Advanced Parole - Getting back to the States

[Lisa-O 8]

In Montana if you are in your vehicle and if the car is running or even if the key is still in the ignition and NOT running you can get a DUI even if they were not physically driving the vehicle at the time of the DUI stop. If you fell asleep in your vehicle with the keys in the ignition or if the keys were in your possession you may still be arrested on a DUI charge because you were displaying physical control of the vehicle by possessing the keys to the vehicle.

Yeah same theory really, the UK is very strict with this sort of thing.

[Lisa-O 8]

Does not sound like a CIMT?

The immigration officers think so too, a couple have said I shouldn't have it, but I needed it for VWP?

[Harpa Timsah 13,258]

Sorry, I meant when checking in at the airport the clerk brought up that my B1/B2 visa was expiring. But as you said that's now obsolete then it should be ok. I read on another forum of 2 people who were in the same situation and had no problems returning, so both the information you gave me and the other first hand info has put my mind at rest. Thank you

So in that case the person must have just saw it and made a comment before realizing you had another visa.

People get different visas for different purposes. You are no longer a tourist so you do not need a tourist visa.

[nobbie 105]

Surely the point of AP is so you can come and go whilst waiting for GC.

As for CIMT have a look here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_turpitude

Drink driving is not a CIMT according to the table.

[Lisa-O 8]

Surely the point of AP is so you can come and go whilst waiting for GC.

As for CIMT have a look here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_turpitude

Drink driving is not a CIMT according to the table.

Thanks Nobbie!

That's a great example, I'm printing it out to take with me! So really this should have been explained when I first applied for the B1/B2, it all seems very vague as to what goes under the VWP and what doesn't, this has caused nothing but humiliation and embarrassment, and like I said before, even the IO's were a little confused as to why I had the B1/B2 visa!

[Harpa Timsah 13,258]

It doesn't matter now if you were still eligible for the VWP when you got your B2. Some people choose to get a B2 if they want for their own reasons, even if they can use the VWP.

The point is that you are now travelling on AP and that is all.

You brought this conviction up with your K-1 visa, right? You will need the paperwork for the arrest (or was it just a ticket?) for AOS too. But that has nothing to do with travel. You travel on AP.

When you get your GC you will travel on the GC, and it will not matter what you did for a B2 years ago.

If you become a citizen you will return to the US on your US passport, and it won't matter what you did for your B2 years ago.

[Boiler 45,541]

Thanks Nobbie!

That's a great example, I'm printing it out to take with me! So really this should have been explained when I first applied for the B1/B2, it all seems very vague as to what goes under the VWP and what doesn't, this has caused nothing but humiliation and embarrassment, and like I said before, even the IO's were a little confused as to why I had the B1/B2 visa!

Why did you think it was a CIMT? ESTA asks about CIMT'S?

[nobbie 105]

Why did you think it was a CIMT? ESTA asks about CIMT'S?

Probably because no one in this country (UK) know what the hell Moral Turpitude means, sounds like something hideous but can encompass almost anything.