Advance Parole

Has one had their DACA Advance Parole approved after September? I know USCIS said they were going to stop approving.

Thnanks for the info guys .

Hello everyone, happy to see some of us were still able to travel safely after sept 5 , thank god for that. Just like some of you may have felt, I too was devasted with the sept 5 announcement. I had applied for ap back on June 2017 and was anxiously waiting hoping to get approved (my status said my ap was received in June and hadn't changed) today 9-11-17 it was updated, now it says (it has been transferred to another office who now has jurisdiction and a letter has been mailed to me on 9-8-17) do any of you have a similiar status ? Does anyone know what this means? My case was sent to Texas service center . Any comments would be greatly appreciated, thank you in advance

Hi,

I used my AP card to enter back to US after hajj (coming from Saudi Arabia) on 09/10/2017. My AP is not thru DACA but thru marriage based Green card filing.

Port of Entry : IAD Washington DC
I was asked to go a different hall upon initial immigration round, the officer took few minutes and then allowed me in. Total immigration time less than 5 minutes.

To be honest, I was very scared to travel on AP, but Thank God, things worked perfectly fine.
I cannot comment on DACA applicants but for others its seems pretty safe to travel on AP.

my I94 allows my stay to be one year from date of entry.

Prelude:
I'm speaking on behalf of my husband's experience. I'm a US born citizen and he has DACA, originally from Hong Kong, he had an EWI (through Canada). He applied for advance parole last year in October 2016 to see his sick grandpa, he received an RFE April 2017 because the requested dates have passed. He was finally approved a week before we got married in May 2017 (best wedding gift ever). In total it took about 8 months. We decided to leave early September 2017 and made the plans, booked the flight, etc, then all this lawsuit stuff happened. My husband doesn't read up much on this stuff since he doesn't want to worry himself, but I do, more than I should so I started regretting our choice of days but the tickets were not refundable and his lawyer said there's nothing to worry about. Anyway! Things in the news kept looking bad, then good, then bad, to good, to finally last week when the rumors started that DACA would be ending. My stomach dropped and in my mind I started contemplating things. Without this trip he cannot adjust his status. We were putting our entire lives on the line.

The trip:
We left for HK on September 4th got there on the 5th. Woke up the next day and saw the decision Trump made during the middle of the night HK time. He ended DACA but my husband was safe for 6 months and we were relieved but afraid for our friends who have no way to adjust status. We spent 5 days in HK to visit his family and such. He hasn't seen most of them in 13 years.

The moment of truth:
We arrived in JFK this morning and we had to separate at immigration. I went through the citizen line and it went by fast so I was able to watch my husband through the glass barrier as he went through his line. The officer he got was pretty cool, this officer flirted with the previous visitor which was funny to watch as I sat there nervous and when my husband went up the officer was making jokes and made the situation less tense. I read my husband's lips saying "oh I don't have that". Turns out my husband was supposed to fill out a customs form on the plane but the flight attendant skipped him (make sure you get one). He went to the side to fill it out and went back and then was escorted to a separate room, I was able to follow him. We sat in this room that had a tall courtroom like desk with several officers on the other side. It was pretty intimidating. A man with his wife and daughter was arguing with officers because the little daughter wasn't being allowed in (she looked about 4 or 5). We saw the officers talk to each other saying "we should just let her go" which humanized them in our eyes. At the same time my husband saw his passport and AP being stamped and we breathed a sigh of relief. We waited another minute and they called him up and gave him the stuff without saying anything. So we left to the officer at the entrance who checked everything and said "you're good to go". We rushed out of there with smiles on our faces and my eyes started to swell up with tears. Took the escalator to an exit and hugged because this nightmare was over.

Advice:
Be over prepared. We had copies of everything and gave copies to my dad, left copies at our apartment and I carried the second advance parole on me. We made sure he remembered our travel dates (time difference made the days kinda confusing and looked through any questions they may ask, they ended up not questioning him at all.

Fill out that customs form they give you on the plane.

Be polite and don't get impatient. I learned the officers are genuine human beings who seem to care what happens to people, like the little girl I mentioned.

Don't wait so long to travel. We wish we left earlier but flights were drastically more expensive and HK in August is supposedly hell, but it would've been worth it to avoid the stress and gut wrenching fear.

P.S
Thanks to everyone on this website who has written their experience. It helped us so much. And as a citizen myself who has the privilege to not fear for her livelihood I will always fight for you guys. Every DACA recipient I know are incredible people. You're all so smart, persistent and are the personification of what it means to be American and achieve the American dream. Thank goodness the climate on this issue is shifting and more people are on your side every day. I will do whatever in my power, through voting and other things, to make sure you all can stay and continue making this country great.

Since the USCIS/DHS.gov states that they'll be issuing refunds for pending AP cases. . . has anyone with a pending case received a refund or a status update online (on the check case status, USCIS.gov)?

I got approved for advance parole, but where it say FOR CBP USE ONLY say parole period is valid until: one day. Parole purpose is: Daca parole authorization is valid for: one entry. I want to know if any one know what is the meaning of period is valid until one day. this is that days that I can be in my country of what?

I got approved for advance parole before September 5 , and I'm traveling to Mexico from Houston on September 18 to September 20 . I'm sooo nervous and scared I don't know if I should go .

My lawyer said I should be good and others say no it's to risky ... any advice or experiences after September 5 ???

Will be traveling from LAX to Guadalajara Friday night till Monday night! Thanks to everyone for sharing!

So basically GO DO IT!!!!

I was not worried about it whatsoever. I started crying on Tuesday after the announcement since I got my approval August 27th. Immediately everyone began to tell me not to go, especially my parents and siblings, but I knew ( besides their normal worrying) it was because they watch Hispanic/spanish news, where they ALWAYS try to scare you about everything.

I did my due diligence, read up on the memo, researched everything I found available, and decided to just do it. I don't have a criminal background, I have an accounting degree, work for the state, and more importantly, I pay taxes lol what else do they want.

Anyways, here's how it went::

Crossed over to Tijiana via San Ysidro, driving around 1030am

Came back to the border at 230pm

Went to second inspection to go inside office to get the stamp

After an hour and a half( several people in front of me), lady asked me for my work permit, told her it was in the car, that I didn't read anywhere that it was necessary. She allowed me to go get it, I returned and noticed my AP paper was stamped already. I sat back down, calls me up 2 minutest later for my fingerprints and picture, gives me my stamped paperwork and tells me I'm good to go.

Didn't asked where I went, what I did, or who I was with.

SO GO DO IT ALREADY, QUIT BEING SCARED AND TAKE CARE OF BUSINESS.

Please, never write on any websites that you "travel to adjust your status." It's NOT a good look. There's people from all avenues reading this stuff, many with ill intentions and some that will bring it to attention of those who'd hate to hear that a "loop hole" like this exists. We have to be smart about what we put out there. Especially now (after sept. 5th). REMEMBER, this is a hot topic at the moment. People are reading into everything more than ever.