2022 requesting for additional 6 months due to covid situation in India. The I-539 was pending until last week and it's approved on 2023/04/26, stating valid until only 2022/06/14(for both of them) and My Father-in-law travelled to India on 2022/06/14 and where as my mother in law travelled to India on 2022/07/20.

It looks the Approval notice was based on my father in law travel and they didnt consider my mother in law travel.

Could you please assist if there will be any issue in the future at port of entry ? Anything  need to be followed up today ?

[pontevecchio]

They left before the decision on an appropriately filed Extension. Ideally, there is no problem. But since extensions above 6 months are not supposed to be granted, meaning a total stay of one year, It was very naughty of them to send a response more than one year later.

 

[newacct]

There should be no issues since they left the US while the extension of stay application was pending.