Advance Parole

Hi all,

If you have travelled outside of USA in the past few months, could you please share your experiences with re entry by using Advance Parole card?

I am a Russian citizen and I am thinking of using my AP to travel to Europe to meet my family for vacation. Still waiting for me interview since I have applied for a GC.

Thank you!

Hi guys!

I need your help in here, please share your experiences or anyone else you know that may have gone through the same process.
I came into the US (New York) with a student visa (F-1) which was only valid for 1 year, during that year i did an English Language school and then transferred into a College in the city. I have always been legal through a valid I-20 form. I am married to a Green Card holder therefore the process for my case took a very long time (over 3 years). My I-485 case for change of status was approved on August 1st 2017, and on 1st of October 2017 i got my combo EAD card (both work authorization and travel parole).
I want to travel for back home (in Europe) but i dont know if there will be any problems or issues for me when ill come back, my lawyer says its ok because i have always been legal on a valid I-20 form even though on an expired visa and there will be no problem for me to enter with the travel parole, i am very worried because i have heard a lot of stories and i dont know what to do.
PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!

Hey guys,
I am here in the US on H1B and my wife came as a dependent with H4. Both of us have received our AP document plus and EAD card. Now I have concerns about taking a temporary trip outside the US in case I have to do it because of the status change. I have read somewhere that when you enter the country on AP, you lose your H1B status, which in my case may also mean that my wife loses her H4 status as it depends on my H1B. You are no longer "admitted" but instead "paroled" into the country.
What would that mean for our pending AOS applications and my job?
My guess is that I would have to submit my EAD card to my employer for them as a basis for employment because I wouldn't have the H1B status any more. When I was applying for EAD, they instructed me to not use the EAD when I get the card and keep using my H1B status for employment because if the AOS application is denied, EAD privileges are lost, whereas H1B can be extended.

Does anyone have any experience on this change of status issue from and its implications for living/working in the US?

Hi Everyone,

Just wanted to know, can we still apply for an AP document? I am a DACA recipient. Your help will be grateful.

When filing the form I-485 (Adjustment of Status) I filed Application for Travel Document instead of Advanced Parole. I thInk I made a mistake. Will I be able to travel to see my family before getting my Green Card? Do I have to file Advanced Parole if I want to do this? The problem is that in the instructions it says that AP is only for emergencies, and I don't have any - I just want to see my family, haven't seen them in over 2 years. Do people travel only for emergencies before getting the GC? If I can file AP, do I have to pay the fee, since I already filed I-485?

Any help is appreciated. Thank you very much for your input,
Marta

Just wanted to share with you all-

My husband and I went to his hometown in Mexico using his EAD/AP card. We drove through San Ysidro POE. I presented my US passport and his Mexican passport w/ EAD/AP card and his sister’s green card. CBP took all of them took it to his booth and asked where I was headed (I was driving). I told him “Home” and he asked where “Home” was. Then he asked my husband where he lives. My husband said he lives with me. He asked if I was bringing anything in and I said no. I asked him where the nearest bathroom was because I made the mistake of buying corn from a street vendor. He laughed and said just to take the next exit and that we were good to go. He didn’t send us to secondary inspection. I was going to asked if we needed to go to secondary Inspection but I really had to go use the bathroom and since my husband already had a legal entry I wasn’t too worried about getting his parole stamp.

So happy to have gone on this trip and got back in safely. I was researching for any experiences related to Traveling with AP specifically through the border. I was very nervous because I wouldn’t know what to do if my husband was denied entry. Just a little bit of background- he has a ten year border crossing card and so all of his entries have been legal. He overstayed that visa since 2009, but applied for DACA in 2014 and had it when we applied for AOS. There was a two and a half month lapse between his DACA expiration and when he received his c9 EAD card. We took the chance to travel to see family anyways since his unlawful presence was when he was a minor and I read that it does not count towards the 3/10 year ban.

 Hope this helps you guys make your decision whether or not you want to use your AP to travel.

Hi everyone,
My husband's advance parole was approved last week and today he received his AP document in the mail. I'm pretty sure it's the AP since it states I512L Authorization for Parole and it has his picture at the bottom and a box for parole stamp. It was issued for multiple entries until 7/2019. Anyway, he only received one copy of the AP (I512L) document. Is that normal? We were always under the impression that they issue two documents one for CBP and the other for our records. Has that recently changed? I called USCIS and they told me to call CBP and asked them how many copies are required (um okay ???) they were closed so I called USCIS again and was told they only issue one copy. We just want everything to go smoothly when we return and not have any issues with CBP. Has anyone else received their AP document lately and did they only provide one copy and what was your experience with CBP? We plan on making an info pass as soon as one becomes available. We appreciate any feedback. Thank you!

Hi everyone! Just curious - I am going for vacation to Hawaii this September. It is absolutely clear for me that Hawaii is part of the United States, but my lawyer said that I shouldn't go because despite of the fact that it's a US territory, I'm still going to leave the continent, what can cause problems at the border. Does anyone had problem with traveling to Hawaii? My background - applied for AOS, my PD is 7/2017, I have an EAD and advance parole and now waiting for an interview (NY) , the only black point is that I came to the US with an Esta and overstayed it with like 2 months, before my PD. I was already married though to a US citizen before I came here with the ESTA. But because of this the lawyer doesn't recommend me to leave the country at all, however as far as I know, there is no such a statement that you can't travel to US territories what are out of the continent.

Thanks for any comments!

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